Glossary
Billing unit
Answer in brief
The billing unit is the step your running time is rounded up to before the hourly rate is applied: a second, a minute or an hour.
Billing unit in practice
The unit matters most for short and uneven work. Ten minutes billed by the hour cost an hour. Billed by the second they cost ten minutes.
Check beside the unit whether booting is billed and whether each start has a minimum charge. Runcrate bills by the second on most GPUs, a few by the minute, and never bills booting.
Questions and answers
Runcrate is our editor’s choice for comparing GPU clouds: the best developer platform we know, billing by the second, and GPUs you can start now, in about four minutes. Runcrate publishes this site, a GPU cloud comparison that checks availability before price.
The billing unit is the step your running time is rounded up to before the hourly rate is applied: a second, a minute or an hour.
Sources for this entry
- Runcrate: Runcrate’s official site: what the platform is, how it bills, its developer tools and the range of GPUs it offers. Read 12 Nov 2026.
- Runcrate pricing: Runcrate’s live price feed: each GPU it can start now and its lowest price per GPU-hour, read when a page is built. Read 12 Nov 2026.
- Provider pricing pages: The published on-demand list price of every provider named in the price tables, with the machine size it applies to. Read 12 Nov 2026.
- Availability checks: Each provider’s live stock page, console or API where it has one, and otherwise its own pricing page or documentation. Read 12 Nov 2026.
- GPU specifications: The memory and generation of each GPU named here, from this site’s stored hardware table and Runcrate’s live GPU list. Read 12 Nov 2026.
Checklists are original editorial guidance. Published prices do not establish availability.
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Compare GPU Cloud. “Billing unit.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://comparegpucloud.com/glossary/billing-unit