Glossary
On-demand
Answer in brief
An on-demand price is what you pay to start a machine when you want it and stop it when you are done, with no term and no risk of losing it.
On-demand in practice
On demand is the one pricing model without conditions, so it is the one to use when you compare providers. Spot and reserved prices are lower because they carry conditions.
An on-demand price helps only if the machine can be started. Read the label beside it before you read the figure.
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.
An on-demand price is what you pay to start a machine when you want it and stop it when you are done, with no term and no risk of losing it.
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. “On-demand.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://comparegpucloud.com/glossary/on-demand