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 offers the NVIDIA L40S as an on-demand GPU Droplet at $1.57/hour. The configuration has 48 GB total GPU memory, 64 GiB Droplet memory, 8 vCPUs, and a 500 GiB NVMe boot disk; billing is per second with a 60-second or $0.01 minimum.
CURRENT PRICE$1.57 / hrNative listed value
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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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