GPU.ai vs Vast.ai
As of , GPU.ai and Vast.ai share 17 GPUs today, but on none do both list an on-demand rate: at least one side is community capacity or a marketplace floor, compared below and not counted. Not compared today: 2 more shared GPUs, where one side's quote is not confirmed within 48 hours or is a thin market. On the priciest shared card, NVIDIA B200: GPU.ai $7.99 (from) vs Vast.ai $10.63 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted. On other people's machines - community capacity and marketplace floors, a market of its own - Vast.ai lists the lower rate on 6 of the 10 shared GPUs. Compared apart ↓
On-demand, per GPU-hour
| GPU |  GPU.ai |  Vast.ai | Difference | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA B200 median $6.94 · 40 providers · lowest Hostinger $4.50 from | $7.99 from captured Deploy ↗ | $10.63 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA H200 median $4.56 · 56 providers · lowest Dataoorts $2.29 | $5.29 from captured Deploy ↗ | $4.94 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA H200 NVL median $3.62 · 7 providers · lowest GPU.ai $3.29 from | $3.29 from captured Deploy ↗ | $4.00 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA H100 PCIe median $2.82 · 10 providers · lowest GPU.ai $1.98 from | $1.98 from captured Deploy ↗ | $2.85 floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell median $2.20 · 42 providers · lowest Hostinger $0.65 from | $1.69 from captured Deploy ↗ | $1.34 floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB median $1.99 · 63 providers · lowest Yotta Labs $0.92 | $1.23 from captured Deploy ↗ | $1.00 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 median $0.79 · 23 providers · lowest OpenRelay $0.50 | $1.19 from captured Deploy ↗ | $0.47 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 median $0.48 · 17 providers · lowest OpenRelay $0.35 | $0.89 from captured Deploy ↗ | $0.37 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA L40S median $1.42 · 40 providers · lowest CloudRift $0.63 | $0.80 from captured Deploy ↗ | $0.73 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA L40 median $0.97 · 11 providers · lowest GPU.ai $0.78 from | $0.78 from captured Deploy ↗ | $0.51 floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada median $1.03 · 12 providers · lowest GPU.ai $0.65 from | $0.65 from captured Deploy ↗ | $0.59 floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA L4 median $0.80 · 23 providers · lowest Hikube $0.28 GPU only | $0.59 from captured Deploy ↗ | $0.67 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 median $0.42 · 10 providers · lowest OpenRelay $0.18 | $0.50 from captured Deploy ↗ | $0.16 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX A6000 median $0.59 · 21 providers · lowest Thunder Compute $0.35 | $0.40 from captured Deploy ↗ | $0.46 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada median $0.52 · 5 providers · lowest GPU.ai $0.28 from | $0.28 from captured Deploy ↗ | $0.22 floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX A5000 median $0.58 · 10 providers · lowest GPU.ai $0.27 from | $0.27 from captured Deploy ↗ | $0.23 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX A4000 median $0.25 · 11 providers · lowest Hyperstack $0.15 | $0.25 from captured Deploy ↗ | $0.09 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
Shared, not compared today
Both providers quoted these GPUs on-demand within the last 7 days, but at least one quote is not confirmed within 48 hours of the newest read (or is a marketplace floor withheld as too thin), and an unconfirmed price never decides which is cheaper. They return to the table above at the next read that confirms them.
- NVIDIA H100 NVL: Vast.ai: thin market
- NVIDIA H100 SXM: Vast.ai: thin market
Community capacity and marketplace floors, per GPU-hour
Capacity on other people's machines, compared on its own: a community rate is a fixed list price for a machine a third party hosts; a marketplace floor is the median of the five cheapest verified offers at the time of reading, and moves with supply. Either can be taken back sooner than an on-demand rate card, and neither enters the verdict above or any median.
| GPU | GPU.ai | Vast.ai | Lower |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA H200 | $3.59 community captured | $4.94 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | GPU.ai, by $1.35 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.19 community captured | $1.00 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | Vast.ai, by $0.19 |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 | $0.69 community captured | $0.47 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | Vast.ai, by $0.22 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | $0.34 community captured | $0.37 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | GPU.ai, by $0.03 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $0.79 community captured | $0.73 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | Vast.ai, by $0.06 |
| NVIDIA L40 | $0.69 community captured | $0.51 marketplace floor captured | Vast.ai, by $0.18 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | $0.22 community captured | $0.16 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | Vast.ai, by $0.06 |
| NVIDIA RTX A6000 | $0.33 community captured | $0.46 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | GPU.ai, by $0.13 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada | $0.20 community captured | $0.22 marketplace floor captured | GPU.ai, by $0.02 |
| NVIDIA RTX A4000 | $0.17 community captured | $0.09 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | Vast.ai, by $0.08 |
How this is compared
Cloud GPU rental prices of GPU.ai and Vast.ai, compared per GPU-hour on the GPUs both list. Where a provider has several tiers or regions, its cheapest on-demand rate is used and labelled. Community capacity (RunPod Community Cloud) and marketplace floors are shown only where a provider has nothing else, and never decide which is cheaper.
GPU by GPU
- NVIDIA B200: GPU.ai $7.99 (from) vs Vast.ai $10.63 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA H200: GPU.ai $5.29 (from) vs Vast.ai $4.94 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA H200 NVL: GPU.ai $3.29 (from) vs Vast.ai $4.00 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA H100 PCIe: GPU.ai $1.98 (from) vs Vast.ai $2.85 (floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell: GPU.ai $1.69 (from) vs Vast.ai $1.34 (floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA A100 80GB: GPU.ai $1.23 (from) vs Vast.ai $1.00 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX 5090: GPU.ai $1.19 (from) vs Vast.ai $0.47 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX 4090: GPU.ai $0.89 (from) vs Vast.ai $0.37 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA L40S: GPU.ai $0.80 (from) vs Vast.ai $0.73 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA L40: GPU.ai $0.78 (from) vs Vast.ai $0.51 (floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada: GPU.ai $0.65 (from) vs Vast.ai $0.59 (floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA L4: GPU.ai $0.59 (from) vs Vast.ai $0.67 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090: GPU.ai $0.50 (from) vs Vast.ai $0.16 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX A6000: GPU.ai $0.40 (from) vs Vast.ai $0.46 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada: GPU.ai $0.28 (from) vs Vast.ai $0.22 (floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX A5000: GPU.ai $0.27 (from) vs Vast.ai $0.23 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX A4000: GPU.ai $0.25 (from) vs Vast.ai $0.09 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
Not compared: GPUs only one of the two lists, reserved/committed tiers, and anything either provider prices only on request. See each provider's page for its full list.
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