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GCP vs RunPod

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What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Google Cloud

Extensive range of managed services with a focus on big data and machine learning
BigQuery and Google Kubernetes Engine are widely considered industry-leading solutions
Strong community and developer tooling
40+ data centers around the world

RunPod

Affordable GPUs in various configurations
Packed with features: hot-reloading, managed containers, logging & monitoring
Available in 30+ regions across the world

Price comparison

How do Google Cloud's prices compare against RunPod?

Example configuration	Google Cloud	RunPod
VM Small	$20.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (E2 custom)	$43.20 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
VM Medium	$90.15 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)	$86.40 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
VM Large	$179.87 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)	$172.80 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
Block Storage	$4.10 / mo 100 GB	$10.00 / mo $0.10 / GB / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$24.93 / mo 1 TB	--
Load Balancer	$29.44 / mo	--
Managed PostgreSQL	$93.60 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage	--
Managed Redis®*	$35.28 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (Basic)	--
Serverless 25M Executions	$47.62 / mo 25M invocations, 2nd gen, 150 ms duration	--
Free egress allowance	Depends on service	--
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$120.00 $0.12 / GB (Premium network)	Free and unlimited

GCP offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
g2-standard-4	1x L4	24GB	4	16GB	$0.71
g2-standard-8	1x L4	24GB	8	32GB	$0.85
g2-standard-12	1x L4	24GB	12	48GB	$1.00
g2-standard-16	1x L4	24GB	16	64GB	$1.15
g2-standard-32	1x L4	24GB	32	128GB	$1.73
g2-standard-24	2x L4	48GB	24	96GB	$2.00
a2-highgpu-1g	1x A100	40GB	12	85GB	$3.67
g2-standard-48	4x L4	96GB	48	192GB	$4.00
a2-highgpu-2g	2x A100	80GB	24	170GB	$7.35
g2-standard-96	8x L4	192GB	96	384GB	$8.00
a2-highgpu-4g	4x A100	160GB	48	340GB	$14.69
a2-highgpu-8g	8x A100	320GB	96	680GB	$29.39
a2-megagpu-16g	16x A100	640GB	96	1360GB	$55.74

RunPod offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
RTX3070	1x RTX3070	8GB	16	31GB	$0.13
A4000	1x A4000	16GB	4	17GB	$0.17
A4500	1x A4500	20GB	4	29GB	$0.19
A4000 Ada	1x A4000	20GB	4	31GB	$0.20
A30	1x A30	24GB	8	31GB	$0.22
A5000	1x A5000	24GB	4	24GB	$0.22
RTX4090	1x RTX4090	24GB	7	24GB	$0.44
A40	1x A40	48GB	9	50GB	$0.47
A6000	1x A6000	48GB	8	50GB	$0.49
L40S	1x L40S	48GB	12	62GB	$0.79
A6000 Ada	1x A6000	48GB	14	62GB	$0.79
MI250	1x MI250	128GB	--	--	$0.90
L40	1x L40S	48GB	16	250GB	$0.99
A100 PCIe	1x A100	80GB	8	83GB	$1.19
A100 SXM	1x A100	80GB	16	125GB	$1.94
H100 PCIe	1x H100	80GB	16	176GB	$2.69
H100 SXM	1x H100	80GB	24	125GB	$2.99
MI300X	1x MI300X	192GB	24	283GB	$3.99

Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that Google Cloud and RunPod offer:

Service	Google Cloud	RunPod
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)		--
Container Registry		--
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer		--
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes		--
Managed MySQL		--
Managed PostgreSQL		--
Managed Redis®*		--
Object Storage		--
Serverless Cron Jobs		--
Serverless Functions		--
Static Sites		--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

	Google Cloud	RunPod
Website	cloud.google.com	www.runpod.io
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008	2022
Data Center Locations	40	24
Example Customers	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank	AfterShoot, Replika, Otovo, Data Science Dojo, Abzu

	Google Cloud
Website	cloud.google.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008
Data Center Locations	40
Example Customers	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank

	RunPod
Website	www.runpod.io
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2022
Data Center Locations	24
Example Customers	AfterShoot, Replika, Otovo, Data Science Dojo, Abzu