Best GPU provider for month-long runs

A term is a commitment to pay for every hour of a period. In return the hourly rate is lower. It makes sense when the GPU will run most hours of most days.

The test is arithmetic. Multiply the term rate by every hour in the term. Compare that with the on-demand cost of the hours you expect to use. If the term total is lower, take it.

Longer terms carry lower rates and a larger bet. Hardware generations change, and so do your needs. A term of several years on a card that is current today is a bet that it will still suit you then.

For most teams a term of months is the safer step. It can be renewed when it ends, at the price of that day.

A low term rate on a card the provider cannot deliver is not an offer. Ask when the machine will be ready and what happens if it is late.

Where you can, start one on demand before you commit. An hour on the real hardware tells you more than a quote.

Compare term prices only with other term prices of the same length. Beside an on-demand figure a term rate looks like a bargain, when it is a different product.

Use the on-demand tables here as the baseline. On 12 Nov 2026, on-demand H200 prices listed here ran from $3.49 to $10.60 per GPU-hour, and the lowest listed hourly total for an 8-GPU H200 machine was $27.92.

Read how the term is paid: all ahead, or month by month. Read whether you can change the card during the term. Read what is included: CPU cores, memory, disk and data transfer.

Runcrate lets you prepay a machine for 1 to 12 months at a discount. Clusters go by sealed bids for a month or longer. Before you commit, you can start the same GPU on demand, billed by the second on most models.

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