GPU Providers
APIPod supports RunPod, Scaleway, and Azure-backed Socaity Cloud. Compare GPU fleets, regions, pricing, and compliance to pick the right provider for your workload.
RunPod
Most popular
Global crowd-sourced GPU marketplace. Largest selection of GPU types, lowest prices. Ideal for cost-sensitive and experimental workloads.
--provider runpod
Scaleway
EU data residency
European cloud with H100 and L4 instances. Best choice for GDPR-sensitive workloads or EU latency requirements.
--provider scaleway
Socaity Cloud
Managed
Azure-backed managed tier with SLA guarantees, built-in monitoring, and Socaity support. Best for production and enterprise use.
--provider azure
| Feature | RunPod | Scaleway | Socaity Cloud (Azure) |
|---|---|---|---|
| Serverless | Yes | Not supported | No (coming soon) |
| Dedicated GPU | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Spot / preemptible | Yes (30–70% discount) | No | Yes |
| GDPR / EU data residency | Partial (EU region) | Full (Paris/Amsterdam) | Configurable |
| SLA | No | 99.9% | 99.95% |
| Network storage | Yes (up to 50 TB) | Yes (100 GB+) | Yes (Azure Blob) |
| Min billing unit | 1 second | 1 minute | 1 second |
| Support | Community / Discord | Ticket (48h SLA) | Dedicated CSM |
| GPU | VRAM | RunPod | Scaleway | Socaity Cloud |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA T4 | 16 GB | Serverless + Dedicated | — | Dedicated |
| NVIDIA L4 | 24 GB | Dedicated | Dedicated | Dedicated |
| NVIDIA A10G | 24 GB | Serverless + Dedicated | — | Dedicated |
| NVIDIA A100 40G | 40 GB | Serverless + Dedicated | — | Dedicated |
| NVIDIA A100 80G | 80 GB | Serverless + Dedicated | — | Serverless + Dedicated |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | 80 GB | Serverless + Dedicated | Dedicated | Serverless + Dedicated |
| Provider | Regions | Latency (from EU) | Data Residency |
|---|---|---|---|
| RunPod | US East/West, EU West, APAC (Singapore, Japan) | 20–80ms | Region-scoped |
| Scaleway | EU (Paris, Amsterdam) | 5–15ms | EU-only |
| Socaity Cloud | Global (20+ Azure regions) | 5–50ms | Configurable |
| If you need… | Choose | Why |
|---|---|---|
| Lowest cost, flexible GPU types | RunPod | Largest marketplace, competitive spot prices. |
| GDPR compliance / EU data residency | Scaleway | All data stays in EU, DPA available. |
| Production SLA + managed support | Socaity Cloud | 99.95% SLA, dedicated CSM, Azure reliability. |
| H100 for frontier model fine-tuning | RunPod or Socaity Cloud | Both offer H100 SXM at scale. |
| Zero DevOps, fully managed | Socaity Cloud | Built-in monitoring, auto-scaling, and alerting. |
Today,
apipod --build --provider runpod targets RunPod serverless EU. Multi-provider builds (e.g. --provider scaleway) and DNS-level load balancing across providers are coming soon. CLI status today.
apipod --build is live and handles the build step. The unified socaity config set and socaity deploy commands shown below are Coming Soon and will mirror apipod for convenience. terminal
# Set provider via flag
apipod --build --provider runpod
# Or via apipod.json config
{
"provider": "runpod",
"compute": "serverless"
}