Alternatives
GPU clouds, compared on the prices they publish
Twelve providers, their own published rates, turned into the only number that matters for a machine you keep busy: what it costs for a month. No affiliate links, no cherry-picking — every figure below is dated and linked to its source.
The short version
An hourly GPU is priced for a machine you switch off. Ours is priced for a machine you keep. Below 730 hours a month, most of these providers beat us — above it, the gap opens fast. Here is the same H100 SXM, everywhere, for one month.
| Provider | Published rate, H100 SXM | One month, 24/7 | vs our $1,249/mo |
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 GPU Cloud HQDedicated, billed monthly
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$1,249 per month, flat | $1,249 | Our reference |
CoreWeaveEnterprise AI cloud
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$49.24/h per 8-GPU HGX H100 node — $6.16 per GPU-hour | $4,493 | −72% |
DigitalOcean (Paperspace)General cloud with GPU Droplets
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$4.41/GPU/h on demand · $3.26 with a 12-month commitment | $3,219 | −61% |
LambdaOn-demand cloud from a GPU builder
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$3.99–$4.29/h depending on instance size | $2,913 | −57% |
Together AIInference platform with GPU clusters
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$3.99/h on demand · $3.69 reserved 7–30 days · $1.99 preemptible | $2,913 | −57% |
NebiusFull-stack AI cloud
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$3.85/h on demand · $2.15 preemptible | $2,811 | −56% |
RunPodOn-demand pods, two trust tiers
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$3.49/h Secure Cloud · $2.69 Community | $2,548 | −51% |
Verda (DataCrunch)European GPU cloud
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$3.35/h on demand · $1.67 spot | $2,446 | −49% |
HyperstackEuropean GPU cloud
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$3.20/h SXM on demand · from $2.72 reserved | $2,336 | −47% |
TensorDockMarketplace of independent hosts
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from $2.25/h (SXM5) | $1,643 | −24% |
Voltage ParkH100 fleet at scale
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from $1.99/h for a single H100, no contract | $1,453 | −14% |
Vast.aiOpen GPU marketplace
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$0.51–$1.74/h depending on host (spot → on-demand) | $1,270 | −2% |
Cudo ComputeDistributed cloud, quote-based
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Quote on request | — | Not published |
Rate shown is each provider's standard on-demand tier for the GPU in the row (not spot, not preemptible, not community hardware), read on their own pricing page on 19 September 2026. Monthly equivalent assumes the machine stays up for 730 hours. Where a provider is cheaper than us, the row says so.
Every provider, audited
What each one is good at, where it hurts, and who should pick it instead of us.
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CoreWeavecoreweave.com
−72%
Large-scale, Kubernetes-native infrastructure sold by whole HGX nodes, aimed at funded AI companies with a procurement process.
$4,493 a month for one H100 at their published rateCompare
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DigitalOcean (Paperspace)digitalocean.com
−61%
Paperspace folded into DigitalOcean: GPU Droplets next to the databases, load balancers and object storage of a general-purpose cloud.
$3,219 a month for one H100 at their published rateCompare
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Lambdalambda.ai
−57%
The cloud arm of a company that has built GPU workstations and servers for a decade, with 1–8 GPU instances and a familiar ML image.
$2,913 a month for one H100 at their published rateCompare
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Together AItogether.ai
−57%
Best known for serverless model APIs, with dedicated GPU clusters sold alongside them by the hour or by reservation.
$2,913 a month for one H100 at their published rateCompare
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Nebiusnebius.com
−56%
A large European AI cloud with its own data centers, published on-demand and preemptible rates, and multi-month cluster reservations.
$2,811 a month for one H100 at their published rateCompare
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RunPodrunpod.io
−51%
Per-second pods on a Secure Cloud of vetted data centers and a cheaper Community Cloud of third-party hosts.
$2,548 a month for one H100 at their published rateCompare
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Verda (DataCrunch)verda.com
−49%
The provider formerly known as DataCrunch — Finnish data centers, published spot and on-demand rates, and multi-year reservations.
$2,446 a month for one H100 at their published rateCompare
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Hyperstackhyperstack.cloud
−47%
NexGen Cloud's self-serve platform, billed by the minute, with published discounts for reserved capacity.
$2,336 a month for one H100 at their published rateCompare
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TensorDocktensordock.com
−24%
A broker between people with idle GPUs and people who need them, with KVM virtual machines, root access and a prepaid balance.
$1,643 a month for one H100 at their published rateCompare
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Voltage Parkvoltagepark.com
−14%
A large H100 estate rented by the hour on Ethernet, by the node on InfiniBand, or by the hundreds on long-term contracts.
$1,453 a month for one H100 at their published rateCompare
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Vast.aivast.ai
−2%
A bidding marketplace where independent hosts and data centers set their own rates, with on-demand, interruptible and 1–6 month reserved options.
$1,270 a month for one H100 at their published rateCompare
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Cudo Computecudocompute.com
An NVIDIA Cloud Partner aggregating capacity across partner data centers, whose current pricing page lists the top GPUs as quote on request.
No public price listCompare
How we compare — and when to ignore us
Every comparison on this site follows three rules, because a comparison you cannot check is an advertisement.
- Their number, not oursWe quote the rate printed on the provider's own pricing page, link to it, and date the reading. Nothing is estimated. When a provider publishes no price, the table says « quote on request » rather than guessing.
- The same workloadA monthly rental is one machine, always on. So the hourly rate is multiplied by 730 hours — the industry convention for a full month — and compared with our flat monthly price for the same GPU.
- The honest caveatIf your GPUs run a few hours a week, per-second billing wins and you should use it. Spot and interruptible tiers are cheaper still. We are the better deal when the machine stays busy — and we say so instead of hiding it.
Run the numbers on your own workload
Pick a GPU, a term and a region — the price you see is the price you pay, every month.