RunPod A100 PCIe · Secure Cloud vs RunPod A100 SXM · Secure Cloud
Prices checked
Two machines from RunPod's own catalogue, the nearest to each other on price. RunPod A100 PCIe · Secure Cloud and RunPod A100 SXM · Secure Cloud split the 4 rounds this table counts: the on-demand rate, the interruptible rate, the memory on a board and what a gigabyte of that memory costs. The weighting you pick decides the rest.
RunPodA100 PCIe · Secure Cloud
1x A100 80GB PCIe · 80 GB · 2.2¢/GB-hr
$1.79/GPU-hr$1.79/hr for the machine · $301 a week
RunPodA100 SXM · Secure Cloud
1x A100 80GB SXM · 80 GB · 2.2¢/GB-hr
$1.79/GPU-hr$1.79/hr for the machine · $301 a week
Price per GPU-hour (lower wins)
$1.79/GPU-hr
$1.79/GPU-hr
Interruptible rate (lower wins)
not published
not published
Price per GB of VRAM (lower wins)
2.2¢/GB-hr
2.2¢/GB-hr
VRAM per GPU
80 GB
80 GB
GPUs per instance
1x A100 80GB PCIe
1x A100 80GB SXM
vCPU
8
16
RAM
117 GB
125 GB
Included storage
none · volumes extra
none · volumes extra
Regions listed
none listed
none listed
What a run costs on each
- An hour of the machine$1.79/hr vs $1.79/hr
- A day$43 vs $43
- A week$301 vs $301
- A week on spotno spot price vs no spot price
RunPod, then RunPod, at the published rate with no commitment discount.
Go further
Add a third or fourth machine, or change the weighting, in the tool.
What moved this week
Verda (DataCrunch) · 1% dearer · A100 80GB SXM · the provider's own rate per GPU-hour
$2.25/GPU-hr $2.23/GPU-hr- Verda (DataCrunch) · 1% dearer ·
A100 80GB SXM · the provider's own rate per GPU-hour
$2.25/GPU-hr $2.23/GPU-hr - Verda (DataCrunch) · 1% dearer ·
A100 80GB SXM · the provider's own rate per GPU-hour
$2.25/GPU-hr $2.23/GPU-hr 8A100.176V · 8x A100 SXM4 80GB
Verda (DataCrunch) · 1% dearer · A100 80GB SXM · the provider's own rate per GPU-hour
$2.25/GPU-hr $2.23/GPU-hr- $1.79/GPU-hr $1.59/GPU-hr
- $1.79/GPU-hr $1.59/GPU-hr
Frequently asked
- Which is cheaper, RunPod A100 PCIe · Secure Cloud or RunPod A100 SXM · Secure Cloud?
- Neither: both rent at $1.79/GPU-hr, read on 1 Nov 2026.
- Which holds more GPU memory?
- Both add up to 80 GB across the instance, at 80 GB and 80 GB a board.
- What would a week cost?
- $301 for RunPod A100 PCIe · Secure Cloud and $301 for RunPod A100 SXM · Secure 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?
- RunPod A100 PCIe · Secure Cloud: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. 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 1 Nov 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.
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