CloudGPU vs Vast.ai
As of , CloudGPU and Vast.ai share 7 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. On the priciest shared card, NVIDIA A100 80GB: CloudGPU $1.49 vs Vast.ai $1.01 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
On-demand, per GPU-hour
| GPU |  CloudGPU |  Vast.ai | Difference | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA A100 80GB median $1.99 · 63 providers · lowest CloudRift $1.05 | $1.49 captured Deploy ↗ | $1.01 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell median $2.23 · 41 providers · lowest Hostinger $0.65 from | $1.49 captured Deploy ↗ | $1.36 floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA A100 40GB median $1.98 · 22 providers · lowest CloudGPU $0.63 | $0.63 captured Deploy ↗ | $0.58 floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 median $0.81 · 20 providers · lowest HexGrid $0.55 | $0.59 captured Deploy ↗ | $0.47 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX A6000 median $0.59 · 21 providers · lowest Thunder Compute $0.35 | $0.44 captured Deploy ↗ | $0.40 floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 median $0.47 · 16 providers · lowest CloudGPU $0.33 | $0.33 captured Deploy ↗ | $0.41 Multi-GPU machines · floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
| NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 median $0.40 · 9 providers · lowest CloudGPU $0.21 | $0.21 captured Deploy ↗ | $0.17 floor captured Deploy ↗ | — | not the same market |
How this is compared
Cloud GPU rental prices of CloudGPU 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 A100 80GB: CloudGPU $1.49 vs Vast.ai $1.01 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell: CloudGPU $1.49 vs Vast.ai $1.36 (floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA A100 40GB: CloudGPU $0.63 vs Vast.ai $0.58 (floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX 5090: CloudGPU $0.59 vs Vast.ai $0.47 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX A6000: CloudGPU $0.44 vs Vast.ai $0.40 (floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA RTX 4090: CloudGPU $0.33 vs Vast.ai $0.41 (Multi-GPU machines · floor) per GPU-hour — not the same market, not counted.
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090: CloudGPU $0.21 vs Vast.ai $0.17 (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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