RunPod vs Shadeform
- GPUs
- 43 9
- Cheapest GPU
- $0.13/hr $0.65/hr
- Price wins
- 5/8 3/8
RunPod is cheaper on 5 of the 8 GPUs both rent, Shadeform on 3. RunPod carries 34 more GPUs.
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
Marketplace with one console and API across many GPU clouds, so users compare and launch instances from any of them.
Best for: Comparing and launching across GPU clouds
Price by GPU
The 8 GPUs both rent. Cheapest live rate per GPU-hour, most powerful first. The cheaper side is in purple.
| GPU | RunPod | Shadeform | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $3.49/hr | $5.99/hr | 72% |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32GB | $0.99/hr | $0.65/hr | 52% |
| NVIDIA L40S 48GB | $1.09/hr | $0.88/hr | 24% |
| NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB | $1.59/hr | $1.40/hr | 14% |
| NVIDIA L40 48GB | $0.82/hr | $0.88/hr | 7% |
| NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB | $0.53/hr | $1.93/hr | 264% |
| NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB | $0.27/hr | $1.42/hr | 426% |
| NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB | $0.25/hr | $0.80/hr | 220% |
Prices last checked: RunPod 1 Oct 2026, Shadeform 1 Oct 2026.
Only on one side
Only on RunPod 35
- NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB $6.79
- NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB $7.89
- AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB $2.39
- 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 RTX 6000 Ada 48GB $0.84
- 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
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB $0.59
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell 32GB $0.72
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4090 24GB $0.74
- +17 more on the RunPod page
Only on Shadeform 1
Company facts
| Fact | RunPod | Shadeform |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters |  United States | San Francisco, CA |
| Type | GPU cloud | Marketplace |
| Founded | 2022 | n/a |
| GPUs priced | 43 | 9 |
| Fastest GPU | NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB | NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB |
Compliance
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Questions
- What is the difference between RunPod and Shadeform?
- RunPod: GPU cloud that rents pods billed per second and runs serverless endpoints, with community and secure hosting tiers. Shadeform: Marketplace with one console and API across many GPU clouds, so users compare and launch instances from any of them.
- Is RunPod cheaper than Shadeform?
- RunPod is cheaper on 5 of the 8 GPUs both rent, Shadeform on 3. RunPod carries 34 more GPUs.
- How much does a NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB cost on RunPod and Shadeform?
- RunPod charges $3.49 per GPU-hour and Shadeform charges $5.99 per GPU-hour, the cheapest live rate on each.
- Which GPUs can I rent on both RunPod and Shadeform?
- 8 GPUs, including NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32GB, NVIDIA L40S 48GB, NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB, NVIDIA L40 48GB, NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB.
- 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.
