Runpod offers custom pricing plans for large scale and enterprise workloads. Contact our sales team to learn more. Pricing options
| On-demand | Savings plan | Spot |
|---|
| Pricing | Standard hourly rate | Discounted (prepaid) | Lowest available |
| Commitment | None | 3 or 6 months upfront | None |
| Interruptible? | No | No | Yes (5-second warning) |
| Best for | Development, testing, variable workloads | Long-running production workloads | Fault-tolerant batch processing |
On-demand
Pay-as-you-go pricing for non-interruptible instances. Resources are dedicated to your Pod and cannot be displaced by other users.
You must have at least one hour’s worth of credits for your selected configuration to deploy an on-demand instance.
Savings plans
Commit to a 3-month or 6-month term upfront for significant discounts on compute costs. When you stop a Pod, the savings plan automatically applies to your next deployment of the same GPU type.
Savings plans only cover GPU compute costs—storage costs are billed at standard rates. Maintain a credit balance for storage, or your Pods will stop when funds run out. Plans are non-refundable and have fixed expiration dates. Spot instances
Access spare compute capacity at the lowest prices. Spot instances are interruptible—they can be terminated with only a 5-second warning (SIGTERM, then SIGKILL) if capacity is needed elsewhere.
Save your work frequently to volume disk or cloud storage. Your volume disk is retained even if your Spot instance is interrupted.
Storage pricing
| Storage type | Running Pod | Stopped Pod | Notes |
|---|
| Container disk | $0.10/GB/month | Not charged | Temporary; erased when Pod stops |
| Volume disk | $0.10/GB/month | $0.20/GB/month | Persistent; retained until Pod deleted |
| Network volume | $0.07/GB/month (< 1TB) | $0.07/GB/month | Permanent; portable between Pods |
| $0.05/GB/month (> 1TB) | $0.05/GB/month | |
Runpod is not designed for long-term cloud storage. Back up critical data to your local machine or a dedicated storage provider.
Account limits
- Minimum balance: If your balance covers less than 10 seconds of remaining runtime, Runpod stops all Pods to preserve data volumes. Set up automatic payments to avoid interruptions.
- Spend limit: Default limit of $80/hour across all resources. Contact support to increase.
Track your costs
- Savings plans: Monitor active plans, commitment periods, and expiration dates in the Savings plans section.
- Billing: Track usage and charges in the Billing section.
