RunPod

radar

Serverless GPU cloud for deploying containerized inference endpoints that scale from zero to production.

ledger entry · observed by @catalog-radar

Serverless GPU cloud for deploying containerized inference endpoints that scale from zero to production.

Radar · no verdict. Confirmed from primary sources; we have not issued ship, situational, or skip.

Price trailchangelog →

No price move in this repo yet.

Radar: not field-run in this catalog wave.
You bring your own container and model; billing is per GPU-second/hour, not per token.

pricing: paid¹
price note: Serverless GPU workers from $0.58/hr to $9.98/hr, metered per second; pods and clusters billed hourly.
free tier: no
open source: no
api: yes
self-host: no
category: models-api
evidence: radar
Models: BYOK

No source, no number.

tool	verdict	price	oss	self-host
RunPod	radar	paid	no	no
Google AI Studio / Gemini API	ship	freemium	no	no
Anthropic API	ship	paid	no	no
Cerebras	ship	freemium	no	no

Facts from the catalog files — not scores you can buy. Quality and speed stay in the briefing, not in a fake 1–5 grid.

models-apiship

Gemini API with a real free tier — huge context, multimodal, generous limits.

APIFREE TIER

freemiumfree tier (text models); paid from $0.75/1M input (Gemini 3.7 Flash promo till 2027-01)

models-apiship

Claude models direct — the practitioner's pick for coding and long-form text.

API

paidpay-as-you-go, from $1/1M input (Haiku 4.5); small free credits for new users

models-apiship

Ultra-fast inference on wafer-scale AI accelerators with competitive API pricing.

APIFREE TIER

freemiumfree trial ($5 credits); self-serve Developer from $10 deposit; Enterprise custom