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 — L40S
DigitalOcean lists its on-demand NVIDIA L40S GPU Droplet at $1.57 per GPU-hour with 48 GB GPU memory, 64 GiB instance memory, 8 vCPUs and a 500 GiB NVMe boot disk. Billing is per second, but DigitalOcean's official pricing and documentation pages disagree on the minimum billable duration (5 minutes versus 60 seconds/$0.01).
CURRENT PRICE$1.57 / hrNative listed value
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BILLINGOther
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KEY RISK
Official DigitalOcean pages conflict on GPU Droplet minimum billing (5 minutes versus 60 seconds/$0.01); confirm at checkout. Powered-off instances continue billing.
AVAILABILITY
Available
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GPU MODELNVIDIA L40S
GPU COUNT1
VRAM48 GB
VCPU8
RAM64 GB
STORAGE500 GB NVMe
PORT10 Gbps
IPV4Unknown
IPV6Unknown
LOCATIONNorth America (product page: New York, Atlanta, Toronto)
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