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Oracle Cloud vs RunPod Community Cloud

10 GPUs in common. Oracle Cloud is cheaper on 0, RunPod Community Cloud on 10; on average RunPod Community Cloud is 71% below Oracle Cloud.

Prices collected 2026-09-18

Oracle Cloud
12GPUs · +121.8% vs market
RunPod Community Cloud
25GPUs · -30.8% vs market
In common
10
Kind
hyperscaler · marketplace

Every GPU both price

GPUOracle CloudRunPod Community CloudDifferenceMarket
NVIDIANVIDIA B300$15.00$6.94RunPod Community Cloud −54%$7.85
NVIDIANVIDIA B200$14.00$5.98RunPod Community Cloud −57%$6.59
NVIDIANVIDIA H200$10.00$3.59RunPod Community Cloud −64%$4.45
NVIDIANVIDIA H100 SXM$10.00$2.69RunPod Community Cloud −73%$3.50
AMDAMD MI300X$6.00$0.50RunPod Community Cloud −92%$2.59
NVIDIANVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell$4.50$1.69RunPod Community Cloud −62%$2.05
NVIDIANVIDIA A100 80GB$4.00$1.29RunPod Community Cloud −68%$1.79
NVIDIANVIDIA L40S$3.50$0.79RunPod Community Cloud −77%$1.47
NVIDIANVIDIA A100 40GB$3.05$1.00RunPod Community Cloud −67%$1.48
NVIDIANVIDIA V100 16GB$2.95$0.21RunPod Community Cloud −93%$0.79

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Questions

Is Oracle Cloud or RunPod Community Cloud cheaper?

On the 10 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, Oracle Cloud is cheaper on 0 and RunPod Community Cloud on 10. On average RunPod Community Cloud is 71% cheaper than Oracle Cloud across those GPUs. The table shows each one; the gap is rarely uniform.

What does one have that the other does not?

Oracle Cloud alone prices MI355X, A10; RunPod Community Cloud alone prices H100 NVL, H100 PCIe, RTX 6000 Ada, L40, RTX 5090, H200 NVL, L4, RTX 5080, A40, RTX 4090, RTX A6000, RTX 4080, RTX 3090, RTX A4000, RTX A5000. They are different kinds of provider — Oracle Cloud is a hyperscaler, RunPod Community Cloud a marketplace — which is most of why the prices differ.

Where do these prices come from?

Oracle Cloud: OCI's public price-list API (the cost estimator's feed), pay-as-you-go, per GPU-hour as listed. One price worldwide. RunPod Community Cloud: Third-party hosts renting through RunPod. Quoted per GPU-hour; a listing may have no hosts behind it. Both are read every six hours; nothing is estimated.