Crusoe Cloud vs Spheron
GPU specialist against peer marketplace, 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.
Crusoe Cloud is cheaper on 2 of the 3 cards both of them rent, by a median of 7%. Spheron is cheaper on the other 1.
- 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
- Peer marketplace A stranger whose machine the platform vets to some degree. Reliability, bandwidth and how long the machine stays online vary by host, not just by price.
- GPU models
- 13 19 offers
- Registered in
- 🇸🇬 Singapore
These are not the same product. A GPU specialist and a peer marketplace differ in who your counterparty is, which is why the rates below can be far apart without either being wrong. The prices are comparable; what stands behind them is not.
The 3 cards both of them rent, cheapest published per-GPU on-demand rate each. Dearest first.
| GPU | Crusoe Cloud | Spheron | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141GB | $4.29/hr | $4.79/hr | 10% cheaper on Crusoe Cloud |
| AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB | $3.45/hr | $3.59/hr | 4% cheaper on Crusoe Cloud |
| NVIDIA L40S 48GB | $1.50/hr | $0.96/hr | 36% cheaper on Spheron |
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 | Spheron | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 minute |
| Minimum commitment | None on hourly instances | None on dedicated or spot |
| Payment model | Fees per the Admin Console or a separate agreement | Prepaid credits, USD; enterprise invoicing on request |
| Egress | Free | Network bandwidth included in the hourly rate |
| Uptime SLA | 99.5% per GPU VM, monthly | 99.9% |
| Regions | not stated | North America, Europe, Asia Pacific |
Neither site tells you 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
- NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB$3.90/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB$0.68/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 4090 24GB$0.72/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB$0.78/hr
- NVIDIA A100 80GB$1.43/hr
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB$2.30/hr
- NVIDIA GH200 96GB$3.02/hr
- NVIDIA B200 SXM6 180GB$8.63/hr
- NVIDIA B300 SXM6 288GB$10.68/hr
Is Crusoe Cloud cheaper than Spheron?
Crusoe Cloud is cheaper on 2 of the 3 cards both of them rent, by a median of 7%. Spheron is cheaper on the other 1.
Which GPUs do Crusoe Cloud and Spheron both rent?
NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141GB, AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB, NVIDIA L40S 48GB — 3 in total, on published per-GPU on-demand rates.
What is the cheapest GPU at Crusoe Cloud and at Spheron?
Of the cards both rent, Crusoe Cloud starts at $1.50 per GPU-hour and Spheron at $0.96.
Are Crusoe Cloud and Spheron the same kind of provider?
No. Crusoe Cloud is a GPU specialist — an operator whose whole business is renting these cards. Spheron is a peer marketplace — a stranger whose machine the platform vets to some degree. Reliability, bandwidth and how long the machine stays online vary by host, not just by price. The rates are comparable; what stands behind them is not.