Novita
vs
Runpod
Both rent A100 to RTX 5090 GPUs with spot pricing and notebooks. Novita adds an open-model API on six continents, while Runpod rents a wider catalog per second with containers, VPS and community hosts.
What's good about each
- Wide range of GPU options from RTX 3090 to H200
- Spot pricing available for up to 50% cost savings
- Offers serverless endpoints, bare metal, and cloud instances
- GPUs from RTX 3070 to B300 in one catalog
- Serverless GPU endpoints that scale to zero
- Built-in deployments, autoscaling & monitoring
- No ingress or egress fees
- SOC 2 Type II certified
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Novita | 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
Novita offers 6 GPU models, while Runpod offers 35. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Novita | Runpod | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
20 configs · 15 configs
|
$3.39 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.59 /GPU/hr On-demand | 24% cheaper on Runpod |
|
RTX 5090
20 configs · 4 configs
|
$0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | $0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand | 19% cheaper on Novita |
|
A100
8 configs · 10 configs
|
$1.60 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | $1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | 38% cheaper on Runpod |
|
RTX 4090
20 configs · 7 configs
|
$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.34 /GPU/hr On-demand | Within 5% |
|
L40S
8 configs · 7 configs
|
$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand | 30% cheaper on Novita |
|
RTX 6000 Ada
20 configs · 3 configs
|
$0.77 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | $0.74 /GPU/hr On-demand | Within 5% |
|
B300
3 configs
|
-- | $7.89 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
B200
4 configs
|
-- | $6.79 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
7 configs
|
-- | $1.69 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
H200
7 configs
|
-- | $4.59 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
Novita bills on-demand, spot 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.
| Service | Novita | Runpod |
|---|---|---|
| Block Storage | ||
| GPU-powered Servers | ||
| Managed Containers | ||
| Python Notebooks | ||
| Virtual Private Server (VPS) |
Company details
| Fact | Novita | Runpod |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2023 | 2022 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 16 | 33 |
| Example customers | beBee, Fish Audio, Gizmo, Wiz.ai | Civitai, Cognition, Cursor, Hugging Face, Perplexity, Replit |
| Website | novita.ai | www.runpod.io |
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Our data for Novita was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Runpod on Sept. 18, 2026.