About RunKey
We rent GPU compute by the second, and we try very hard to be boring about it.
What we do
RunKey rents dedicated GPUs — RTX A4000, 3090, 4090 and 5090 — and meters them by the second. A whole card, not a slice of one. You choose the model, choose the node it runs on, and get root over Direct SSH a minute or so later. When you are finished you terminate the instance and stop paying.
A desktop on every instance
Not everything is best done in a terminal. Every instance also installs a panel that opens as a desktop in a browser tab — a shell, a file manager, port forwarding, a task manager, resource graphs and a torrent client for pulling datasets down at the node's bandwidth. It publishes no port and needs no password: the console signs you into your own instance with one click. Full details are in the documentation.
Why fixed rates
Most GPU marketplaces float their prices with supply. That is efficient and completely useless when you are trying to decide whether a job is worth running. We hold a fixed credit rate per GPU model and absorb the variation on our side. You pick a node on the things that affect your work — cores, memory, disk, bandwidth, region — instead of playing a spot market.
Why per-second billing
Hourly rounding punishes exactly the workflow that GPUs are best at: try something, look at it, try something else. An instance you run for eleven minutes should cost eleven minutes. Ours does.
Why Direct SSH
A relayed shell is fine until you move a 12 GB checkpoint through it. We only list hosts that publish real ports, so your connection goes straight to your instance and your transfers run at the node's full speed.
Where the capacity comes from
RunKey sources capacity from established GPU marketplaces and presents it as a single catalogue with one price, one console and one bill. Every node we list has cleared a reliability, bandwidth and open-port bar before it reaches the picker. We are working toward our own hardware; until then this is how we keep the catalogue deep and the prices steady.
Get in touch
Questions, problems, or a workload you are not sure fits — the contact pagereaches a person.