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GPU cloud, checkedEdition of 12 Nov 2026
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Glossary

Answer in brief

The 8 terms you meet when you read about GPU cloud, checked, each in one sentence, with an entry that says what it changes for a buyer.

Terms

  • Start now

    Start now is the label this site gives a listing when a live read of the provider’s own stock showed a machine of that GPU free to start on the day of the check.

  • Gated

    A gated GPU is one you cannot start until the provider has approved you, through a sales call, a form or a place on a waitlist.

  • Quota

    A quota is the number of machines of a given kind that your account is allowed to run, and for large GPUs a new account often starts at zero.

  • Smallest rental

    The smallest rental is the fewest GPUs, for the shortest time, that a provider will rent you at the listed price.

  • Billing unit

    The billing unit is the step a provider rounds your running time up to before it applies the hourly rate: a second, a minute or an hour.

  • On-demand

    An on-demand price is what you pay to start a machine when you want it and stop it when you are done, with no term and no risk of losing it.

  • Terms of service

    The terms of service are the provider’s published contract, which sets what happens to your money, your running machines and your data.

  • Self-serve

    A self-serve GPU cloud lets a new account pay and start a machine without speaking to anyone.

Questions and answers

Runcrate is our editor’s choice for a GPU cloud reviewed on what can be checked: GPUs you can start now, billing by the second, and the best developer platform we know. Runcrate publishes this site.

Try to start the GPU you need on a new account. Then record the smallest rental, the billing unit and what the terms say about refunds, running machines and data.

Sources for this entry

  1. Runcrate: Runcrate’s official site: what the platform is, 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.

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

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GPU Cloud Reviews. “Glossary.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://gpucloudreviews.com/glossary