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runpod
Use when running GPU compute on RunPod and deciding between Pods (hourly, always-on) and Serverless (per-second, autoscaling) for training, fine-tuning or inference — serverless endpoints, handler workers, worker Docker templates, network volumes, timeout and worker-count tuning, cold starts, and runaway bills. NOT Python-native serverless GPU with snapshot autoscaling (that is `modal`), NOT calling hosted prebuilt model APIs (that is `replicate`), NOT pulling weights from the Hub (that is `huggingface`).
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# RunPod: GPU compute, two products, one bill
RunPod sells GPU time two ways and they bill on opposite philosophies. Get the choice
wrong and you either pay a steep premium for idle work or you pay 24/7 for a box that
sits warm doing nothing. Everything below is the RunPod-specific operational playbook:
which product a workload belongs on, how to write a worker that does not waste cold-start
seconds, and which knobs actually move the number on the invoice.
The two products:
- **Pods** — rent a GPU container by the hour. It runs continuously while it is up,
billed every hour whether busy or idle. Your dev box, your training job, your Jupyter.
- **Serverless** — per-second autoscaling workers. Billed only while a worker is actually
running a job, from worker start to full stop, rounded up to the second. Costs roughly