What the terms say

A price tells you what an hour costs. The terms tell you what the provider may do during that hour and after it. Two GPU clouds with the same price can differ on every point that matters when something goes wrong.

Terms are public and dated, so they can be checked. That makes them review material. Impressions of a support team cannot be checked the same way, so this site leaves them out.

Read how you pay: prepaid credit, or a card billed afterwards. Read whether unused credit expires and whether it can be refunded. Read whether a term paid ahead can be cancelled, and what comes back if it is.

Read the minimum top-up as well. It is the real price of trying the service.

Read whether the provider may stop or take back a machine you rent at the on-demand rate, and with how much notice. A spot machine can always be taken. An on-demand machine should not be, and the terms say whether that is a commitment.

Look for an uptime commitment and what it pays when missed. Many GPU offers carry none. A review should say so plainly.

Read what happens to a disk when the machine stops, when your balance reaches zero and when the account closes. Some providers delete at once. Some keep data for a stated number of days.

Read who may access the machine and its storage, and where the data is kept. If region matters to you, the terms and the order form are where a location becomes a commitment.

Most terms list work the provider will not host, and limits that apply to a new account. A quota is often set here or in the account documentation. If your work is near any line, ask before you load data.

Note the date the terms were last changed and the date you read them. Copy the sentence that answers each question above. A review that quotes the sentence can be checked. A review that summarizes it has to be trusted.

On Runcrate one prepaid balance pays for GPUs, models and storage. Billing is by the second on most GPUs, and booting is never billed. A machine can be prepaid for a term at a discount once your hours are known. Read Runcrate’s own terms on its site before you rely on any summary of them.

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