The terms govern payment obligations for use of RunPod's GPU cloud services. Specific billing mechanisms, credit terms, and charge timing are addressed in the payment provisions, though the full clause text was not available in the provided source.
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Payment terms establish the financial obligations users accept when deploying GPU resources, including when charges are incurred and how billing is processed for on-demand, serverless, and cluster workloads.
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The updated Terms of Service remove previous promotional language including referral bonuses (previously described as $5-$500 random credit bonuses) and product feature descriptions. The revised document now explicitly states it is a legally binding agreement between you and RunPod, Inc., with a last-updated date of March 24, 2026. No new restrictions or obligations are introduced by this change; the restructuring primarily formalizes the legal framework and eliminates marketing content that previously appeared within the terms document.
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View full change record →Under these terms, users incur charges for GPU compute consumption across RunPod's service tiers. The specific billing triggers, credit application rules, and charge timing are governed by the payment provisions in the full document.
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Payment terms establish the financial obligations users accept when deploying GPU resources, including when charges are incurred and how billing is processed for on-demand, serverless, and cluster workloads.
Under these terms, users incur charges for GPU compute consumption across RunPod's service tiers. The specific billing triggers, credit application rules, and charge timing are governed by the payment provisions in the full document.
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