Batch / interruptible GPU jobs

Scores as of 2026-10-19 (8 days old).

Depot Pick

RunPod · 8.34/10 for this job (curated estimate, high confidence)

pricePerf + dx for spot/serverless batch.

Runner-up

Vast.ai · 7.20/10

Scores higher than the pick on: Price / performance, Lock-in risk (higher = worse).

When not to use the pick

Strict deadlines without restart logic — dedicated on-demand.

Lock-in / migration

Runner-up Vast.ai has lower stored lock-in risk (2.5 vs 3.5, 0–10, higher = more lock-in).

Sourced price (usd_per_gpu_hour)

Pick's lowest sourced SKU: RTX 4090 Pod (Community Cloud) $0.34 (usd_per_gpu_hour) — source, as of 2026-10-19

Cheapest matching SKU: SaladCloud RTX 3090 24GB (Lowest priority, batch) $0.09 — source, as of 2026-10-19. Not the pick; not quality-adjusted.

Price history: first seen 2026-10-19 · last changed no change recorded · history JSON

Free option

No free resource lists this job. A cheap paid SKU is not a free option.

Failure modes to watch

• Partial tool success: Require a per-item status and a failure count. Success for the task requires the failed count to be zero or explicitly handed to a retry queue.
• Runaway spend: Set a budget and a tool-call cap per task. Alert when spend jumps. Stop the run at the cap instead of summarizing a partial trace as success.

Reported outcomes (submitted reports only)

This job: loading… JSON · reports never change scores · seed/test records excluded

Depot Pick (RunPod) on this job: loading… JSON · reports never change scores · seed/test records excluded

Same-job, same-unit comparisons: RunPod vs SaladCloud

Cite: Agent Provider Depot, Depot Pick for batch-gpu: runpod, scores as of 2026-10-19. Agents: GET /api/decide?jtbd=batch-gpu