RunPod
Rent GPUs by the minute, or run models on serverless endpoints that scale to zero between requests.
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About RunPod
What it is
RunPod rents GPU compute in two shapes: pods, which are on-demand machines across many regions, and serverless endpoints, which start on a request and stop afterwards. It also runs multi-node clusters, and a hub of prebuilt templates for deploying open models without assembling the environment yourself.
Why it's different
Scaling to zero is the argument. A GPU idling between requests is the single largest waste in small-scale inference, and paying per second of actual work changes what is affordable for a side project or an unpredictable workload. The costs are cold starts, which are real and noticeable, and the ordinary risk of a specialist provider: capacity in the region and card you want is not guaranteed the way a hyperscaler's is.
How people use it
Serving an open model without owning hardware. Fine-tuning runs that last hours rather than months. Bursty inference where traffic is unpredictable. Measure your cold start before committing, because a serverless endpoint that takes thirty seconds to wake is unusable for anything interactive.
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