What is the difference between Runcrate and SwissGPU?

Runcrate and SwissGPU are both cloud GPU providers offering different pricing models, features, and GPU availability. Use our comparison tool to see real-time pricing and feature differences.

Which is cheaper: Runcrate or SwissGPU?

Pricing varies by GPU model and usage requirements. Check our real-time comparison table to find the best deals for your specific needs.

Can I switch between Runcrate and SwissGPU?

Yes, both providers offer flexible cloud GPU services. However, consider factors like data transfer costs, setup time, and specific features when switching between providers.

How many GPU models are available for comparison?

We track pricing for 19 different GPU models across both Runcrate and SwissGPU, with 0 models available from both providers.

Runcrate vs SwissGPU

Compare GPU and LLM inference API pricing between Runcrate and SwissGPU. Find the best rates for AI training, inference, and ML workloads.

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Runcrate GPUs

SwissGPU GPUs

Direct Comparisons

Average Price Difference: $0.15/hour between comparable GPUs

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 19Both available: 2Runcrate: 15SwissGPU: 6

Showing 15 of 19 GPUs

Last updated: 10/10/2026, 8:38:55 PM

GPU Model ↑	Runcrate Price	SwissGPU Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A10 24GB VRAM • Runcrate	$1.68/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
A10 24GB VRAM • Runcrate $1.68/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Runcrate	$1.76/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Runcrate $1.76/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Runcrate	$1.82/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Runcrate $1.82/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Runcrate	$3.25/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Runcrate $3.25/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
H200 141GB VRAM • Runcrate	$4.24/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
H200 141GB VRAM • Runcrate $4.24/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
L4 24GB VRAM • Runcrate	$1.23/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
L4 24GB VRAM • Runcrate $1.23/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
L40 40GB VRAM • Runcrate	$1.14/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
L40 40GB VRAM • Runcrate $1.14/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
L40S 48GB VRAM • Runcrate	$1.14/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
L40S 48GB VRAM • Runcrate $1.14/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
RTX 3090 24GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.30/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 3090 24GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.30/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU
RTX 4080 16GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.24/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 4080 16GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.24/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.48/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.48/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU
RTX 5080 16GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.30/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 5080 16GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.30/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU
RTX 5090 32GB VRAM • RuncrateSwissGPU	$0.85/hr	$0.60/hr★ Best	↑+$0.25(+41.3%)	Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed SwissGPU
RTX 5090 32GB VRAM • Runcrate $0.85/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 SwissGPU $0.60/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$0.25(+41.3%) Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed SwissGPU
RTX 6000 Ada 48GB VRAM • RuncrateSwissGPU	$1.26/hr	$1.20/hr★ Best	↑+$0.06(+4.7%)	Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed SwissGPU
RTX 6000 Ada 48GB VRAM • Runcrate $1.26/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 SwissGPU $1.20/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$0.06(+4.7%) Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed SwissGPU
RTX A4000 16GB VRAM • Runcrate	$1.04/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
RTX A4000 16GB VRAM • Runcrate $1.04/hour Updated: 10/9/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed

A10 24GB VRAM • Runcrate	$1.68/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
A10 24GB VRAM • Runcrate $1.68/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Runcrate	$1.76/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Runcrate $1.76/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Runcrate	$1.82/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Runcrate $1.82/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Runcrate	$3.25/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Runcrate $3.25/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
H200 141GB VRAM • Runcrate	$4.24/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
H200 141GB VRAM • Runcrate $4.24/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
L4 24GB VRAM • Runcrate	$1.23/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
L4 24GB VRAM • Runcrate $1.23/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
L40 40GB VRAM • Runcrate	$1.14/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
L40 40GB VRAM • Runcrate $1.14/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
L40S 48GB VRAM • Runcrate	$1.14/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
L40S 48GB VRAM • Runcrate $1.14/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
RTX 3090 24GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.30/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 3090 24GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.30/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU
RTX 4080 16GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.24/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 4080 16GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.24/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.48/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.48/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU
RTX 5080 16GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.30/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 5080 16GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.30/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU
RTX 5090 32GB VRAM • RuncrateSwissGPU	$0.85/hr	$0.60/hr★ Best	↑+$0.25(+41.3%)	Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed SwissGPU
RTX 5090 32GB VRAM • Runcrate $0.85/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 SwissGPU $0.60/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$0.25(+41.3%) Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed SwissGPU
RTX 6000 Ada 48GB VRAM • RuncrateSwissGPU	$1.26/hr	$1.20/hr★ Best	↑+$0.06(+4.7%)	Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed SwissGPU
RTX 6000 Ada 48GB VRAM • Runcrate $1.26/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 SwissGPU $1.20/hour Updated: 10/10/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$0.06(+4.7%) Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed SwissGPU
RTX A4000 16GB VRAM • Runcrate	$1.04/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed
RTX A4000 16GB VRAM • Runcrate $1.04/hour Updated: 10/9/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Runcrate GPU Pricing Feed

LLM API Pricing Comparison

Total models: 21Both available: 0Runcrate: 21SwissGPU: 0

Showing 15 of 21 models

Prices per 1M tokens · Last updated: 10/10/2026, 8:38:55 PM

Model ↑	Runcrate	SwissGPU	Input Diff ↕
Claude 4 Sonnet Anthropic	$3.00 in $15.00 out	Not available	—
DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B DeepSeek	$0.800 in $0.800 out	Not available	—
Gemma 3 27B Google	$0.080 in $0.160 out	Not available	—
Gemma 3 4B Google	$0.050 in $0.100 out	Not available	—
Gemma 4 31B Google	$0.090 in $0.340 out	Not available	—
GLM-5 Zhipu	$0.600 in $1.92 out	Not available	—
Hermes 3 - Llama-3.1 70B Nous Research	$0.700 in $0.700 out	Not available	—
Hy3-preview Tencent	$0.130 in $0.530 out	Not available	—
Inkling-Small Thinking Machines Lab	$0.450 in $1.20 out	Not available	—
Kimi K2.5 Moonshot	$0.450 in $2.25 out	Not available	—
Llama 3.1 Nemotron 70B NVIDIA	$1.20 in $1.20 out	Not available	—
Llama 3.2 11B Vision Meta	$0.340 in $0.340 out	Not available	—
MiniMax M2.7 MiniMax	$0.380 in $1.70 out	Not available	—
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B NVIDIA	$0.050 in $0.200 out	Not available	—
Nemotron 3 Nano Omni 30B A3B Reasoning NVIDIA	$0.200 in $0.800 out	Not available	—

Features Comparison

Runcrate

Unified inference and compute billing
Token-billed API calls and GPU hours draw on one credit balance with a single invoice, auto-recharge, and credits that do not expire
OpenAI-compatible endpoint
Chat, image, video, text-to-speech, speech-to-text and embedding models served behind OpenAI-compatible REST endpoints, so existing clients switch by changing the base URL
Root access on GPU instances
Bare-metal instances with SSH, Docker and custom images, provisioned in about 60 seconds
Public GPU pricing API
An unauthenticated endpoint publishes the live GPU rate card, refreshed every few minutes
Dedicated clusters
Reserved bare-metal from 16 to 128+ nodes with NVLink fabric and managed Slurm job submission
Developer tooling
Python and TypeScript SDKs, a Vercel AI SDK provider, a CLI for instance and volume management, and an MCP server for controlling the platform from AI assistants

SwissGPU

Dedicated Resources
Every machine is fully dedicated to you, with direct access to GPU, CPU, memory, and storage. There is no virtualization layer and no shared GPU resources.
Isolated GPU Infrastructure
Run AI workloads on isolated GPU resources with secure SSH access.
Permanent Data Wipe
All data and the OS are permanently wiped after server rental ends.
Ultra-Low Latency
Offers ultra-low latency desktops that mimic local experience.
Fully Swiss Hosted
All servers, data, and operations are based in Switzerland.
Per-Minute Billing
Servers are billed per minute and billing stops when the machine is powered off, with no separate storage or network transfer charges.

Pros & Cons

Runcrate

Advantages

Inference API and GPU compute share one account, one credit balance and one bill
Public rate card for both tokens and GPU hours, with no negotiation required to start
OpenAI-compatible API makes migration from other inference providers a base-URL change
Full root access and custom images on GPU instances

Considerations

Volume discounts, uptime SLAs and reserved capacity require contacting sales rather than self-service
Region pinning and compliance commitments (HIPAA eligibility, SOC 2 Type II datacenter partners) are Enterprise-tier only
GPU capacity is sourced multi-cloud rather than from owned datacenters, so placement control is limited on self-serve plans

SwissGPU

Advantages

Dedicated bare-metal GPU and compute resources for each client, with no virtualization layer.
Secure SSH access, with all data and the OS permanently wiped at the end of a rental.
Local-like experience with ultra-low latency remote desktops.
Published hourly rates for every GPU configuration, with per-minute billing and no storage or network fees.

Considerations

Consumer and workstation GPUs only — no datacenter accelerators such as H100 or B200 for large-scale training.
Single location: all capacity is in Switzerland, which adds latency for users outside Europe.
Electricity is metered and billed on top of the hourly rate, so the listed rate is not the full cost.

Compute Services

Runcrate

GPU Instances

Self-service bare-metal GPU instances with root access, custom images and persistent volumes, deployable in about 60 seconds and scalable from 1 to 128 nodes

Dedicated Clusters

Reserved bare-metal clusters from 16 to 128+ nodes with NVLink fabric and managed Slurm, aimed at multi-node pre-training and fine-tuning

SwissGPU

Pricing Options

Runcrate

Pay-per-token inference

Published per-million-token input and output rates on every model in the catalog, with no minimum and no commitment

Usage-based GPU compute

GPU instances metered while running with no minimum commitment — stopping the instance stops the meter

Dedicated capacity

Reserved GPU capacity sized to traffic in exchange for a monthly minimum, priced 40–60% below the public rate card and carrying a 99.9% uptime SLA

Enterprise contracts

Custom contract pricing with bring-your-own-cloud and self-hosted deployments, region pinning, and 99.95%/99.99% SLAs with service credits

SwissGPU

Per-minute on-demand billing

Dedicated physical servers billed per minute, with billing stopping when the server is powered off and no additional storage or network charges.

Prepaid credits

Credits are topped up on the platform at any time, with payments processed by Stripe.

Metered electricity

Power consumption is billed separately per kWh on top of the hourly server rate, and a small fee applies when reinstalling the operating system.

Custom configurations and long-term commitments

Negotiated directly with the provider rather than published as self-service rates.

Getting Started

Runcrate

Get Started

1
Create an account
Sign up through the console and generate an API key
2
Add credits
Fund one balance used by both API calls and GPU hours, optionally with auto-recharge
3
Call the API or deploy an instance
Point an OpenAI-compatible client at the inference endpoint, or launch a GPU instance from the console or CLI

SwissGPU

Get Started

1
Browse available servers
Review the GPU configurations and their CPU, RAM, and NVMe specifications at https://www.swissgpu.ch/rent.
2
Create an account and add credits
Credits can be added to the account at any time; payments are processed through Stripe.
3
Rent a server
Select a configuration and start the rental; billing runs per minute while the server is powered on.
4
Connect to the machine
Access the server over secure SSH, or attach Visual Studio Code using the documented remote workflow.
5
Power off when finished
Billing stops as soon as the server is powered off, and all data and the OS are wiped when the rental ends.

Support & Global Availability

Runcrate

Global Regions

Multi-cloud capacity advertised across North America (Los Angeles, Chicago), Europe (Amsterdam, Frankfurt) and Asia-Pacific (Singapore, Mumbai, Sydney, Tokyo); region pinning to US, EU or APAC is an Enterprise-tier option

Support

Documentation, quickstarts and SDK references; email and community Discord on the self-serve plan; Slack Connect with engineers on Dedicated; named customer success manager and on-call engineering on Enterprise

SwissGPU

Global Regions

Fully hosted in Switzerland; no other regions offered.

Support

Documentation site covering connection workflows and per-framework guides, plus a contact form and email support for technical questions and custom configurations.