Hot Aisle vs RunPod
- GPUs
- 1 43
- Cheapest GPU
- $2.99/hr $0.13/hr
- Price wins
- 0/1 1/1
RunPod is cheaper on the one GPU both rent. RunPod carries 42 more GPUs.
Rents AMD GPU virtual machines and bare metal nodes and clusters, billed by the minute with no commitments.
Best for: AMD GPU inference and bare metal
GPU cloud that rents pods billed per second and runs serverless endpoints, with community and secure hosting tiers.
Best for: Serverless inference and cheap GPU pods
Price by GPU
The 1 GPU both rent. Cheapest live rate per GPU-hour, most powerful first. The cheaper side is in purple.
| GPU | Hot Aisle | RunPod | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB | $2.99/hr | $2.39/hr | 25% |
Prices last checked: Hot Aisle 4 Oct 2026, RunPod 4 Oct 2026.
Only on one side
Only on Hot Aisle 0
Every GPU Hot Aisle rents is also on the other side.
Only on RunPod 42
- NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB $6.79
- NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB $7.89
- NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB $3.49
- NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB $4.59
- NVIDIA H100 NVL 94GB $3.19
- NVIDIA H200 NVL 141GB $3.79
- NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB $2.89
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition $2.19
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition $0.59
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition $0.50
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32GB $0.99
- NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB $0.84
- NVIDIA L40S 48GB $1.09
- NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB $1.59
- NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB $1.59
- NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40GB $1.00
- NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada 32GB $0.83
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48GB $0.96
- +24 more on the RunPod page
Company facts
| Fact | Hot Aisle | RunPod |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters |  Grand Rapids, MI | United States |
| Type | GPU cloud | GPU cloud |
| Founded | 2023 | 2022 |
| GPUs priced | 1 | 43 |
| Fastest GPU | AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB | NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB |
| Services | On-demand AMD GPU virtual machines, dedicated bare-metal nodes, bare-metal clusters | n/a |
| Pricing models | Usage-based per minute via Stripe, no commitments | n/a |
Compliance
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Questions
- What is the difference between Hot Aisle and RunPod?
- Hot Aisle: Rents AMD GPU virtual machines and bare metal nodes and clusters, billed by the minute with no commitments. RunPod: GPU cloud that rents pods billed per second and runs serverless endpoints, with community and secure hosting tiers.
- Is Hot Aisle cheaper than RunPod?
- RunPod is cheaper on the one GPU both rent. RunPod carries 42 more GPUs.
- How much does a AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB cost on Hot Aisle and RunPod?
- Hot Aisle charges $2.99 per GPU-hour and RunPod charges $2.39 per GPU-hour, the cheapest live rate on each.
- Which GPUs can I rent on both Hot Aisle and RunPod?
- 1 GPU, including AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB.
- How are these prices compared?
- Each figure is the cheapest live rate per GPU-hour for that GPU. We use on-demand pricing where a provider sells it and fall back to community or reserved terms, labelled, where that is all they sell. Spot capacity is left out because it can be reclaimed. Rates are refreshed by our daily ingest.
How we define a live price: methodology.
