Crusoe Cloud vs Vast.ai
GPU specialist against peer marketplace, priced against each other on the 4 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.
Vast.ai is cheaper on 4 of the 4 cards both of them rent, by a median of 58%.
- 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
- 21 58 offers
- Registered in
- 🇺🇸 United States
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 4 cards both of them rent, cheapest published per-GPU on-demand rate each. Dearest first.
| GPU | Crusoe Cloud | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141GB | $4.29/hr | $4.08/hr | 5% cheaper on Vast.ai |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $3.90/hr | $1.87/hr | 52% cheaper on Vast.ai |
| NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB | $2.30/hr | $0.67/hr | 71% cheaper on Vast.ai |
| NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB | $2.00/hr | $0.74/hr | 63% cheaper on Vast.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 | Vast.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 to start |
| Payment model | Fees per the Admin Console or a separate agreement | Prepaid credits; optional auto top-up |
| Egress | Free | Priced per byte by each host |
| Uptime SLA | 99.5% per GPU VM, monthly | not stated |
| Regions | not stated | 40+ data centres worldwide |
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 L40S 48GB$1.50/hr
- AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB$3.45/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 3090 24GB$0.12/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 4070 12GB$0.14/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB$0.21/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 5080 16GB$0.27/hr
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell 24GB$0.27/hr
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell 32GB$0.35/hr
- NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB$0.40/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 4090 24GB$0.43/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB$0.47/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB$0.54/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 4080 Super 16GB$0.64/hr
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48GB$0.79/hr
Is Crusoe Cloud cheaper than Vast.ai?
Vast.ai is cheaper on 4 of the 4 cards both of them rent, by a median of 58%.
Which GPUs do Crusoe Cloud and Vast.ai both rent?
NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141GB, NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB, NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB, NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB — 4 in total, on published per-GPU on-demand rates.
What is the cheapest GPU at Crusoe Cloud and at Vast.ai?
Of the cards both rent, Crusoe Cloud starts at $2.00 per GPU-hour and Vast.ai at $0.67.
Are Crusoe Cloud and Vast.ai the same kind of provider?
No. Crusoe Cloud is a GPU specialist — an operator whose whole business is renting these cards. Vast.ai 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.