have you looked at vast.ai? The pricing for their 5090s are significantly lower than runpod.ai
But if you're just doing transcription of an audio podcast, why aren't you using assembly.ai? A 2-hour podcast probably would cost about $1 to transcribe in under a few minutes, and you wouldn't have to spin up any virtual machine -- it's just a simple API call that returns back a json payload.
Mike Kelley
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