Pricing options
On-demand
Pay-as-you-go pricing for non-interruptible instances. Resources are dedicated to your Pod and cannot be displaced by other users.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.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.Storage pricing
Storage is billed per-second for container and volume disks, and hourly for network volumes. You are not charged if the host is unavailable.
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.