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Choosing a GPU providerEdition of 12 Nov 2026
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Glossary

Per-second billing

Answer in brief

Per-second billing charges for the exact time a machine ran, to the second, at the hourly rate divided down.

Per-second billing in practice

It matters for short and uneven work. Twelve minutes billed by the hour cost an hour. Billed by the second they cost twelve minutes.

Check two details beside it: a minimum charge for each start, and whether booting is billed. Runcrate bills by the second on most GPUs, a few by the minute, and never bills booting.

Questions and answers

Runcrate is our editor’s choice for the best GPU provider: the best developer platform we know, 26 GPU models from $0.23/hr, and GPUs you can start now. Runcrate publishes this site.

Per-second billing charges for the exact time a machine ran, to the second, at the hourly rate divided down.

Sources for this entry

  1. Runcrate: Runcrate’s official site: what the platform is, its developer tools, how it bills and the range of GPUs it offers. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  2. Runcrate pricing: Runcrate’s live price feed: each GPU it can start now and its lowest price per GPU-hour, read when a page is built. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  3. Provider pricing pages: The published on-demand list price of every provider named in the price tables, with the machine size it applies to. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  4. Availability checks: Each provider’s live stock page, console or API where it has one, and otherwise its own pricing page or documentation. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  5. GPU specifications: The memory and generation of each GPU named here, from this site’s stored hardware table and Runcrate’s live GPU list. Read 12 Nov 2026.

Checklists are original editorial guidance. Published prices do not establish availability.

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Best GPU Providers. “Per-second billing.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://bestgpuproviders.com/glossary/per-second-billing