Crusoe Cloud vs GPU.ai
Two GPU specialist providers, priced against each other on the 3 GPUs both of them rent. Published per-GPU on-demand rates as each provider last stated them, with what their own pages say about billing, commitment and egress beside the numbers.
GPU.ai is cheaper on 3 of the 3 cards both of them rent, by a median of 16%.
- How they sell
- GPU specialist An operator whose whole business is renting these cards.
- GPU models
- 9 18 offers
- Registered in
- 🇺🇸 United States
- How they sell
- GPU specialist An operator whose whole business is renting these cards.
- GPU models
- 15 17 offers
- Registered in
- 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
The 3 cards both of them rent, cheapest published per-GPU on-demand rate each. Dearest first.
| GPU | Crusoe Cloud | GPU.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141GB | $4.29/hr | $3.59/hr | 16% cheaper on GPU.ai |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $3.90/hr | $3.49/hr | 11% cheaper on GPU.ai |
| NVIDIA L40S 48GB | $1.50/hr | $0.80/hr | 47% cheaper on GPU.ai |
Per GPU per hour, on-demand list prices as each provider last published them. Rates exclude tax and vary by region; a cheaper rate is not the same machine, the same network or the same support.
| Crusoe Cloud | GPU.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing granularityOn short jobs this outweighs the rate: an hour minimum on a 90-second run costs more than a 30% dearer per-second rate. | Hourly for instances; per cluster-hour for Kubernetes | Per second |
| Minimum commitment | None on hourly instances | $5 minimum deposit, no term |
| Payment model | Fees per the Admin Console or a separate agreement | Prepaid credit balance with burn rate and runway |
| Egress | Free | not stated |
| Uptime SLA | 99.5% per GPU VM, monthly | not stated |
| Regions | not stated | 8 regions: US East/Central/West, Canada, EU West, EU East, India South, Asia-Pacific |
Neither site tells you whether your data trains their models, whether a commitment auto-renews, how long you have to dispute a bill or how much warning you get before maintenance. We looked on both and record the absence rather than filling it in — if you need any of it, ask before you commit.
- NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB$2.00/hr
- NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB$2.30/hr
- AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB$3.45/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada 16GB$0.24/hr
- NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB$0.40/hr
- NVIDIA L4 24GB$0.44/hr
- NVIDIA A40 48GB$0.49/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB$0.65/hr
- NVIDIA L40 48GB$0.78/hr
- NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40GB$0.89/hr
- NVIDIA A100 80GB$1.07/hr
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB$1.99/hr
- NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB$2.48/hr
- NVIDIA H100 NVL 94GB$3.19/hr
- NVIDIA H200 NVL 141GB$3.29/hr
Is Crusoe Cloud cheaper than GPU.ai?
GPU.ai is cheaper on 3 of the 3 cards both of them rent, by a median of 16%.
Which GPUs do Crusoe Cloud and GPU.ai both rent?
NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141GB, NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB, NVIDIA L40S 48GB — 3 in total, on published per-GPU on-demand rates.
What is the cheapest GPU at Crusoe Cloud and at GPU.ai?
Of the cards both rent, Crusoe Cloud starts at $1.50 per GPU-hour and GPU.ai at $0.80.