Northflank
Pay-per-use: ~$0.01667/vCPU/hr, ~$0.00833/GB-mem/hr, per-second billing; NVMe $0.15/GB-month. On-demand GPUs: A100 40GB $1.42/hr, A100 80GB $1.76/hr, H100 $2.74/hr, H200 $3.14/hr.
Northflank scores 4.6/10 for free value in Functions. The main constraint: Paid — $0.01667 per vCPU-hour + $0.00833 per GB-RAM-hour. Pay-per-use: ~$0.01667/vCPU/hr, ~$0.00833/GB-mem/hr, per-second billing; NVMe $0.15/GB-month. On-demand GPUs: A100 40GB $1.42/hr, A100 80GB $1.76/hr, H100 $2.74/hr, H200 $3.14/hr.
Free value score
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What you get
Paid — $0.01667 per vCPU-hour + $0.00833 per GB-RAM-hour. Pay-per-use: ~$0.01667/vCPU/hr, ~$0.00833/GB-mem/hr, per-second billing; NVMe $0.15/GB-month. On-demand GPUs: A100 40GB $1.42/hr, A100 80GB $1.76/hr, H100 $2.74/hr, H200 $3.14/hr.
~60 vCPU-hours per $1 of compute; A100 40GB at $1.42/hr is one of the lowest managed-platform A100 rates. Strong CPU and GPU value.
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Sources
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"Compute: $0.01667 per vCPU/hour, $0.00833 per GB memory/hour; Storage: $0.15 per GB/month for NVMe disks"
https://northflank.com/blog/best-cloud-hosting-platforms -
"A100 40GB, 40GB, $1.42/hr ; A100 80GB, 80GB, $1.76/hr ; H100, 80GB, $2.74/hr ; H200, 141GB, $3.14/hr."
https://northflank.com/blog/runpod-gpu-pricing
Alternatives
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