From sign-up to a working GPU

Count the steps between opening the site and typing a command on the GPU. Create an account. Verify an email or an identity. Add money. Pass any approval for the GPU you want. Choose a machine. Wait for it to boot. Log in.

Each step takes seconds, or it stops you for a day. A review should say which, for a new account, on a stated date.

Three steps stop most people. A quota of zero for large GPUs, raised only on request. A sales form in place of a start button. And a payment hold while the provider reviews a new card.

None of these shows on the price page. All of them show within ten minutes of trying.

A large GPU machine can take minutes to become usable. Two questions follow. How long is it, and is it billed? Time it from the click to the first login, and read the charge afterwards.

For work that starts and stops often, boot time is part of every run. For a week of training it hardly counts.

Note what the machine arrives with: a bare operating system, or an image with drivers and common frameworks in place. An hour spent installing drivers on a B300 is an hour billed at a B300 rate. On 12 Nov 2026, the median listed B300 price here was $9.50 per GPU-hour.

Write the date, the GPU, the region, each step and its time. Add the exact words of any refusal. This is the part of a review that goes stale fastest and helps most, so date it.

A GPU on Runcrate launches in about four minutes, and the time it spends booting is not on the bill. Ready images cover the common starts: Devbox, Finetune and Inference crates.

One command adds Runcrate to Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, with browser sign-in and no key to paste, so an agent can launch a GPU with a real shell.

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