
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 2 of the 3 cards both of them rent, by a median of 28%. Nebius AI Cloud is cheaper on the other 1.
The 3 cards both of them rent, cheapest published per-GPU on-demand rate each. Dearest first.
| GPU | GPU.ai | Nebius AI Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141GB | $3.59/hr | $5.40/hr | 34% cheaper on GPU.ai |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $3.49/hr | $4.50/hr | 22% cheaper on GPU.ai |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB | $1.99/hr | $1.80/hr | 10% cheaper on Nebius AI Cloud |
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.
| GPU.ai | Nebius AI Cloud | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Per second | Per GPU-hour |
| Minimum commitment | $5 minimum deposit, no term | $25 first payment; no term |
| Payment model | Prepaid credit balance with burn rate and runway | Bank card or bank transfer; PDF invoices by email |
| Free credits | not stated | Promo codes grant free credits |
| Egress | not stated | Free |
| Uptime SLA | not stated | 99.50% for Compute; compensation 10–30% of fees |
| Regions | 8 regions: US East/Central/West, Canada, EU West, EU East, India South, Asia-Pacific | 6 public regions: Finland, France, Israel, Kansas City (US), UK ×2 |
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.
GPU.ai is cheaper on 2 of the 3 cards both of them rent, by a median of 28%. Nebius AI Cloud is cheaper on the other 1.
NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141GB, NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB — 3 in total, on published per-GPU on-demand rates.
Of the cards both rent, GPU.ai starts at $1.99 per GPU-hour and Nebius AI Cloud at $1.80.