RunPod vs Vast.ai
As of , RunPod and Vast.ai share 28 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: 4 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: RunPod $7.99 (Secure Cloud) 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 18 of the 27 shared GPUs. Compared apart ↓
On-demand, per GPU-hour
| GPU |  RunPod |  Vast.ai | Difference | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA B200 median $6.94 · 40 providers · lowest Hostinger $4.50 from | $7.99 Secure Cloud 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 Secure Cloud 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 | $3.79 Secure Cloud 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 | $2.89 Secure Cloud 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 | $2.49 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $1.34 floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB median $1.99 · 63 providers · lowest Yotta Labs $0.92 | $1.79 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $1.00 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q median $1.86 · 2 providers · lowest EmpirioLabs $1.80 | $1.64 Community Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $1.55 floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 median $0.79 · 23 providers · lowest OpenRelay $0.50 | $1.19 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.47 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA L40S median $1.42 · 40 providers · lowest CloudRift $0.63 | $1.09 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.73 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA A100 40GB median $1.99 · 22 providers · lowest Trooper.AI $0.69 from | $1.00 Community Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.44 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada median $1.03 · 12 providers · lowest GPU.ai $0.65 from | $0.99 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.59 floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell median $1.21 · 4 providers · lowest Meshive $0.80 | $0.96 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.62 floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 median $0.48 · 17 providers · lowest OpenRelay $0.35 | $0.89 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.37 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation | $0.83 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.48 floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA L40 median $0.97 · 11 providers · lowest GPU.ai $0.78 from | $0.82 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.51 floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 median $0.48 · 2 providers · lowest SwissGPU $0.37 | $0.59 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.22 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA L4 median $0.80 · 23 providers · lowest Hikube $0.28 GPU only | $0.59 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.67 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX A6000 median $0.59 · 21 providers · lowest Thunder Compute $0.35 | $0.59 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.46 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 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.16 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti | $0.46 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.36 floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER | $0.28 Community Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.27 floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada median $0.52 · 5 providers · lowest GPU.ai $0.28 from | $0.28 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.22 floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 | $0.27 Community Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.21 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX A5000 median $0.58 · 10 providers · lowest GPU.ai $0.27 from | $0.27 Secure Cloud 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 Secure Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.09 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti | $0.18 Community Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.12 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 median $0.35 · 2 providers · lowest SynpixCloud $0.23 | $0.17 Community Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.12 floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | $0.13 Community Cloud captured Deploy ↗ | $0.08 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
- NVIDIA RTX A2000: Vast.ai: thin market
- NVIDIA V100: 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 | RunPod | Vast.ai | Lower |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA B200 | $5.98 community · Community Cloud captured | $10.63 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | RunPod, by $4.65 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $3.59 community · Community Cloud captured | $4.94 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | RunPod, by $1.35 |
| NVIDIA H100 PCIe | $1.99 community · Community Cloud captured | $2.85 marketplace floor captured | RunPod, by $0.86 |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | $1.69 community · Community Cloud captured | $1.34 marketplace floor captured | Vast.ai, by $0.35 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.19 community · Community Cloud captured | $1.00 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | Vast.ai, by $0.19 |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q | $1.64 community · Community Cloud captured | $1.55 marketplace floor captured | Vast.ai, by $0.09 |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 | $0.69 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.47 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | Vast.ai, by $0.22 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $0.79 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.73 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | Vast.ai, by $0.06 |
| NVIDIA A100 40GB | $1.00 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.44 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | Vast.ai, by $0.56 |
| NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada | $0.74 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.59 marketplace floor captured | Vast.ai, by $0.15 |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell | $0.82 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.62 marketplace floor captured | Vast.ai, by $0.20 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | $0.34 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.37 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | RunPod, by $0.03 |
| NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation | $0.49 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.48 marketplace floor captured | Vast.ai, by $0.01 |
| NVIDIA L40 | $0.69 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.51 marketplace floor captured | Vast.ai, by $0.18 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 | $0.39 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.22 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | Vast.ai, by $0.17 |
| NVIDIA L4 | $0.44 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.67 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | RunPod, by $0.23 |
| NVIDIA RTX A6000 | $0.33 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.46 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | RunPod, by $0.13 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 | $0.22 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.16 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | Vast.ai, by $0.06 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti | $0.27 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.36 marketplace floor captured | RunPod, by $0.09 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER | $0.28 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.27 marketplace floor captured | Vast.ai, by $0.01 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada | $0.20 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.22 marketplace floor captured | RunPod, by $0.02 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 | $0.27 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.21 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | Vast.ai, by $0.06 |
| NVIDIA RTX A5000 | $0.16 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.23 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | RunPod, by $0.07 |
| NVIDIA RTX A4000 | $0.17 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.09 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | Vast.ai, by $0.08 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti | $0.18 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.12 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | Vast.ai, by $0.06 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 | $0.17 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.12 marketplace floor captured | Vast.ai, by $0.05 |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 | $0.13 community · Community Cloud captured | $0.08 marketplace floor · Multi-GPU machines captured | Vast.ai, by $0.05 |
How this is compared
Cloud GPU rental prices of RunPod 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: RunPod $7.99 (Secure Cloud) vs Vast.ai $10.63 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA H200: RunPod $5.29 (Secure Cloud) vs Vast.ai $4.94 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA H200 NVL: RunPod $3.79 (Secure Cloud) vs Vast.ai $4.00 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA H100 PCIe: RunPod $2.89 (Secure Cloud) vs Vast.ai $2.85 (floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell: RunPod $2.49 (Secure Cloud) vs Vast.ai $1.34 (floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA A100 80GB: RunPod $1.79 (Secure Cloud) vs Vast.ai $1.00 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q: RunPod $1.64 (Community Cloud) vs Vast.ai $1.55 (floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX 5090: RunPod $1.19 (Secure Cloud) vs Vast.ai $0.47 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA L40S: RunPod $1.09 (Secure Cloud) vs Vast.ai $0.73 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA A100 40GB: RunPod $1.00 (Community Cloud) vs Vast.ai $0.44 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada: RunPod $0.99 (Secure Cloud) vs Vast.ai $0.59 (floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell: RunPod $0.96 (Secure Cloud) vs Vast.ai $0.62 (floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX 4090: RunPod $0.89 (Secure Cloud) vs Vast.ai $0.37 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada Generation: RunPod $0.83 (Secure Cloud) vs Vast.ai $0.48 (floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA L40: RunPod $0.82 (Secure Cloud) vs Vast.ai $0.51 (floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080: RunPod $0.59 (Secure Cloud) vs Vast.ai $0.22 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA L4: RunPod $0.59 (Secure Cloud) vs Vast.ai $0.67 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX A6000: RunPod $0.59 (Secure Cloud) vs Vast.ai $0.46 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090: RunPod $0.50 (Secure Cloud) vs Vast.ai $0.16 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Ti: RunPod $0.46 (Secure Cloud) vs Vast.ai $0.36 (floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080 SUPER: RunPod $0.28 (Community Cloud) vs Vast.ai $0.27 (floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada: RunPod $0.28 (Secure Cloud) vs Vast.ai $0.22 (floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 4080: RunPod $0.27 (Community Cloud) vs Vast.ai $0.21 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX A5000: RunPod $0.27 (Secure Cloud) vs Vast.ai $0.23 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX A4000: RunPod $0.25 (Secure Cloud) vs Vast.ai $0.09 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080 Ti: RunPod $0.18 (Community Cloud) vs Vast.ai $0.12 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3080: RunPod $0.17 (Community Cloud) vs Vast.ai $0.12 (floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070: RunPod $0.13 (Community Cloud) vs Vast.ai $0.08 (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.
Data updated: