Krutrim Cloud vs RunPod Pods

In short

• Both: Command line, API, Official SDKs, Runs models for you
• Only Krutrim Cloud states: Runs commands, VS Code, Choice of models, Builds agents and workflows, Traces and evaluates

Krutrim Cloud

Krutrim Cloud provides GPU and CPU compute, storage, networking, Kubernetes, AI Pods, and AI model services.

Plans

Sandbox Compute — nano

• ₹1.56 /hr

• 0.25 vCPUs
• 0.5 GiB memory
• 20 GB disk

Sandbox Compute — small

• ₹2.91 /hr

• 0.5 vCPUs
• 1 GiB memory
• 20 GB disk

Sandbox Compute — medium

• ₹5.61 /hr

• 1 vCPU
• 2 GiB memory
• 20 GB disk

Sandbox Compute — large

• ₹11.01 /hr

• 2 vCPUs
• 4 GiB memory
• 20 GB disk

Sandbox Compute — x-Large

• ₹21.81 /hr

• 4 vCPUs
• 8 GiB memory
• 20 GB disk

Sandbox Volume storage

• ₹0.011 /GB-hour
• ₹8 /GB-month

GPU Instance — A100 80 GB × 1

• ₹189 /hr
• ₹148 /hr (Monthly)
• ₹132 /hr (6-month)
• ₹98 /hr (1-year)

• 96 GB RAM
• 80 GB GPU memory
• 24 vCPUs

GPU Instance — H100 × 1

• ₹213 /hr
• ₹198 /hr (Monthly)
• ₹186 /hr (6-month)
• ₹173 /hr (1-year)

• 200 GB RAM
• 80 GB GPU memory
• 24 vCPUs

GPU Instance — H100 × 2

• ₹426 /hr
• ₹396 /hr (Monthly)
• ₹372 /hr (6-month)
• ₹346 /hr (1-year)

• 400 GB RAM
• 160 GB GPU memory
• 48 vCPUs

GPU Instance — H100 × 4

• ₹852 /hr
• ₹792 /hr (Monthly)
• ₹744 /hr (6-month)
• ₹692 /hr (1-year)

• 800 GB RAM
• 320 GB GPU memory
• 96 vCPUs

Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

• Runs commands — “Create a sandbox, run a command, stream the output, and you’re done:” source
• VS Code — “Connect VS Code” source
• Command line — “Python MCP CLI Terraform Live terminal” source
• Choice of models — “Krutrim Cloud's AI Studio offers access to a diverse catalogue of open-source and in-house AI models for text generation, embeddings, speech, and multimodal use cases.” source
• API — “AWS-compatible APIs for zero-friction migration.” source
• Official SDKs — “Python, Go, Java, Rust, and MCP integrations.” source
• Runs models for you — “Run distributed training on GPU clusters, deploy low-latency inference, and fine-tune models with fully managed pipelines.” source
• Builds agents and workflows — “MCP server support, AI agent frameworks, and real-time streaming inference APIs.” source
• Traces and evaluates — “The cost of running Model Evaluations and Performance Evaluations on the Krutrim platform is the same as inference — based on the number of tokens processed.” source

RunPod Pods

RunPod Pods are dedicated cloud GPU instances for AI development, training, inference, batch jobs, and long-running workloads.

Plans

B300

• $6.94 /hr (Community Cloud)
• $ 7.89 /hr (Secure Cloud)

• 288 GB HBM3e
• 251 GB RAM
• 32 vCPUs

H200

• $3.59 /hr (Community Cloud)
• $ 4.59 /hr (Secure Cloud)

• 141 GB VRAM
• 276 GB RAM
• 24 vCPUs

B200

• $5.98 /hr (Community Cloud)
• $ 6.79 /hr (Secure Cloud)

• 180 GB VRAM
• 283 GB RAM
• 28 vCPUs

RTX Pro 6000

• $1.69 /hr (Community Cloud)
• $ 2.09 /hr (Secure Cloud)

• 96 GB VRAM
• 188 GB RAM
• 16 vCPUs

H100 NVL

• $2.59 /hr (Community Cloud)
• $ 3.19 /hr (Secure Cloud)

• 94 GB VRAM
• 94 GB RAM
• 16 vCPUs

H100 PCIe

• $1.99 /hr (Community Cloud)
• $ 2.89 /hr (Secure Cloud)

• 80 GB VRAM
• 188 GB RAM
• 16 vCPUs

H100 SXM

• $2.69 /hr (Community Cloud)
• $ 3.49 /hr (Secure Cloud)

• 80 GB VRAM
• 125 GB RAM
• 20 vCPUs

A100 PCIe

• $1.19 /hr (Community Cloud)
• $ 1.59 /hr (Secure Cloud)

• 80 GB VRAM
• 117 GB RAM
• 8 vCPUs

A100 SXM

• $1.39 /hr (Community Cloud)
• $ 1.59 /hr

• 80 GB VRAM
• 125 GB RAM
• 16 vCPUs

Pro 6000 MIG 48GB

• $ 1.09 /hr

• 48 GB VRAM
• 62 GB RAM
• 8 vCPUs

Prices checked 2026-09-25 on the maker’s page.

Capabilities

• Command line — “CLI & SDKs. Deploy and manage directly from your terminal.” source
• API — “Full API access. Automate everything with a simple, flexible API.” source
• Official SDKs — “CLI & SDKs. Deploy and manage directly from your terminal.” source
• Runs models for you — “Run API-based AI workloads with serverless GPU endpoints.” source

Latest updates

• 2026-09-15 Global Volumes - Beta

  Mount it at startup across any region; no copying data between data centers required.

• 2026-09-14 Nano Banana Edit

  The Nano Banana Edit endpoint will be retired September 28, 2026. Migrate to Nano Banana 2 Edit.

• 2026-09-10 Sales tax and tax ID support

  Runpod collects sales tax on credit purchases. Add a business tax ID at checkout or in your account settings.