Runpod vs SwissGPU
Runpod is a global GPU rental marketplace with both community and secure cloud tiers. SwissGPU offers dedicated bare-metal hosted only in Switzerland with per-minute billing.
What's good about...
Runpod
- 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
SwissGPU
- Per-minute billing, stops when server is powered off
- Dedicated bare-metal, no shared VMs
- Switzerland-hosted with low latency to EU
- No storage or bandwidth charges
- Stripe payments including TWINT
Price comparison
How do Runpod's prices compare against SwissGPU?
VM Small
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VM Medium
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VM Large
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Block Storage
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Free egress allowance
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance
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SwissGPU Pricing Details
Per-minute billing in CHF; the server price is the only compute charge. Electricity billed separately at CHF 0.30/kWh, with a CHF 0.50 OS reinstall fee. Payments via Stripe, including TWINT.
GPU Fleet Overview
Same GPU, Both Providers
On-demand price per GPU-hour.
Runpod
SwissGPU
RTX PRO 6000
$2.09
$1.84
RTX 5090
$0.69
$0.61
RTX 4090
$0.34
$0.49
RTX 3090
$0.22
$0.31
Billing Options
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Available Models
Runpod offers 35 GPU models, while SwissGPU offers 7.
Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
Which services do they offer
Here are some managed services that Runpod and SwissGPU offer:
Company details
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Runpod
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SwissGPU
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|---|---|---|
| Website | www.runpod.io | www.swissgpu.ch |
| Headquarters |
United States of America 
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Switzerland 
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| Founded | 2022 | -- |
| Data Center Locations | 32 | 1 |
| Example Customers | Zillow, CivitAI, Wix, OpenAI, Perplexity, Cursor | EduID, Liset Capital, SPH |
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Our data for Runpod was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for SwissGPU on Aug. 31, 2026.