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GPU cloud comparisonEdition of 12 Nov 2026
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Glossary

GPU-hour

Answer in brief

A GPU-hour is one GPU running for one hour, the unit that lets machines of different sizes sit in one column.

GPU-hour in practice

A machine with eight GPUs running for one hour uses eight GPU-hours. Dividing its hourly price by eight gives its price per GPU-hour.

The unit is fair for comparison and misleading as a budget. What you pay each hour is the price per GPU-hour times the number of GPUs in the smallest machine you can rent.

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.

A GPU-hour is one GPU running for one hour, the unit that lets machines of different sizes sit in one column.

Sources for this entry

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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. “GPU-hour.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://comparegpucloud.com/glossary/gpu-hour