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.
Modal lists NVIDIA B200 GPU task compute at $0.001736 per GPU-second (equivalent to $6.2496 per GPU-hour) for a single 180 GB B200 GPU. This is a base GPU-only rate; CPU, RAM, egress and optional region or non-preemptible multipliers may increase total cost, and real-time stock is not confirmed.
Secondary price terms only; primary pricing stays in the deal summary.
Use-case fit and limitations from the existing resource record.
Published GPU base rate excludes CPU, RAM, egress, regional and execution multipliers; no real-time stock or account quota verification. B200+ may allocate B300 and requires workload compatibility.
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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.