RunPod referral — random $5-$500 credit bonus
Sign up through a RunPod referral link, load $10, and you get a random bonus credit of $5-$500 (Europe: fixed $5).
- Deadline
- Rolling
- Access
- Invite / referral
Opens docs.runpod.io in a new tab. May be a referral link — we may earn a bonus, at no cost to you. How this works
Checked on the provider’s page
Who qualifies
First-time RunPod users who sign up with Google SSO after June 15, 2025
The catch
You must use a referral link, sign up with Google SSO, be a brand-new RunPod user and load at least $10. Europe-based accounts get a fixed $5. The bonus amount is random and most draws are small.
What you get
- Bonus is a weighted random $5-$500 for non-European accounts
- Referrer also gets 5% of Serverless and 3% of Pod spend for 6 months
- Bonus lands after your first $10 load
At a glance
- Value
- $500
- Offer
- $5-$500 random bonus
- Type
- Referral bonus
- Provider
- RunPod
- Access
- Invite / referral
- Eligibility
- First-time RunPod users who sign up with Google SSO after June 15, 2025
- Deadline
- Rolling / no deadline given
- Last checked
- Sun, 25 Oct 2026
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