Glossary
Gated
Answer in brief
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.
Gated in practice
A gate is not a stock problem. The provider may have machines free and still require a conversation first. The listed price is real, but it is a price for customers who are already in.
A gate can also be a term. If the only way to get the card is a month paid ahead, the offer is a reserved one and does not compare with an hourly price.
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.
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.
Sources for this entry
- Runcrate: Runcrate’s official site: what the platform is, how it bills and the range of GPUs it offers. Read 12 Nov 2026.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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. “Gated.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://gpucloudreviews.com/glossary/gated