Which is cheaper, Verda (DataCrunch) 8A100.176V · 8x A100 SXM4 80GB or RunPod A100 SXM · Secure Cloud?

RunPod A100 SXM · Secure Cloud, at $1.59/GPU-hr against $1.71/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 17 Sept 2026. On the whole machine that is $1.59/hr against $13.67/hr.

Which holds more GPU memory?

Verda (DataCrunch) 8A100.176V · 8x A100 SXM4 80GB, at 640 GB across the instance against 80 GB. Per board it is 80 GB against 80 GB.

What would a week cost?

$2,297 for Verda (DataCrunch) 8A100.176V · 8x A100 SXM4 80GB and $267 for RunPod A100 SXM · Secure Cloud, at 168 hours of the whole machine at its published rate, with no commitment discount. Where a spot rate is published the same week costs less and the machine can be taken back mid-run.

What does the hourly price leave out?

Verda (DataCrunch) 8A100.176V · 8x A100 SXM4 80GB: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per hour. RunPod A100 SXM · Secure Cloud: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. Egress and tax are extra on both.

Verda (DataCrunch) 8A100.176V · 8x A100 SXM4 80GB vs RunPod A100 SXM · Secure Cloud.

machine vs machine · prices as of 17 Sept 2026

The same A100 80GB SXM at two providers, so the board is identical and everything else is not. RunPod A100 SXM · Secure Cloud takes 2 of 4 rounds against Verda (DataCrunch) 8A100.176V · 8x A100 SXM4 80GB. It is also the cheaper of the two by the hour, at $1.59/GPU-hr against $1.71/GPU-hr.

Verda (DataCrunch)

8A100.176V · 8x A100 SXM4 80GB

$1.71/GPU-hr

$13.67/hr for the machine · $2,297 a week · $0.855 spot

8x A100 80GB SXM · 80 GB each · $0.0214/GB-hr

Verda (DataCrunch) ↗

RunPodwins 2 rounds

A100 SXM · Secure Cloud

$1.59/GPU-hr

$1.59/hr for the machine · $267 a week

1x A100 80GB SXM · 80 GB each · $0.0199/GB-hr

RunPod ↗

Price per GPU-hour (lower wins)

$1.71/GPU-hr

$1.59/GPU-hr

Interruptible rate (lower wins)

$0.855/GPU-hr

not published

Price per GB of VRAM (lower wins)

$0.0214/GB-hr

$0.0199/GB-hr

VRAM per GPU

80 GB

GPUs per instance

8x A100 80GB SXM

1x A100 80GB SXM

vCPU

176

RAM

960 GB

125 GB

Included storage

none · volumes extra

Regions listed

regions not stated

What a run costs on each

An hour of the machine$13.67/hr vs $1.59/hr
A day$328 vs $38
A week$2,297 vs $267
A week on spot$1,148 vs not published

Verda (DataCrunch) then RunPod, at the published rate with no commitment discount

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Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, Verda (DataCrunch) 8A100.176V · 8x A100 SXM4 80GB or RunPod A100 SXM · Secure Cloud?: RunPod A100 SXM · Secure Cloud, at $1.59/GPU-hr against $1.71/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 17 Sept 2026. On the whole machine that is $1.59/hr against $13.67/hr.
Which holds more GPU memory?: Verda (DataCrunch) 8A100.176V · 8x A100 SXM4 80GB, at 640 GB across the instance against 80 GB. Per board it is 80 GB against 80 GB.
What would a week cost?: $2,297 for Verda (DataCrunch) 8A100.176V · 8x A100 SXM4 80GB and $267 for RunPod A100 SXM · Secure Cloud, at 168 hours of the whole machine at its published rate, with no commitment discount. Where a spot rate is published the same week costs less and the machine can be taken back mid-run.
What does the hourly price leave out?: Verda (DataCrunch) 8A100.176V · 8x A100 SXM4 80GB: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per hour. RunPod A100 SXM · Secure Cloud: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. Egress and tax are extra on both.

Every rate is the on-demand price for one GPU for one hour, read 17 Sept 2026 from each provider's own page, so a node of eight is compared at what one of its GPUs costs. Storage, egress and tax are extra unless a row says otherwise, and reserved or committed rates are not indexed. Bars are scaled to the larger value in each row.