RunPod Referral Bonus Credits

Overview

RunPod is a GPU cloud offering on-demand Pods, Serverless endpoints and multi-node Clusters billed per second. Through its referral program, both the referrer and the person referred receive bonus credits once the referred user signs up and loads $10 onto their account.

Bonus Amounts

• Non-European customers receive a random weighted bonus between $5 and $500.
• European customers receive a fixed $5 bonus.
• In cross-region referrals the non-European party receives the random bonus and the European party receives $5.
• Referrers additionally earn 3% commission on the referred user's Pod spend and 5% on Serverless spend for the first six months.

Platform Pricing Context

Representative Community Cloud rates: RTX 4090 from about $0.34/hour, L4 about $0.24/hour, A100 80GB about $1.79/hour and H100 80GB from about $1.99/hour. Serverless Flex workers scale to zero and are billed only while processing. RunPod charges no ingress or egress fees.

Eligibility & Notes

• The bonus is awarded only after the referred user has loaded $10; that $10 remains usable balance rather than a fee.
• Bonus credits cannot be withdrawn as cash and can only be spent on RunPod services.
• The separate Startup Program offers $1,000 in credits as an application-based alternative.

How to Get Started

1. Sign up at runpod.io using a referral link from an existing user.
2. Load at least $10 onto the account.
3. The bonus credit is applied automatically to both accounts.

Details are documented in the RunPod referrals documentation.