Which is cheaper, RunPod RTX 3090 · Secure Cloud or RunPod RTX A6000 · Secure Cloud?

RunPod RTX 3090 · Secure Cloud, at $0.500/GPU-hr against $0.530/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 17 Sept 2026. On the whole machine that is $0.50/hr against $0.53/hr.

Which holds more GPU memory?

RunPod RTX A6000 · Secure Cloud, at 48 GB across the instance against 24 GB. Per board it is 24 GB against 48 GB.

What would a week cost?

$84 for RunPod RTX 3090 · Secure Cloud and $89 for RunPod RTX A6000 · 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 RTX 3090 · Secure Cloud: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. RunPod RTX A6000 · Secure Cloud: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. Egress and tax are extra on both.

RunPod RTX 3090 · Secure Cloud vs RunPod RTX A6000 · Secure Cloud.

machine vs machine · prices as of 17 Sept 2026

Two machines from RunPod's own catalogue, the nearest to each other on price. RunPod RTX A6000 · Secure Cloud takes 2 of 4 rounds against RunPod RTX 3090 · Secure Cloud. RunPod RTX 3090 · Secure Cloud counters on price: $0.500/GPU-hr against $0.530/GPU-hr, for 24 GB a board instead of 48 GB.

RunPod

RTX 3090 · Secure Cloud

$0.500/GPU-hr

$0.50/hr for the machine · $84 a week

1x RTX 3090 · 24 GB each · $0.0208/GB-hr

RunPod ↗

RunPodwins 2 rounds

RTX A6000 · Secure Cloud

$0.530/GPU-hr

$0.53/hr for the machine · $89 a week

1x RTX A6000 · 48 GB each · $0.0110/GB-hr

RunPod ↗

Price per GPU-hour (lower wins)

$0.500/GPU-hr

$0.530/GPU-hr

Interruptible rate (lower wins)

not published

Price per GB of VRAM (lower wins)

$0.0208/GB-hr

$0.0110/GB-hr

VRAM per GPU

24 GB

48 GB

GPUs per instance

1x RTX 3090

1x RTX A6000

vCPU

RAM

125 GB

50 GB

Included storage

none · volumes extra

Regions listed

regions not stated

What a run costs on each

An hour of the machine$0.50/hr vs $0.53/hr
A day$12 vs $13
A week$84 vs $89
A week on spotnot published vs not published

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

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Frequently asked

Which is cheaper, RunPod RTX 3090 · Secure Cloud or RunPod RTX A6000 · Secure Cloud?: RunPod RTX 3090 · Secure Cloud, at $0.500/GPU-hr against $0.530/GPU-hr, both the on-demand rate for one GPU for one hour, read on 17 Sept 2026. On the whole machine that is $0.50/hr against $0.53/hr.
Which holds more GPU memory?: RunPod RTX A6000 · Secure Cloud, at 48 GB across the instance against 24 GB. Per board it is 24 GB against 48 GB.
What would a week cost?: $84 for RunPod RTX 3090 · Secure Cloud and $89 for RunPod RTX A6000 · 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 RTX 3090 · Secure Cloud: disk none, billed separately, no regions published, billed per second. RunPod RTX A6000 · 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.