Issue 14 · 1 May 2026

Runpod is the H100 deal of 2026.

Or, why we cancelled our Lambda Reserved contract on Tuesday. Six weeks of benchmarks, three tiers, one honest verdict.

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comparison 5 min read

RTX 3090 Cloud Pricing: Runpod, Vast.ai, Vultr Compared

We pitted three providers against each other for budget 3090 rentals, tracking costs, stability, and real-world performance for ML workloads.

  • gpu
  • comparison
  • rtx3090
comparison 5 min read

Runpod Bare-Metal vs Serverless: Llama 3 8B Cost and Latency

We put Llama 3 8B through its paces on Runpod's bare-metal pods and their Serverless platform, measuring real costs, cold starts, and throughput.

  • gpu
  • comparison
  • runpod
comparison 8 min read

A100 Cloud Pricing: Runpod, Vultr, Lambda, Vast.ai Battle for Your DL Dollars

We put four A100 providers through our standard LLM inference benchmark and tracked every dollar, queue, and cold-start in the weeks leading up to May 2026.

  • gpu
  • comparison
  • a100
comparison 11 min read

H200 Cloud Pricing: The Hunt for Nvidia's Newest GPU

We scoured Runpod, Lambda Labs, and Vultr for Nvidia's H200, comparing listed prices, actual availability, and the hidden costs that follow the hype.

  • gpu
  • comparison
  • h200
comparison 10 min read

Nvidia L40S: Does Vultr, Runpod, or Lambda Labs justify the cost?

We rented L40S instances from three providers for a week to see where your inference dollars go farthest.

  • gpu
  • comparison
  • l40s
comparison 10 min read

RTX 4090 Cloud Rentals: SDXL Performance vs. Price

We put Runpod, Vast.ai, and Vultr's RTX 4090 instances through their paces with Stable Diffusion XL workloads.

  • gpu
  • comparison
  • runpod
comparison 9 min read

Egress Fees Still Trap You in 2026: A Four-Provider Audit

We dug into AWS, Azure, GCP, and Cloudflare R2 to see if the data gravity problem has actually improved.

  • egress
  • pricing
  • cloud
review 10 min read

Runpod Serverless Cold Starts: A Thousand Invocations, Three Weeks Later

We measured cold start latency for a common PyTorch model across 1,000 invocations on Runpod Serverless.

  • runpod
  • serverless
  • gpu
review 14 min read

Runpod review: bare-metal H100s without the enterprise tax

Six weeks on Runpod across Community Cloud, Secure Cloud, and Serverless. The benchmarks, the bills, and where it falls short of AWS and Lambda.

  • gpu
  • review
  • runpod
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