Nebius vs Runpod
A side-by-side comparison of Nebius and Runpod, two Inference tools, drawn from Ignaite's continuously-verified listings.
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At a glance
The honest brief
Nebius
Covers the full AI stack from bare-metal GPU clusters up to managed per-token inference, where many GPU clouds stop at raw compute.
- Latest NVIDIA silicon, H100 through Blackwell
- Managed Slurm and Kubernetes built in
- Token Factory per-token inference layer
- Nasdaq-listed, with Microsoft and Meta deals
- AI-only cloud — few general-purpose services
- Younger ecosystem than the big general clouds
Runpod
Serverless GPU inference billed by the millisecond and scaling to zero, so idle endpoints cost nothing unlike fixed GPU rentals.
- Serverless auto-scaling inference
- Sub-200ms cold starts
- Secure and Community Cloud GPU tiers
- On-demand Pods and clusters too
- Community Cloud less reliable/secure
- GPU availability varies
- Self-managed model serving