Vast.ai
A cloud GPU compute rental platform offering spot and on-demand instances across multiple GPU models, primarily targeting AI and machine learning developers and researchers.
Timeline (last 90 days)
In GPU Index's price data snapshot, the lowest price for H100 is $1.37/hr (Vast.ai, spot instance), for H200 is $2.62/hr (CoreWeave, spot), for A100 is $1.15/hr (Paperspace, three-year contract), for L40S is $0.79/hr (RunPod, community cloud), and for B200 is $4.26/hr (CoreWeave, spot).
RunPod and Vast.ai aggregate distributed computing power through a market-based competitive pricing model, offering price flexibility but relatively weaker stability.
In the professional GPU rental and hosting space, in addition to the three major cloud providers AWS, GCP, and Azure, there are emerging players such as CoreWeave, Lambda Labs, RunPod, and Vast.ai.
Lambda, CoreWeave, RunPod, and Vast.ai are emerging cloud platforms focused on AI compute.
Vast.ai uses an aggregation model that unifies compute from individual mining rigs and small data centers scattered around the world into a marketplace, where buyers can bid by the hour.
Computing matchmaking platforms such as Vast.ai and RunPod offer the lowest prices because what is being rented is essentially other people's idle machines.
Typical players in the offtake network space include GPU cloud platforms such as CoreWeave and Crusoe, as well as P2P compute markets such as Vast.ai and RunPod.
Vast.ai is a compute-sharing marketplace with lower prices but slightly inferior stability.
CrofAI claimed to run Kimi K3 on RTX Pro 6000 units rented from Vast, but even with Q2_K quantization the model requires approximately 802 GiB of VRAM, while the largest 8-GPU RTX PRO 6000 machine available on Vast has only 765 GiB of VRAM.
On Vast.ai bidding RTX 4090, each video clip took 93 seconds, with a steady-state cost of $0.013 per clip and a session cost of $0.17 per clip
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In GPU Index's price data snapshot, the lowest price for H100 is $1.37/hr (Vast.ai, spot instance), for H200 is $2.62/hr (CoreWeave, spot), for A100 is $1.15/hr (Paperspace, three-year contract), for L40S is $0.79/hr (RunPod, community cloud), and for B200 is $4.26/hr (CoreWeave, spot).
50%UnverifiedIn the professional GPU rental and hosting space, in addition to the three major cloud providers AWS, GCP, and Azure, there are emerging players such as CoreWeave, Lambda Labs, RunPod, and Vast.ai.
50%UnverifiedRunPod and Vast.ai aggregate distributed computing power through a market-based competitive pricing model, offering price flexibility but relatively weaker stability.
50%UnverifiedLambda, CoreWeave, RunPod, and Vast.ai are emerging cloud platforms focused on AI compute.
50%UnverifiedVast.ai uses an aggregation model that unifies compute from individual mining rigs and small data centers scattered around the world into a marketplace, where buyers can bid by the hour.
50%UnverifiedComputing matchmaking platforms such as Vast.ai and RunPod offer the lowest prices because what is being rented is essentially other people's idle machines.
50%UnverifiedTypical players in the offtake network space include GPU cloud platforms such as CoreWeave and Crusoe, as well as P2P compute markets such as Vast.ai and RunPod.
50%UnverifiedVast.ai is a compute-sharing marketplace with lower prices but slightly inferior stability.
50%UnverifiedCrofAI claimed to run Kimi K3 on RTX Pro 6000 units rented from Vast, but even with Q2_K quantization the model requires approximately 802 GiB of VRAM, while the largest 8-GPU RTX PRO 6000 machine available on Vast has only 765 GiB of VRAM.
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