Pricing

Explore pricing options for Pods, including on-demand, savings plans, and spot instances.

Runpod offers custom pricing plans for large scale and enterprise workloads. Contact our sales team to learn more.

Pods are billed by the second for compute and storage, with no fees for data ingress or egress. Find the latest GPU pricing on the Runpod console during Pod deployment.

Pricing options

	On-demand	Savings plan	Spot
Pricing	Standard hourly rate	Discounted (prepaid)	Lowest available
Commitment	None	3 or 6 months upfront	None
Interruptible?	No	No	Yes (5-second warning)
Best for	Development, testing, variable workloads	Long-running production workloads	Fault-tolerant batch processing

On-demand

Pay-as-you-go pricing for non-interruptible instances. Resources are dedicated to your Pod and cannot be displaced by other users.

You must have at least one hour’s worth of credits for your selected configuration to deploy an on-demand instance.

Savings plans

Commit to a 3-month or 6-month term upfront for significant discounts on compute costs. When you stop a Pod, the savings plan automatically applies to your next deployment of the same GPU type.

Savings plans only cover GPU compute costs—storage costs are billed at standard rates. Maintain a credit balance for storage, or your Pods will stop when funds run out. Plans are non-refundable and have fixed expiration dates.

Spot instances

Access spare compute capacity at the lowest prices. Spot instances are interruptible—they can be terminated with only a 5-second warning (SIGTERM, then SIGKILL) if capacity is needed elsewhere.

Save your work frequently to volume disk or cloud storage. Your volume disk is retained even if your Spot instance is interrupted.

Storage pricing

Storage type	Running Pod	Stopped Pod	Notes
Container disk	$0.10/GB/month	Not charged	Temporary; erased when Pod stops
Volume disk	$0.10/GB/month	$0.20/GB/month	Persistent; retained until Pod deleted
Network volume	$0.07/GB/month (< 1TB)	$0.07/GB/month	Permanent; portable between Pods
	$0.05/GB/month (> 1TB)	$0.05/GB/month

Storage is billed per-second for container and volume disks, and hourly for network volumes. You are not charged if the host is unavailable.

Runpod is not designed for long-term cloud storage. Back up critical data to your local machine or a dedicated storage provider.

Account limits

• Minimum balance: If your balance covers less than 10 seconds of remaining runtime, Runpod stops all Pods to preserve data volumes. Set up automatic payments to avoid interruptions.
• Spend limit: Default limit of $80/hour across all resources. Contact support to increase.

Track your costs

• Savings plans: Monitor active plans, commitment periods, and expiration dates in the Savings plans section.
• Billing: Track usage and charges in the Billing section.