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How to rent a GPU without paying for the parts you do not need: 13 guides, each priced from today's checks. For a single question with a number, see the answers.

• Best GPU for AI: Training vs Inference, at Live Rental Prices$1.80/hrFor training, rent an H100, from $1.80/hr on-demand in our latest check.
• Budget GPU cloud storage and data transferCalculate storage and egress alongside GPU compute, including retained volumes, destination rules and billing increments.
• Cheapest Cloud GPU Right Now: Live Rates and Cost Checks$0.10/hrIn our latest check, the cheapest on-demand cloud GPU we track is $0.10/hr on the RTX A4000 at TensorDock.
• Choose a GPU cloud region for your workloadCompare published GPU regions with your data location, required configuration and transfer budget without assuming latency or capacity.
• Compare reserved GPU contracts before committingCompare a GPU reservation with on-demand usage using the commitment total, matching configuration, expected runtime and cancellation terms.
• GPU budget for a startup: what the first months cost$1.80/hrThe cheapest on-demand H100 on our index is $1.80/hr, and a 24 GB RTX 4090 starts at $0.35/hr, so the first decision is not the provider but how many GPU-hours the month really needs. ## Count GPU-hours before choosing a card Write down the jobs for the next three months: experiments, a fine-tune, an inference endpoint.
• GPU rental for students: free credits and the cheapest hours$0.10/hrThe cheapest on-demand GPU on our index is $0.10/hr on the RTX A4000, so a weekend of work on a small card costs little.
• How to Rent a Cloud GPU: Step by Step$0.10/hrThe cheapest on-demand GPU on our index is $0.10/hr on the RTX A4000 at TensorDock, and a datacenter-class H100 starts at $1.80/hr on-demand.
• Local GPU or cloud GPU for an existing workstation?Decide whether to run a workload on a GPU you already own or rent cloud capacity, using incremental costs and the workload's actual requirements.
• Move a GPU workload between cloud providersCompare the full cost of switching GPU clouds, including configuration, software support, data transfer, persistent storage and validation time.
• Rent a GPU Cluster: Multi-GPU and 8x Node Pricing$1.80/hrThe cheapest on-demand H100 on our index is $1.80/hr per GPU; where a provider sells only 8-GPU nodes, the meter runs at eight times that.
• Spot vs On-Demand vs Serverless GPU Pricing: When Each Wins$1.80/hrThe cheapest on-demand H100 on our index is $1.80/hr; the cheapest interruptible GPU of any kind is $0.06/hr on the RTX 3080.
• Your first hour on a rented GPU: check it, load it, save it, stop it$86.40A machine forgotten over a weekend bills 48 hours that did no work: $86.40 a GPU, even at the cheapest on-demand H100 rate on our index, $1.80/hr. Check the card, load the model, keep the run alive, save the results and stop every charge.