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Oracle Cloud 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...

Oracle Cloud

Great price-performance ratio
Wide range of server configurations and managed services
Comprehensive hybrid and multi-cloud solutions
10 TB of free egress per month

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 Oracle Cloud's prices compare against RunPod?

Example configuration	Oracle Cloud	RunPod
VM Small	$10.42 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)	$43.20 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
VM Medium	$27.53 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)	$86.40 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
VM Large	$92.26 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex)	$172.80 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
Block Storage	$4.25 / mo 100 GB	$10.00 / mo $0.10 / GB / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$25.57 / mo	--
Load Balancer	$7.86 / mo	--
Managed PostgreSQL	$70.56 / mo 4 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PostgreSQL.VM.Standard.Flex.E4)	--
Managed Redis®*	$27.94 / mo 2 GB RAM	--
Free egress allowance	10 TB / mo	--
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$8.50 $0.0085 / GB	Free and unlimited

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 Oracle Cloud and RunPod offer:

Service	Oracle 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

	Oracle Cloud	RunPod
Website	www.oracle.com	www.runpod.io
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2016	2022
Data Center Locations	39	24
Example Customers	Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia	AfterShoot, Replika, Otovo, Data Science Dojo, Abzu

	Oracle Cloud
Website	www.oracle.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2016
Data Center Locations	39
Example Customers	Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia

	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