Vast.ai alternative: the same GPU, priced by the month

A bidding marketplace where independent hosts and data centers set their own rates, with on-demand, interruptible and 1–6 month reserved options. Below: their published rates read on 15 October 2026, what they add up to over a full month, and the cases where Vast.ai is simply the better choice.

Vast.ai, one month of H100$1,606at $2.20/h × 730 h
GPU Cloud HQ, same GPU dedicated$1,249flat, fixed for your term
Difference−22%$357 a month

Price, GPU by GPU

Every model Vast.ai publishes that we also rent. Their rate is the standard on-demand tier — spot and preemptible tiers are cheaper and noted where they exist.

GPU	Vast.ai published rate	One month, 24/7	Our monthly	Difference
NVIDIA B300288 GB HBM3e	median $7.94/h (14 Oct)	$5,796	$3,790	−35%
NVIDIA B200180 GB HBM3e	median $6.70/h (14 Oct)	$4,891	$2,690	−45%
NVIDIA H200141 GB HBM3e	median $3.80/h (14 Oct) · offers from $2.80	$2,774	$1,690	−39%
NVIDIA H100 SXM80 GB HBM3	median $2.20/h (14 Oct) · offers from $1.73	$1,606	$1,249	−22%
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell96 GB GDDR7 ECC	median $1.43/h, Server Edition (15 Oct) · from $1.27	$1,044	$749	−28%
NVIDIA A10080 GB HBM2e	median $0.51/h, SXM4 (14 Oct) · offers from $0.40	$372	$649	+74%
NVIDIA L40S48 GB GDDR6	median $0.64/h (15 Oct) · offers from $0.47	$467	$429	−8%
NVIDIA RTX 509032 GB GDDR7	median $0.74/h (15 Oct) · offers from $0.37	$540	$279	−48%
NVIDIA RTX 409024 GB GDDR6X	median $0.42/h (14 Oct) · offers from $0.35	$307	$189	−38%
NVIDIA L424 GB GDDR6	median $0.20/h (15 Oct), 7 offers	$146	$169	+16%

Vast.ai does not publish fixed rates: prices move with supply, hour by hour. Figures are the median offer per GPU-hour from Vast.ai's public GPU pricing data — the daily median for 14 October 2026 where Vast publishes one, otherwise the median at 13:30 UTC on 15 October — with the cheapest offer seen on 15 October. Source: Vast.ai.

Our price includes the dedicated CPU, RAM and NVMe listed on the pricing table, 20 TB of outbound transfer and a 99.9% SLA. Read on 15 October 2026 from vast.ai.

An honest read

Both of these lists are real. Pick the column that describes your workload.

Where Vast.ai wins

The cheapest GPU-hours on the open market, by a wide margin, if you chase spot.
Huge choice of hardware, including consumer cards nobody else rents.
Per-second billing with no contract at all.

Choose Vast.ai if price is the only variable that matters, your job checkpoints well, and an interruption costs you nothing but time.

Where we win

One flat monthly invoice. No meter, no egress fee, no storage line item — the number is fixed for your whole term.
Single-tenant bare metal. The whole machine, with its CPU, RAM and NVMe, not a container beside someone else's job.
No KYC, paid in crypto. An email address, a prepaid balance in BTC, ETH or USDT, and renewals settle themselves.
Live in under 10 minutes, with a 99.9% SLA, 4-hour hardware replacement and engineers on call 24/7.

Choose us if the GPUs stay busy, you want the bill to be predictable, and you would rather not hand over an identity document to rent a computer.

The fine print, side by side

What to check	Vast.ai	GPU Cloud HQ
How you are billed	Per second, from credits bought in advance	Flat monthly price, prepaid balance, invoices settle themselves
Commitment	None; reserved 1, 3 or 6 months for up to 50% off — cancelling early forfeits the discount plus a 5% fee	Rolling month, or 3/6/12 months for 5–15% off
Signing up & identity	Self-serve	Self-serve, email address only — no KYC
How you pay	Card through Stripe; crypto through BitPay or Crypto.com	Bitcoin, Ether, USDT (ERC-20 / TRC-20) — no KYC, no card
What you actually get	Docker instances (VMs on some hosts): hobbyist rigs alongside vetted data-center hosts	Single-tenant bare metal, root access
Uptime commitment	Host-by-host ratings; interruptible instances can be reclaimed when outbid	99.9% uptime SLA with service credits
Storage	Set by each host, billed per GB-hour even while stopped; bandwidth billed per TB	Local NVMe included; block volumes at $25/TB/mo

Questions people actually ask

Is GPU Cloud HQ cheaper than Vast.ai?

For a machine that stays busy, yes: Vast.ai publishes median $2.20/h (14 Oct) · offers from $1.73, which is $1,606 for a 730-hour month, against $1,249 flat here for a dedicated H100 — about 22% less. Below roughly 568 hours of use a month, their hourly rate works out cheaper.

What do I lose by leaving Vast.ai?

Price is the only variable that matters, your job checkpoints well, and an interruption costs you nothing but time. If that is you, stay with them — we would rather say so than sell you the wrong thing.

Do I need an account or an identity check to compare?

No. Every price on this page is public on both sides. When you do order here, an email address is all we ask for: no ID document, no company registration, no card — the balance is funded in Bitcoin, Ether or USDT.

How current are these figures?

They were read on 15 October 2026 from Vast.ai's own pricing page (https://vast.ai/pricing). Providers change prices without notice — the link is there so you can check today's figure yourself.

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