RunningHub GPU tiers compared: what Standard, Plus and Ultra really cost

RunningHub offers three GPU tiers. The published price table makes the bigger ones look like a small step up. I measured what my own tasks were actually billed, and the gap is much bigger.

The published table

Tier	VRAM	Per minute	Per hour
Standard	24 GB	$0.012	$0.70
Plus	48 GB	$0.015	$0.90
Ultra	84 GB	$0.023	$1.35

On paper, Plus is 1.3x Standard and Ultra is 1.9x.

What I was actually billed

RunningHub's outputs API returns two fields for every finished task: consumeCoins (what it cost) and taskCostTime (GPU seconds). Dividing one by the other gives the real price per GPU-minute:

Tier	Coins per GPU-minute	vs Standard
Standard	12.3	1x
Plus	24.3	2.0x
Ultra	36.0	2.9x

Standard lines up with the table at roughly 1 coin = $0.001 (my inference, since 12.3 coins a minute matches $0.012). Plus and Ultra come out about 1.5x more expensive per minute than the table suggests.

The Ultra figure comes from three 6-second MiniMax H3 clips at 1344x768: 142, 132 and 143 coins for 236, 220 and 238 GPU seconds.

Same job, two tiers

One H3 video shot, rendered on both:

Tier	Coins	GPU seconds
Standard	21-22	~105
Plus	38	94

Plus finished about 10% faster and cost about 1.8x the coins.

When to use which

• Standard for every test. Prompts, seeds, LoRA strengths, new workflows. Most of these renders get thrown away.
• Plus or Ultra only for the final render of something you have already approved, or when a job genuinely does not fit in 24 GB.

Judge cost by consumeCoins, not by your coin balance. RunningHub adds a daily bonus (100 coins a day on my account) when you use it, so the balance can drop less than the work actually cost.

Measured on: RunningHub, October 2026. Prices change, so measure your own tasks the same way before planning a big batch.