Phala vs. RunPod Comparison


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About Phala is a hardware-secured cloud platform designed to help organizations deploy confidential AI with verifiable trust and enterprise-grade privacy. Using Trusted Execution Environments (TEEs), Phala ensures that AI models, data, and computations run inside fully isolated, encrypted environments that even cloud providers cannot access. The platform includes pre-configured confidential AI models, confidential VMs, and GPU TEE support for NVIDIA H100, H200, and B200 hardware, delivering near-native performance with complete privacy. With Phala Cloud, developers can build, containerize, and deploy encrypted AI applications in minutes while relying on automated attestations and strong compliance guarantees. Phala powers sensitive workloads across finance, healthcare, AI SaaS, decentralized AI, and other privacy-critical industries. Trusted by thousands of developers and enterprise customers, Phala enables businesses to build AI that users can trust.		About RunPod offers a cloud-based platform designed for running AI workloads, focusing on providing scalable, on-demand GPU resources to accelerate machine learning (ML) model training and inference. With its diverse selection of powerful GPUs like the NVIDIA A100, RTX 3090, and H100, RunPod supports a wide range of AI applications, from deep learning to data processing. The platform is designed to minimize startup time, providing near-instant access to GPU pods, and ensures scalability with autoscaling capabilities for real-time AI model deployment. RunPod also offers serverless functionality, job queuing, and real-time analytics, making it an ideal solution for businesses needing flexible, cost-effective GPU resources without the hassle of managing infrastructure.
Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook		Platforms Supported Windows Mac Linux Cloud On-Premises iPhone iPad Android Chromebook
Audience Phala is ideal for enterprises, developers, and AI teams needing secure, privacy-preserving, verifiable infrastructure for deploying sensitive or regulated AI workloads		Audience RunPod is designed for AI developers, data scientists, and organizations looking for a scalable, flexible, and cost-effective solution to run machine learning models, offering on-demand GPU resources with minimal setup time
Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online		Support Phone Support 24/7 Live Support Online
API Offers API		API Offers API
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Pricing $50.37/month Free Version Free Trial		Pricing $0.40 per hour Free Version Free Trial
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Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person		Training Documentation Webinars Live Online In Person
Company Information Phala Founded: 2019 United States phala.com		Company Information RunPod Founded: 2022 United States www.runpod.io
Alternatives Azure Confidential Computing Microsoft		Alternatives DigitalOcean
Google Cloud Confidential VMs Google		Amazon EC2 G4 Instances Amazon
NVIDIA Confidential Computing NVIDIA		Atlantic.Net
Together AI		Vertex AI Google
NVIDIA DGX Cloud NVIDIA View All		Intel Tiber AI Cloud Intel View All
Categories AI Cloud Providers AI Inference AI Infrastructure Cloud GPU Confidential AI		Categories AI Cloud Providers AI Development AI Fine-Tuning AI Inference AI Infrastructure AI/ML Model Training Auto Scaling Cloud GPU Function as a Service (FaaS) Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) LLM API Machine Learning ML Model Deployment Serverless

Integrations DeepSeek R1 Llama 3.1 Qwen2.5 Qwen3 Axolotl DeepSeek Coder Docker EXAONE Google Cloud Platform Hermes 3 IBM Granite Llama 2 Microsoft Azure Mistral 7B Mistral AI Phi-2 Phi-3 Phi-4 PyTorch SmolLM2 Show More Integrations View All 4 Integrations		Integrations DeepSeek R1 Llama 3.1 Qwen2.5 Qwen3 Axolotl DeepSeek Coder Docker EXAONE Google Cloud Platform Hermes 3 IBM Granite Llama 2 Microsoft Azure Mistral 7B Mistral AI Phi-2 Phi-3 Phi-4 PyTorch SmolLM2 Show More Integrations View All 29 Integrations
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