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 — MI300X 1x
DigitalOcean on-demand AMD MI300X GPU Droplet is listed at USD 2.59 per GPU-hour for one 192 GB GPU, with 20 vCPUs, 240 GiB system RAM, 720 GiB NVMe boot disk, 5 TiB NVMe scratch disk and 15,000 GiB transfer. GPU Droplets bill per second, but the official pricing and documentation disagree on the minimum billable duration; powered-off Droplets remain billable until destroyed.
CURRENT PRICE$2.59 / hrNative listed value
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BILLINGOther
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GPU MODELAMD MI300X
GPU COUNT1
VRAM192 GB
LOCATIONATL1
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