Runpod Serverless Flex pricing: why VRAM alone is the wrong comparison
Runpod's Flex tiers range from $0.58/hour 16GB classes to high-end B300 capacity. The useful decision is model fit, hardware class, and measured cost per job—not VRAM alone.
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AWS EC2 Capacity Blocks — p6-b300.48xlarge — US East (N. Virginia)
AWS EC2 Capacity Blocks prices p6-b300.48xlarge at $129.168 per instance-hour ($16.146 per B300 accelerator-hour) effective October 7, 2026, with 8 NVIDIA B300 GPUs and 2.1 TB aggregate HBM. Capacity Blocks are reserved for a defined duration and charged at the prevailing reservation rate at purchase; OS charges can apply separately.
CURRENT PRICE$129.17 / hrNative listed value
Pricing
Pricing details
Secondary price terms only; primary pricing stays in the deal summary.
BILLINGOther
Fit & constraints
Fit & constraints
Use-case fit and limitations from the existing resource record.
AVAILABILITY
Available
Material changes only
Price intelligence
Recorded price-change events provide the comparison; no synthetic market reference is created.
Previous$112.32Recorded history
Current$129.17Same metric · same currency
Recorded change+15%USD/hour
| Observed at | Change type | Previous | Current | Metric | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-07 | PRICE RISE | $112.32 | $129.17 | USD/hour | Source ↗ |
Resource facts
Key specs
Non-price resource facts only; pricing, history, and evidence stay in their own sections.
GPU MODELNVIDIA B300
GPU COUNT8
VRAM2,100 GB
LOCATIONUS East (N. Virginia)
Trust layer
Verified evidence
Decision visuals remain traceable to the existing source and verification record.
Independent ranking · native prices · evidence-linked · commercial relationships isolated from scoring and publication.