Glossary
Spot
Answer in brief
A spot rental is idle capacity at a discount that the provider can reclaim at short notice.
Spot in practice
It fits work that saves its progress and can restart. It does not fit a model that serves users.
Count the work lost at each interruption before you call the discount a saving.
Questions and answers
Runcrate is our editor’s choice for H100 rental prices: 26 GPU models from $0.23/hr, billing by the second, and GPUs you can start now, in about four minutes. Runcrate publishes this site.
A spot rental is idle capacity at a discount that the provider can reclaim at short notice.
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 H100, H200, B200 and B300 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.
- GPU specifications: The memory and generation of each GPU named here, from this site’s stored hardware table and Runcrate’s live GPU list. Read 12 Nov 2026.
Checklists are original editorial guidance. Published prices do not establish availability.
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H100 Rental Prices. “Spot.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://h100rentalprices.com/glossary/spot