

Two GPU specialist providers, priced against each other on the 6 GPUs both of them rent. Published per-GPU on-demand rates as each provider last stated them, with what their own pages say about billing, commitment and egress beside the numbers.
Hyperstack is cheaper on 4 of the 6 cards both of them rent, by a median of 10%. RunPod Secure Cloud is cheaper on the other 2.
The 6 cards both of them rent, cheapest published per-GPU on-demand rate each. Dearest first.
| GPU | Hyperstack | RunPod Secure Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141GB | $3.99/hr | $4.59/hr | 13% cheaper on Hyperstack |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $3.20/hr | $3.49/hr | 8% cheaper on Hyperstack |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB | $1.85/hr | $2.09/hr | 11% cheaper on Hyperstack |
| NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB | $1.60/hr | $1.59/hr | 1% cheaper on RunPod Secure Cloud |
| NVIDIA L40 48GB | $1.00/hr | $0.82/hr | 18% cheaper on RunPod Secure Cloud |
| NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB | $0.50/hr | $0.53/hr | 6% cheaper on Hyperstack |
Per GPU per hour, on-demand list prices as each provider last published them. Rates exclude tax and vary by region; a cheaper rate is not the same machine, the same network or the same support.
| Hyperstack | RunPod Secure Cloud | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing granularityOn short jobs this outweighs the rate: an hour minimum on a 90-second run costs more than a 30% dearer per-second rate. | Per minute, balance updates in real time | Per second |
| Minimum commitment | None for on-demand; prepaid balance | None |
| Payment model | Prepaid by default; postpaid and premium postpaid via sales | Prepaid credits; post-paid invoice for Enterprise |
| Free credits | Vouchers (single-use per organisation) | $1,000 startup credits (application); referral rewards |
| Egress | Free | Free |
| Uptime SLA | 99.5% monthly | 99.99% SLA on Enterprise agreements; none on Community Cloud |
| Regions | NORWAY-1 (Vestland), CANADA-1 (Quebec), US-1 (Texas) | 31 regions across the US, Europe, Asia and Australia |
Neither site tells you whether your data trains their models, how fast support answers or how long you have to dispute a bill. We looked on both and record the absence rather than filling it in — if you need any of it, ask before you commit.
Hyperstack is cheaper on 4 of the 6 cards both of them rent, by a median of 10%. RunPod Secure Cloud is cheaper on the other 2.
NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141GB, NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB, NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB, NVIDIA L40 48GB, NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB — 6 in total, on published per-GPU on-demand rates.
Of the cards both rent, Hyperstack starts at $0.50 per GPU-hour and RunPod Secure Cloud at $0.53.