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.
DigitalOcean Paperspace lists the NVIDIA A100-80G machine with 80 GB VRAM at $3.18 per hour on demand. Machine compute charges stop when powered off, while attached storage and public IPs may continue billing; capacity is unconfirmed.
Secondary price terms only; primary pricing stays in the deal summary.
Use-case fit and limitations from the existing resource record.
Unknown
On-demand.
Non-price resource facts only; pricing, history, and evidence stay in their own sections.
Decision visuals remain traceable to the existing source and verification record.
Independent ranking · native prices · evidence-linked · commercial relationships isolated from scoring and publication.