RunPod Secure Cloud vs Spheron
11 GPUs in common. RunPod Secure Cloud is cheaper on 5, Spheron on 6; on average Spheron is 4% above RunPod Secure Cloud.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | RunPod Secure Cloud | Spheron | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B300 | $7.89 | $10.21 | RunPod Secure Cloud −23% | $7.85 |
| NVIDIA B200 | $6.79 | $9.36 | RunPod Secure Cloud −27% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $4.59 | $4.79 | RunPod Secure Cloud −4% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $3.49 | $2.64 | Spheron −24% | $3.50 |
 AMD MI300X | $2.39 | $3.59 | RunPod Secure Cloud −33% | $2.59 |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | $2.14 | $2.27 | RunPod Secure Cloud −6% | $2.05 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.59 | $1.43 | Spheron −10% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $1.09 | $0.96 | Spheron −12% | $1.47 |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 | $0.99 | $0.68 | Spheron −31% | $0.69 |
| NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada | $0.84 | $0.78 | Spheron −7% | $0.82 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | $0.74 | $0.72 | Spheron −3% | $0.60 |
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Questions
Is RunPod Secure Cloud or Spheron cheaper?
On the 11 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, RunPod Secure Cloud is cheaper on 5 and Spheron on 6. On average Spheron is 4% more expensive than RunPod Secure Cloud across those GPUs. The table shows each one; the gap is rarely uniform.
What does one have that the other does not?
RunPod Secure Cloud alone prices H200 NVL, H100 NVL, H100 PCIe, L40, RTX 5080, RTX A6000, RTX 4080, RTX 3090, L4, A40, RTX A5000, RTX A4000; Spheron alone prices GH200. They are different kinds of provider — RunPod Secure Cloud is a neocloud, Spheron a marketplace — which is most of why the prices differ.
Where do these prices come from?
RunPod Secure Cloud: Public GPU-type listing. Secure Cloud is RunPod's own datacentre capacity, quoted per GPU-hour. 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.