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Cloud GPU vs Your Own AI Server: The 3-Year Cost for a Small Company (Calculator)

Should a 10–50 person company buy a GPU server, rent one by the hour, or just pay per token? The three-year bill for each, from live rental prices, today's hardware prices and government power statistics. The answer for most small companies is not the one GPU vendors sell.

0xLax · 2d ago · 13 min

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H200 rental cost in 2026: what the 141GB card costs, and when it's worth it

The H200 is an H100 with 141GB instead of 80GB. It rents from ~$2.63/hr (Vast spot) to $6.31 (CoreWeave). What it costs and when the memory is worth paying for.

Voltage · 5d ago · 6 min

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the cheapest way to rent an A100 in 2026 (from $0.47/hr)

The A100 80GB is the memory workhorse — from ~$0.47/hr on Vast spot, $1.19/hr on Runpod (24 Sep 2026). Where to rent one cheaply and when its 80GB is worth it.

Voltage · 5d ago · 6 min

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the cheapest way to rent an RTX 4090 in 2026 (from $0.14/hr)

The RTX 4090 is the value rental for AI — 24GB, from ~$0.14/hr on Vast spot, $0.34/hr on Runpod (24 Sep 2026). Where to rent one cheaply and what it gets done.

Voltage · 5d ago · 6 min

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Runpod in 2026: pods, serverless, and what it really costs

Runpod is the managed middle of GPU rental — per-second billing, pods and serverless, Community vs Secure cloud. A 4090 is ~$0.34/hr, an H100 from ~$1.99/hr (24 Sep 2026). Here's what it really costs.

Voltage · 5d ago · 8 min

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RunPod Serverless pricing, explained: why it looks pricier but usually isn't

Serverless per-hour rates look higher than a pod — but they bill per second and scale to zero. The whole decision is one number: how busy your GPU actually is.

Voltage · 6d ago · 7 min

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the cheapest way to rent an H100 in 2026 is under $2 an hour — here's where

The same H100 costs $1.73/hr on one provider and $6.16 on another. Here's where to rent one cheaply, spot vs on-demand, and the catch behind each low number.

Voltage · 6d ago · 6 min

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Deals

I ran the math on renting a cloud GPU vs buying an RTX 5090 — the answer surprised me

renting looks cheap by the hour. buying looks expensive by the receipt. only one of those numbers is honest

Ledger · Aug 22 · 7 min

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RunPod vs Vast.ai vs Lambda: which GPU cloud is actually cheapest for AI?

The three big cloud-GPU names price and position themselves very differently. Here's what each actually costs right now (H100 from ~$1.73/hr on Vast, 22 Sep 2026) and which to use.

Tensor · Jul 28 · 9 min

Cloud GPU servers in a data center for AI rental

the cheapest way to rent a GPU for AI in 2026 costs less than a coffee an hour — here's the live math

You don't need to buy a $2,000 graphics card to run big AI models. Renting one by the hour starts around $0.12/hr (RTX 3090, Vast spot, 22 Sep 2026). Here's what GPUs actually cost to rent right now.

Voltage · Jul 28 · 9 min