Google's pricing also assumes you're running it 24/7 for an entire month, where as this is just the hourly price for runpod.io or vast.ai which both bill per second. Wasn't able to find Google's spot pricing for GPUs.
Where did you get the pricing for vast.ai here? Looking at their pricing page, I don't see any 8xH200 options for less than $21.65 an hour (and most are more than that).
> Google's pricing also assumes you're running it 24/7 for an entire month
What makes you think that?
Cloud Run [pricing page](https://cloud.google.com/run/pricing) explicitly says : "charge you only for the resources you use, rounded up to the nearest 100 millisecond"
Because the pricing when creating an instance shows me the cost for the entire month, then works out the average hourly price based on that. This is just creating a GPU VM instance, I don't see how to see the cost of different NVidia GPUs without it.
If you wanted to show hourly pricing, you would show that first, then calculate the monthly price from the hourly rate. I've no idea if the monthly cost includes sustained usage discount and what the hourly cost is for just running it for an hour.
You can just go to "create compute instance" to see the spot pricing.
Eg GCP price for spot 1xH100 is $2.55/hr, lower with sustained use discounts. But only hobbyists pay these prices, any company is going to ask for a discount and will get it.
RunPod also charges per second [1], also this is Google's expected avg cost per hour after running it 24/7 for an entire month, I couldn't find an hourly cost for each GPU.
When you need under <1hr than you can go with Runpod's Spot pricing which is ~4-7x cheaper than Google, where even 20min of Google would cost more than 1hr on RunPod.
