Pricing

Learn how Serverless billing works to optimize your costs.

Runpod offers custom pricing plans for large scale and enterprise workloads. Contact our sales team to learn more.

Serverless offers pay-per-second pricing with no upfront costs. You’re billed from when a worker starts until it fully stops, rounded up to the nearest second.

Worker types

	Flex workers	Active workers
Behavior	Scale to zero when idle	Always running (24/7)
Pricing	Standard per-second rate	Discounts available through sales inquiry
Best for	Variable workloads, cost optimization	Consistent traffic, low-latency requirements

What you’re billed for

Your total cost includes compute time and storage:

Cost component	Description	Rate
Compute	GPU time while workers run	See the Runpod pricing page
Container disk	Worker storage (5-min intervals)	~$0.10/GB/month
Network volume	Shared persistent storage	$0.07/GB/month (< 1TB), $0.05/GB/month (> 1TB)

Compute cost breakdown

Workers incur charges during three phases:

1. Start time: Initializing the container and loading models into GPU memory. Minimize with FlashBoot or model caching.

2. Execution time: Processing requests. Set execution timeouts to prevent runaway jobs.

3. Idle timeout duration: The time a worker remains active (running) after completing a request, waiting for additional requests before scaling down (default: 5 seconds). Configure in endpoint settings.

For high-volume workloads with significant storage needs, use network volumes to share data across workers and reduce per-worker storage costs.

Account limits

Spend limit: Default limit of $80/hour across all resources. Contact support to increase.

Billing support

If you believe you’ve been billed incorrectly, contact support, including the following information in your ticket:

• Endpoint ID
• Request ID (if applicable)
• Approximate time of the issue