Why Forgotten Runpod Workloads Keep Billing

Standard cloud GPU accounts cannot drop into negative debt, but walking away from a running workload still brings costly surprises. This episode breaks down how Runpod handles zero balances, why stopped pods double their volume storage billing rates, and why deprecated CLI flags like stop-after failed to enforce deadlines. Learn how process exits differ from platform terminations and why auto-refill subverts prepaid protections during unattended ComfyUI runs. Key sources: • Runpod billing overview: $0 auto-stop, low balance alerts, auto-pay, $80/hr spend limit, 1-hour minimum. — https://docs.runpod.io/accounts-billing/billing • per-second billing, storage rates, account limits. — https://docs.runpod.io/pods/pricing • stop vs terminate semantics, stopped-pod storage charges. — https://docs.runpod.io/pods/manage-pods Episode 6314 — myweirdprompts.com/n/6314 (permanent short link: myweirdprompts.com/226841)