Place to run it · Pictures, Video, Voice and speech

Runpod

Rents graphics cards (GPUs) by the second so you can run AI models yourself, plus ready-made endpoints for popular image, video and speech models. Aimed at developers; no subscription.

Go to Runpod’s website

At a glance

Open or closed
Closed
Only usable through the maker's app or API
Hosting service is proprietary; openness of hosted models varies.
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Licence
Runpod Terms of Service (The maker's own terms)
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Can I sell what I make?
Depends on the model you choose
Runpod claims no ownership of your content; output rights depend on each model's licence.
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Cost
No free plan.
Plans below.
How you use it
Maker's own API, In your browser
Web console for pods; API for serverless and public endpoints; Hub of open-source templates.
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Skill needed
Technical
Inferred: you manage GPU machines or call an API.
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Made by
Runpod, Inc. (US)
Address: 329 Bryant St, San Francisco, United States.
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Status
Available
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What you can make with it

text to imageimage to imagetext to videoimage to videotext to audioaudio to texttext to text

Public endpoints cover image, video, speech and text models; rented GPUs can run anything.
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Plans and prices

PlanPriceIncludes
Pod: RTX 4090 (24 GB)$0.89 per hours of fast generation
Per hour on demand, billed by the second.
Commercial use: Depends on the model you choose
Pod: H100 80 GB PCIe$2.89 per hours of fast generation
Per hour on demand.
Commercial use: Depends on the model you choose
Serverless: RTX 4090$1.10 per hours of fast generation
Per hour, billed by the second.
Commercial use: Depends on the model you choose
Public endpoint: Qwen Image$0.02 per image
Per request.
Commercial use: Depends on the model you choose
Public endpoint: FLUX.1 [dev]$0.02 per megapixel
Per megapixel.
Commercial use: Depends on the model you choose
Public endpoint: Wan 2.2 T2V 720p$0.30 per results (approximate)
Per 5-second 720p video.
Commercial use: Depends on the model you choose

Some plans are not listed here; see the source for the full list.

Prices shown as '$' only; USD assumed. Billed per second. Also A100 80 GB pod $1.79/hr, H100 SXM $3.99/hr; storage from $0.05/GB/month.
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Rough cost of one standard image: about $0.02 / £0.015 (estimate, worked out by Plainly, not a price the maker publishes). Qwen Image public endpoint at $0.02 per request (one image). GBP at 0.75.

Rough cost of 5 seconds of 720p video: about $0.30 / £0.225 (estimate, worked out by Plainly, not a price the maker publishes). Wan 2.2 text-to-video 720p, 5 s at $0.30 per request. GBP at 0.75.

Rights and safety

Trains on your work?
The terms don't say clearly
Terms let Runpod use content in aggregated, anonymized form to improve the service; model training not mentioned.
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Related

Models you can run here

Qwen-Image, FLUX.1 [dev], FLUX.1 Kontext, FLUX.1 [schnell], Seedream 4.0, Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana), Wan 2.1, Wan 2.2, Seedance, Whisper, Chatterbox

Other options for “A picture, from a description”

Adobe Express, Adobe Firefly, Adobe Photoshop, Akool, Artbreeder, Bria, Canva AI (Magic Studio), ChatGPT Images, Civitai, Clipdrop, ComfyUI, Creatify, DeeVid AI, DiffusionBee, DomoAI, Draw Things, Dreamina, Dzine, fal, Filmora, FlexClip, FLUX.1 [dev], FLUX.1 [schnell], FLUX.1 Kontext

About this entry

Facts last checked 12 Oct 2026 against the maker’s own pages (each fact links to its source). Entry status: draft. Plain-English summary written by Plainly.