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packet.ai vs RunPod

Same NVIDIA L40S.
7% less than RunPod.
No reservation form.

packet.ai is 7% cheaper than RunPod for NVIDIA L40S: $0.92/GPU-hr Dedicated versus RunPod’s $0.99/hr Secure Cloud. packet.ai is fully self-serve with a published rate, a 99.99% uptime SLA, and US East availability built in.

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No credit card 99.99% uptime SLA No reservation form
7%cheaper
NVIDIA L40S · $/GPU-hr
-7%
lower price than RunPodfor the exact same silicon
packet.aiDedicated
$0.92
RunPodSecure Cloud
$0.99
7%
lower price than RunPod Secure Cloud
<5 min
to your first live GPU
99.99%
uptime SLA on Dedicated
$0
to start · no card, no minimums
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packet.aiDedicated · $0.92/hr
$5,373/mo
RunPod$0.99/hr
$5,782/mo
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$5K/year
$409 saved per month
7% lower than RunPod
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Snapshot at 8 NVIDIA L40S GPUs running 24/7 (730 hrs/mo) at packet.ai Dedicated $0.92/GPU-hr vs RunPod Secure Cloud $0.99/GPU-hr (Aug 2026).

Why it’s possible

Full GPU performance.
Published pricing. No reservation queue.

RunPod prices NVIDIA L40S at $0.99/hr Secure Cloud, close to packet.ai's $0.92/hr Dedicated — but packet.ai publishes a single flat rate with a 99.99% uptime SLA built in, no separate reliability tier to opt into.

Published pricing, no form

packet.ai publishes $0.92/hr Dedicated openly for NVIDIA L40S. You can budget from day one without a reservation form, sales call, or approval queue.

Single-GPU access

packet.ai lets you deploy a single NVIDIA L40S Dedicated instance at $0.92/hr — no multi-GPU node minimum, no bundled CPU/RAM line items to configure.

99.99% uptime SLA

packet.ai Dedicated includes a contractual 99.99% uptime SLA on every NVIDIA L40S instance, backed by the platform.

Built by hosted.ai

Not a marketplace.
A 25-year infrastructure company.

packet.ai is the neocloud built by hosted.ai, the team that previously built OnApp and shipped infrastructure at VMware, NVIDIA and the Xen project. We’re doing for GPUs what VMware did for CPUs two decades ago: turning idle, single-tenant hardware into elastic, software-defined capacity. Backed by $23.6M led by Creandum.

PedigreeOnAppVMwareNVIDIAXen / CitrixSunlight.io
25+
years building infrastructure software
6,000+
cloud deployments powered by OnApp
40+
engineers building packet.ai
$23.6M
raised, led by Creandum
The verdict

Which should you choose?

Choose packet.ai if…

  • You want NVIDIA L40S access at a published rate with no reservation form
  • You need a 99.99% uptime SLA with no minimum spend
  • You want single-GPU access, not bundled multi-resource pricing
  • You want inference/rendering-ready GPUs without a sales call

RunPod may fit if…

  • You need RunPod's Community Cloud spot pricing for fault-tolerant batch jobs
  • You want access to RunPod's Serverless auto-scaling endpoints
  • You need RunPod's broad 31-region global footprint
Side by side

packet.ai vs RunPod, in detail.

Capabilitypacket.airecommendedRunPod
NVIDIA L40S rate$0.92 / GPU-hr$0.99 / GPU-hr (Secure Cloud)
Savings vs RunPod7% cheaperBaseline
Access modelSelf-serve, published priceSecure Cloud
Time to first GPUUnder 5 minutesMinutes to hours
Uptime SLA99.99% on DedicatedVaries by tier
Contract requiredNoneVaries by tier
RegionsUS East · Virginia31 global regions
Start freeNo credit cardAccount required

RunPod rate $0.99/GPU-hr (Secure Cloud) as of August 2026.

FAQ

packet.ai vs RunPod, answered.

For anything else, reach help@packet.ai.

Is packet.ai cheaper than RunPod for NVIDIA L40S?
Yes. packet.ai delivers NVIDIA L40S at $0.92/GPU-hr Dedicated, approximately 7% less than RunPod’s $0.99/hr Secure Cloud rate.
Does packet.ai require a reservation form for NVIDIA L40S?
No. packet.ai is fully self-serve: sign up, create an SSH key, and launch a NVIDIA L40S in under 5 minutes with no form or approval queue.
Does packet.ai have a 99.99% SLA for NVIDIA L40S?
Yes. packet.ai Dedicated includes a 99.99% uptime SLA on every NVIDIA L40S instance, with no minimum spend required.
What is NVIDIA L40S best suited for?
NVIDIA L40S (48GB GDDR6, Ada Lovelace) is built for AI inference, fine-tuning, and rendering workloads, offering strong price-to-performance for models that fit in 48GB.
What is packet.ai’s pricing model for NVIDIA L40S?
packet.ai charges a flat $0.92/GPU-hr Dedicated rate for NVIDIA L40S, published openly with no hidden fees. A team running inference on a single NVIDIA L40S pays roughly $5,373/month at 24/7 utilisation.
Can I migrate from RunPod to packet.ai without code changes?
Yes. Both platforms use standard CUDA containers and SSH access. Most workloads migrate with no code changes — same NVIDIA L40S hardware, same CUDA stack.
What regions does packet.ai support vs RunPod for NVIDIA L40S?
packet.ai runs NVIDIA L40S in the US East · Virginia with published pricing and no reservation form. RunPod operates across 31 global regions.

Same GPUs.
7% less. No reservation form.

Switch from RunPod and launch a NVIDIA L40S in under 5 minutes. From $0.92/GPU-hour, published pricing, 99.99% uptime SLA.

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No credit card · published pricing · 99.99% SLA · US