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Elastx vs Runpod

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What's good about...

Elastx logo Elastx

  • All infrastructure in Sweden with three availability zones for local disaster recovery
  • ISO 27001, ISO 27017, ISO 27018, and ISO 14001 certified
  • 24/7 support, DDoS protection, and threat intelligence included in base pricing
  • OpenStack-based platform with no vendor lock-in
  • Hourly billing with optional 1-year and 3-year commitment discounts

Runpod logo Runpod

  • 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

How do Elastx's prices compare against Runpod?

VM Small

Elastx Elastx
$27.03 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB disk
Runpod Runpod
$43.20 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)

VM Medium

Elastx Elastx
$130.80 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 120 GB disk
Runpod Runpod
$86.40 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)

VM Large

Elastx Elastx
$261.60 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 240 GB disk
Runpod Runpod
$172.80 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)

Block Storage

Elastx Elastx
$29.30 /mo 100 GB SSD (4000 IOPS)
Runpod Runpod
$10.00 /mo 100 GB

Object Storage

Elastx Elastx
$56.74 /mo 1 TB stored
Runpod Runpod
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Load Balancer

Elastx Elastx
$39.92 /mo v1-lb-1
Runpod Runpod
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Managed PostgreSQL

Elastx Elastx
$189.09 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB disk
Runpod Runpod
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Managed Redis®*

Elastx Elastx
$189.09 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB disk (Valkey)
Runpod Runpod
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Free egress allowance

Elastx Elastx
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Runpod Runpod
Free and unlimited

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Elastx Elastx
$51.58 1 TB external traffic
Runpod Runpod
Free and unlimited

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Elastx Elastx
Runpod Runpod
RTX PRO 6000 $2.91 $2.09 A100 $3.78 $1.39 L40S $2.31 $1.09 L4 $1.02 $0.49

Billing Options

Elastx Elastx
On-Demand
Runpod Runpod
On-DemandReservation

Available Models

Elastx offers 4 GPU models, while Runpod offers 35.

Elastx Elastx
A100(2) RTX PRO 6000(1) L40S(1) L4(1)
Runpod Runpod
H100(9) H200(5) A100(6) RTX PRO 6000(3) B200(3) L40S(3) B300(4) RTX A6000(3) RTX 5090(3) V100(2)
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Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Elastx and Runpod offer:

Service Elastx Runpod
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage
Python Notebooks
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Elastx Elastx
elastx.se
Runpod Runpod
www.runpod.io
Headquarters
Elastx Elastx
Sweden SE flag
Runpod Runpod
United States of America US flag
Founded
Elastx Elastx
2012
Runpod Runpod
2022
Data Center Locations
Elastx Elastx
3
Runpod Runpod
32
Example Customers
Elastx Elastx
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Runpod Runpod
Zillow, CivitAI, Wix, OpenAI, Perplexity, Cursor

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Our data for Elastx was last updated on Aug. 31, 2026, and for Runpod on Sept. 11, 2026.