How to check a US GPU cloud in fifteen minutes

Open the console or the pricing page. Filter by the GPU you need. Write down every US region that lists it, in the provider’s own words. If the page gives only a country, write that and a question mark.

Pick the region nearest your users or your data. Try to start the smallest machine of that GPU. You will meet one of four answers: it starts, there are none free, you must talk to sales, or your account needs a quota raise.

If it starts, time the boot until you can log in. If it does not, try one more US region and record both results.

Stop the machine and read the charge. Divide by the hourly rate. You now know the unit, any minimum for each start and whether booting was billed.

Note the smallest rental as well: one GPU, or a machine of eight.

Search the terms and the data processing documents for location, region and transfer. Copy the sentence that says where customer data is stored and processed. If there is none, write none found.

Copy the sentence on deletion too: what happens to a disk when the machine stops.

Use one line: provider, GPU, US place, smallest rental, unit, hourly total, what happened at start, the location sentence and the date. Without the date the line is worth little in a week.

Do the same for each option. On 12 Nov 2026, 15 providers listed an H200, from $3.49 to $10.60 per GPU-hour. The tables here are the price half of that record.

A US GPU cloud passes when you can say in one line where the machine ran, that it started, what it cost for the minutes used and what the provider commits to about location. Anything less is a region name on a page.

Runcrate’s feed gives the place, the price and the status of each GPU, and one command adds it to Claude Code, Codex and Cursor, so an agent can run this check for you. Runcrate’s feed lists GPUs in the United States in Ashburn, Jackson, West Palm Beach, New York, Dulles, Culpeper, Newark, Houston, Phoenix, Austin, Des Moines, Las Vegas, Seattle, Los Angeles, San Jose, Texas and US Midwest.

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