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 5 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 · 11 configs
|
$3.39 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.19 /GPU/hr On-demand | 6% cheaper on Runpod |
|
RTX 5090
20 configs · 3 configs
|
$0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | $0.69 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | 19% cheaper on Novita |
|
RTX 4090
20 configs · 3 configs
|
$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.34 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | Within 5% |
|
L40S
8 configs · 4 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 | $0.84 /GPU/hr On-demand | 8% cheaper on Novita |
|
B300
3 configs
|
-- | $6.94 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | Runpod only |
|
B200
3 configs
|
-- | $6.79 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
3 configs
|
-- | $1.69 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
H200
7 configs
|
-- | $3.59 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
A100
8 configs
|
-- | $1.00 /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) |
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
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 |
Alternatives to consider
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Our data for Novita was last updated on Oct. 8, 2026, and for Runpod on Oct. 8, 2026.