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Glossary

Billing unit

Answer in brief

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.

Billing unit in practice

The unit matters for short and uneven work. A ten-minute run billed by the hour costs a full hour. Billed by the second it costs ten minutes.

Check two details beside the unit: whether each start carries a minimum charge, and whether the minutes a machine takes to boot are 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 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.

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.

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. “Billing unit.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://gpucloudreviews.com/glossary/billing-unit