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GPUs in EuropeEdition of 12 Nov 2026
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Glossary

Per-second billing

Answer in brief

Per-second billing charges for the exact time a machine ran, to the second, at the hourly rate divided down.

Per-second billing in practice

The unit matters for short and uneven work, and for testing regions. Starting a machine in two countries to compare delay costs minutes, not hours, when minutes are what you are billed.

Check two details beside the unit: whether each start carries a minimum charge, and whether boot time is billed. Runcrate bills by the second on most GPUs, a few by the minute, and never bills booting.

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.

Per-second billing charges for the exact time a machine ran, to the second, at the hourly rate divided down.

Sources for this entry

  1. Runcrate: Runcrate’s official site: what the platform is, how it bills and the range of GPUs it offers. Read 12 Nov 2026.
  2. 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.
  3. 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.
  4. 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. “Per-second billing.” Content reviewed 12 Nov 2026. https://gpucloudeurope.com/glossary/per-second-billing