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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DigitalOcean GPU Droplet — H100 1x
DigitalOcean's on-demand NVIDIA HGX H100 GPU Droplet costs $4.41 per GPU-hour with 80 GB VRAM, 20 vCPUs, 240 GiB RAM, a 720 GiB NVMe boot disk, 5 TiB scratch disk and 15,000 GiB included transfer. Billing is per second, but the provider's official pages conflict on whether the minimum charge covers 5 minutes or 60 seconds/$0.01.
CURRENT PRICE$4.41 / hrNative listed value
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BILLINGOther
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KEY RISK
Official DigitalOcean pages conflict on minimum GPU billing period (5 minutes versus 60 seconds/$0.01); verify checkout terms. Powered-off GPU Droplets continue billing.
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GPU MODELNVIDIA H100
GPU COUNT1
VRAM80 GB
VCPU20
RAM240 GB
STORAGE720 GB NVMe
LOCATIONNYC2, AMS3, TOR1
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