Cleura
vs
Runpod
What's good about each
- All infrastructure located in EU (Sweden and Germany) for full data sovereignty
- OpenStack-based platform with no vendor lock-in
- Transparent pricing with per-second billing
- €50 free trial credit for new users
- Strong focus on compliance and regulated industries
- Deploy affordable GPUs in under a minute
- Scale across 30+ regions worldwide
- SOC 2 Type II certified, 99.9% uptime SLA
- Flexible billing: pay by the second, no commitments
- Multi-node Clusters scale to thousands of GPUs
- Built-in deployments, autoscaling & monitoring
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Cleura | Runpod | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $15.44 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Public) | $43.20 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized) | 2.8x more expensive on Runpod |
| Medium VM | $89.86 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Public) | $86.40 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized) | Within 5% |
| Large VM | $179.72 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Public) | $172.80 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized) | Within 5% |
| Block storage | $11.59 /mo 100 GB | $10.00 /mo 100 GB | 14% cheaper on Runpod |
| Object storage | $31.52 /mo 1 TB | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $39.92 /mo Octavia LBaaS | -- Not listed | |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | Free and unlimited | |
| Egress | $33.33 /TB €0.02875 / GB | Free and unlimited |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
Runpod offers 35 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Cleura. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Cleura | Runpod | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
12 configs
|
-- | $3.19 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
B300
4 configs
|
-- | $7.89 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
B200
5 configs
|
-- | $6.79 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
3 configs
|
-- | $2.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
H200
8 configs
|
-- | $4.59 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
RTX 5090
3 configs
|
-- | $0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | Runpod only |
|
A100
8 configs
|
-- | $1.59 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
RTX 4090
3 configs
|
-- | $0.34 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
MI300X
3 configs
|
-- | $2.39 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
L40S
3 configs
|
-- | $0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | Runpod only |
Runpod bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Company details
| Fact | Cleura | Runpod |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2002 | 2022 |
| Headquarters | Sweden | USA |
| Locations | 6 | 32 |
| Example customers | Miljödata, Clavister, Spintr, Boost.ai | Zillow, CivitAI, Wix, OpenAI, Perplexity, Cursor |
| Website | cleura.com | www.runpod.io |
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Our data for Cleura was last updated on Feb. 12, 2026, and for Runpod on Sept. 12, 2026.