Hot Aisle
vs
Runpod
What's good about each
- Simple, competitive pricing at $2.99/GPU/h
- Self-serve platform with bare metal access
- SOC2 Type 2 and HIPAA compliant
- Hosted in a Tier 5 facility 100% powered by renewable energy
- 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 | Hot Aisle | 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
Hot Aisle offers 1 GPU model, while Runpod offers 35. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Hot Aisle | Runpod | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
MI300X
6 configs · 2 configs
|
$2.99 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.39 /GPU/hr On-demand | 20% cheaper on Runpod |
H100
12 configs
|
-- | $3.19 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
B300
4 configs
|
-- | $7.89 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
B200
4 configs
|
-- | $6.79 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
H200
8 configs
|
-- | $3.59 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
6 configs
|
-- | $1.69 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
RTX 5090
4 configs
|
-- | $0.99 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
A100
12 configs
|
-- | $1.39 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
RTX 4090
4 configs
|
-- | $0.34 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
L40S
5 configs
|
-- | $1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
Hot Aisle bills on-demand and reserved (1 months); Runpod bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
| Service | Hot Aisle | Runpod |
|---|---|---|
| Block Storage | ||
| GPU-powered Servers | ||
| Managed Containers | ||
| Python Notebooks | ||
| Virtual Private Server (VPS) |
Company details
| Fact | Hot Aisle | Runpod |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2023 | 2022 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 1 | 32 |
| Example customers | -- | Zillow, CivitAI, Wix, OpenAI, Perplexity, Cursor |
| Website | hotaisle.xyz | www.runpod.io |
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Our data for Hot Aisle was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Runpod on Sept. 12, 2026.