Cyfuture AI
vs
Runpod
Runpod emphasizes per-second billing and a large pool of community and secure-cloud GPUs, while Cyfuture AI offers per-hour billing from its own India-based Tier III data centers.
What's good about each
- Wide accelerator range spanning NVIDIA, AMD, and Intel
- No ingress or egress fees
- Five Tier III data centers across India, with all data kept in-country
- Reserved commitments discount on-demand rates by up to roughly 50%
- 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 | Cyfuture AI | Runpod | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $43.20 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $86.40 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $172.80 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized) | |
| Block storage | -- Not listed | $10.00 /mo 100 GB | |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | Free and unlimited | |
| Egress | -- Not listed | 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
Cyfuture AI offers 9 GPU models, while Runpod offers 35. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Cyfuture AI | Runpod | Difference |
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$3.34 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.59 /GPU/hr On-demand | 22% cheaper on Runpod |
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$5.47 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | $7.89 /GPU/hr On-demand | 31% cheaper on Cyfuture AI |
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$2.68 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.69 /GPU/hr On-demand | 37% cheaper on Runpod |
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$2.01 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | 2x more expensive on Cyfuture AI |
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$2.78 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.39 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | 14% cheaper on Runpod |
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$1.26 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand | 37% cheaper on Runpod |
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$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand | 2.4x more expensive on Cyfuture AI |
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$1.48 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | -- | Cyfuture AI only |
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$0.58 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | -- | Cyfuture AI only |
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-- | $6.79 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
Cyfuture AI bills on-demand and reserved (1, 6 or 12 months); Runpod bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Company details
| Fact | Cyfuture AI | Runpod |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2001 | 2022 |
| Headquarters | India | USA |
| Locations | 5 | 32 |
| Example customers | -- | Zillow, CivitAI, Wix, OpenAI, Perplexity, Cursor |
| Website | cyfuture.ai | www.runpod.io |
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Our data for Cyfuture AI was last updated on Sept. 12, 2026, and for Runpod on Sept. 12, 2026.