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.
Together AI GPU Clusters list preemptible NVIDIA HGX B200 capacity at $4.09 per GPU-hour versus $8.19 per GPU-hour on-demand. Preemptible nodes are available on Kubernetes clusters in all regions, can be reclaimed with up to a five-minute drain window, and are billed sub-hourly.
Secondary price terms only; primary pricing stays in the deal summary.
Use-case fit and limitations from the existing resource record.
Available
Preemptible; sub-hourly metering every 1–2 minutes; up to 5-minute drain window on reclamation.
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.