Listed in a US region, but it will not start

A provider does not have one pool of GPUs. It has a pool at each site. The card can be free in one US region and gone in the next. The price page shows one figure for both.

So a check of availability is a check of one GPU in one place on one day.

A large cloud can give a new account a quota of zero for big GPU machines, and it sets that quota for each region. A raise in one region does not carry to another. Each request takes time, and approval is not certain.

If you need a specific US region, ask for the quota there first.

Some providers sell the newest cards only after a sales call, an approval or a place on a waitlist. Some open one region to everyone and hold another for approved customers. The listing looks the same in both.

Every listing is marked Start now, No GPUs, Gated, Quota or Not checked, with the date. Only a live read of the provider’s stock earns Start now. A provider whose page says self-serve, with no stock to read, stays Not checked.

A label records the check that was made. If your region differs from the one checked, run the check again there.

Open the console. Choose the US region you need and the GPU you want. Try to start the smallest machine. Write down what happened, in the provider’s words, and the date.

If it fails, try the next US region before the next provider. The same account can often start the same card one region over.

For training and batch work, take the US region that starts. For inference a person waits on, measure the delay from the farther region before you give up the nearer one. On 12 Nov 2026, 10 providers listed a B200, from $3.50 to $14.24 per GPU-hour, and the table shows which could be started.

When Runcrate’s feed lists a machine of a GPU, the label is Start now and the price is the feed’s price. When it lists none, the label is Out right now, with the time it was last in stock. 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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