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.
Nebius NVIDIA H200 on-demand costs USD 5.40 per GPU-hour for one GPU with 141 GB VRAM; the listed configuration includes 16 vCPUs and 200 GB RAM. The platform is documented in eu-north1; eu-north2 (conditional); eu-west1; us-central1, with storage charged separately.
Use-case fit and limitations from the existing resource record.
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Recorded price-change events provide the comparison; no synthetic market reference is created.
| Observed at | Change type | Previous | Current | Metric | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-01 | PRICE RISE | $4.50 | $5.40 | USD/hour | Source ↗ |
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.