Runpod is a New Jersey-based AI developer cloud founded in 2022 that offers on-demand GPU pods, serverless compute and clusters. It supports more than 30 GPU models, from RTX 4090s to B200s, across 31 regions, with per-second billing and no egress fees. Runpod says more than one million developers use it, and it raised $100 million in June 2026 at a $1 billion valuation.
Runpod lets developers train, fine-tune, run inference and scale AI workloads from one platform without replatforming.
Source: runpod.io, runpod.io
Pods (dedicated GPU instances that start in under 30 seconds), Serverless endpoints that scale from zero to thousands of workers, Clusters for multi-node runs, and public model endpoints.
Source: runpod.io, runpod.io
Billing by the second with no egress fees and no minimums, or discounted reservations. Instances run in 31 regions across the US, Europe, Asia and Australia.
Source: runpod.io
Runpod Inc. was founded in 2022. It raised a $20 million seed round co-led by Intel Capital and Dell Technologies Capital, then a $100 million round led by Summit Partners in June 2026 at a $1.0 billion valuation.
Source: runpod.io, businesswire.com
We found no Runpod entry in the Science Based Targets initiative dashboard (checked October 16, 2026).
Source: sciencebasedtargets.org
Runpod suits developers and startups that want self-serve GPUs billed by the second.
| Field | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | New Jersey, USA | PUBLIC SOURCE runpod.io |
| Founded | 2022 | PUBLIC SOURCE runpod.io |
| Ownership | Private (venture-backed) | PUBLIC SOURCE runpod.io |
| Employees | No data | NO DATA |
| Revenue (published) | No data | NO DATA |
| Operations and regions | No data | NO DATA |
| Customers and markets | No data | NO DATA |
| Facilities and capacity | No data | NO DATA |
| Technologies | No data | NO DATA |
| Certifications and standards | No data | NO DATA |
| Partners and named customers | No data | NO DATA |
Only what the company or an official register publishes. Targets and commitments are labelled as such. No data means we found no public figure, not that none exists.
| Field | Value | Source |
|---|---|---|
| PUE (published) | No data | NO DATA |
| WUE (published) | No data | NO DATA |
| Renewable energy share | No data | NO DATA |
| SBTi target status | Not found in SBTi export (checked 2026-10-16) | PUBLIC SOURCE sciencebasedtargets.org |
By the second, with no egress fees or minimums. (runpod.io)
31 regions worldwide. (runpod.io)
$1.0 billion after its June 2026 round. (runpod.io)
Accessed Oct 24, 2026.
