Which is cheaper, Modal Nvidia B200 or RunPod B200 · Community Cloud?

RunPod B200 · Community Cloud, at $5.98/GPU-hr against $6.25/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 17 Sept 2026. On the whole machine that is $5.98/hr against $6.25/hr.

Which holds more GPU memory?

Both add up to 180 GB across the instance, at 180 GB and 180 GB a board.

What would a week cost?

$1,050 for Modal Nvidia B200 and $1,005 for RunPod B200 · Community Cloud, at 168 hours of the whole machine at its published rate, with no commitment discount. Neither publishes an interruptible rate.

What does the hourly price leave out?

Modal Nvidia B200: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. RunPod B200 · Community Cloud: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. Egress and tax are extra on both.

Modal Nvidia B200 vs RunPod B200 · Community Cloud.

machine vs machine · prices as of 17 Sept 2026

The same B200 at two providers, so the board is identical and everything else is not. RunPod B200 · Community Cloud takes 2 of 4 rounds against Modal Nvidia B200. It is also the cheaper of the two by the hour, at $5.98/GPU-hr against $6.25/GPU-hr.

Modal

Nvidia B200

$6.25/GPU-hr

$6.25/hr for the machine · $1,050 a week

1x B200 · 180 GB each · $0.0347/GB-hr · Serverless

Modal ↗

RunPodwins 2 rounds

B200 · Community Cloud

$5.98/GPU-hr

$5.98/hr for the machine · $1,005 a week

1x B200 · 180 GB each · $0.0332/GB-hr · Marketplace

RunPod ↗

Price per GPU-hour (lower wins)

$6.25/GPU-hr

$5.98/GPU-hr

Interruptible rate (lower wins)

not published

Price per GB of VRAM (lower wins)

$0.0347/GB-hr

$0.0332/GB-hr

VRAM per GPU

180 GB

GPUs per instance

1x B200

vCPU

not stated

RAM

not stated

283 GB

Included storage

none · volumes extra

Regions listed

regions not stated

What a run costs on each

An hour of the machine$6.25/hr vs $5.98/hr
A day$150 vs $144
A week$1,050 vs $1,005
A week on spotnot published vs not published

Modal then RunPod, at the published rate with no commitment discount

Go further

open in the compare tool →every price for the B200

Add a third or fourth machine, or switch the weighting, in the tool.

Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, Modal Nvidia B200 or RunPod B200 · Community Cloud?: RunPod B200 · Community Cloud, at $5.98/GPU-hr against $6.25/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 17 Sept 2026. On the whole machine that is $5.98/hr against $6.25/hr.
Which holds more GPU memory?: Both add up to 180 GB across the instance, at 180 GB and 180 GB a board.
What would a week cost?: $1,050 for Modal Nvidia B200 and $1,005 for RunPod B200 · Community Cloud, at 168 hours of the whole machine at its published rate, with no commitment discount. Neither publishes an interruptible rate.
What does the hourly price leave out?: Modal Nvidia B200: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. RunPod B200 · Community 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.