RunPod Community Cloud vs Spheron
10 GPUs in common. RunPod Community Cloud is cheaper on 9, Spheron on 1; on average Spheron is 89% above RunPod Community Cloud.
Prices collected 2026-10-11
Every GPU both price
| GPU | RunPod Community Cloud | Spheron | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B200 | $5.98 | $11.06 | RunPod Community Cloud −46% | $6.99 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $3.59 | $5.52 | RunPod Community Cloud −35% | $4.50 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $2.69 | $2.64 | Spheron −2% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | $1.69 | $2.35 | RunPod Community Cloud −28% | $2.23 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.29 | $1.48 | RunPod Community Cloud −13% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $0.79 | $0.96 | RunPod Community Cloud −18% | $1.29 |
| NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada | $0.74 | $0.78 | RunPod Community Cloud −5% | $0.89 |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 | $0.69 | $0.78 | RunPod Community Cloud −12% | $0.81 |
 AMD MI300X | $0.50 | $3.59 | RunPod Community Cloud −86% | $3.02 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | $0.34 | $0.48 | RunPod Community Cloud −29% | $0.48 |
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Questions
Is RunPod Community Cloud or Spheron cheaper?
On the 10 GPUs both price on 2026-10-11, RunPod Community Cloud is cheaper on 9 and Spheron on 1. On average Spheron is 89% more expensive than RunPod Community Cloud across those GPUs. The table shows each one; the gap is rarely uniform.
What does one have that the other does not?
RunPod Community Cloud alone prices B300, H100 NVL, H100 PCIe, A100 40GB, L40, H200 NVL, L4, RTX 5080, A40, RTX A6000, RTX 4080, RTX 3090, V100 16GB, RTX A4000, RTX A5000; Spheron alone prices GH200.
Where do these prices come from?
RunPod Community Cloud: Third-party hosts renting through RunPod. Quoted per GPU-hour; a listing may have no hosts behind it. Spheron: Public pricing page, parsed. Per-GPU price is the listed per-GPU rate, or the node price divided by GPU count. Prices near reserved, committed or contract terms are discarded; anything outside a plausible range for the GPU is discarded. Both are read every six hours; nothing is estimated.