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 8x
DigitalOcean offers an on-demand H100 8x GPU Droplet at US$35.28/hour, with 8 NVIDIA H100 GPUs (640 GB total GPU memory), 160 vCPUs, 1,920 GiB RAM and a 2,046 GiB NVMe boot disk. Billing is per second with a 60-second or US$0.01 minimum, and powered-off GPU Droplets continue to incur charges until destroyed.
CURRENT PRICE$35.28 / hrNative listed value
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GPU MODELNVIDIA H100
GPU COUNT8
VRAM640 GB
VCPU160
RAM1,920 GB
STORAGE2,046 GB NVMe
LOCATIONNYC2, AMS3, TOR1
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