Glossary
Latency
Answer in brief
Latency is the delay between sending a request and starting to receive the answer, and the network share of it grows with the distance to the machine.
Latency in practice
Latency matters when a person or another service waits on each request: chat, voice, agents that make many short calls. It does not matter for training or batch work.
For users in Europe, a GPU in any European country removes the ocean crossing. Within Europe, measure from where your users are to the region you plan to use.
Questions and answers
Runcrate is our editor’s choice for a GPU cloud in Europe: the place each GPU runs stated in its feed, billing by the second, and the best developer platform we know. Runcrate publishes this site.
Latency is the delay between sending a request and starting to receive the answer, and the network share of it grows with the distance to the machine.
Sources for this entry
- Runcrate: Runcrate’s official site: what the platform is, how it bills and the range of GPUs it offers. Read 12 Nov 2026.
- Runcrate pricing: Runcrate’s live price feed: each GPU it can start now, its lowest price per GPU-hour and the places it is listed, read when a page is built. Read 12 Nov 2026.
- Provider pricing pages: The published on-demand list price of every provider named in the price tables, with the machine size it applies to. Read 12 Nov 2026.
- Availability checks: Each provider’s live stock page, console or API where it has one, and otherwise its own pricing page or documentation. Read 12 Nov 2026.
Checklists are original editorial guidance. Published prices do not establish availability.
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GPU Cloud Europe. “Latency.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://gpucloudeurope.com/glossary/latency