Crusoe Cloud review

Facts from Crusoe Cloud’s own pricing and docs pages, September 2026 — 48 read from a quoted sentence on the page we archived.

Summary

Crusoe Cloud rents GPUs from $1.50 per GPU-hour on demand, bills hourly for instances, and asks no minimum commitment. Egress is free.

ISO 27001HIPAAGDPR · DPA99.5% uptime SLAFree egress

From

$1.50/GPU-hr

Billing

Hourly for instances; per cluster-hour for Kubernetes

Minimum commitment

None on hourly instances

Egress

Free

Uptime SLA

99.5% per GPU VM

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On-demand pricing

NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB

×1, on demand · NVIDIA H100 80GB HGX

$3.90/hr

Deploy

NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141GB

×1, on demand · NVIDIA H200 141GB HGX

$4.29/hr

Deploy

NVIDIA L40S 48GBLowest

×1, on demand

$1.50/hr

Deploy

NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB

×1, on demand · NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM

$2.30/hr

Deploy

AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB

×1, on demand · AMD MI300X 192GB

$3.45/hr

Deploy

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What’s good

Lowest published on-demand rate is $1.50/GPU-hr (NVIDIA L40S 48GB), with no minimum commitment

Egress is free — no per-GB charge on data leaving

Publishes a 99.5% per GPU VM uptime commitment, with service credits when it is missed

Commitment discounts: committed instances at the lowest rates

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Plans

	On-demand GPU instances	Spot	Committed instances
From	$1.50/GPU-hr (L40S) Crusoe Cloud · On-demand GPU instances Every on-demand rate we hold for Crusoe Cloud, per GPU per hour, cheapest first. NVIDIA L40S 48GB ×1, on-demand $1.50/hr Deploy NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB ×1, on-demand · NVIDIA A100 80GB PCIe $2.00/hr Deploy NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB ×1, on-demand · NVIDIA A100 80GB SXM $2.30/hr Deploy AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB ×1, on-demand · AMD MI300X 192GB $3.45/hr Deploy NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB ×1, on-demand · NVIDIA H100 80GB HGX $3.90/hr Deploy NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141GB ×1, on-demand · NVIDIA H200 141GB HGX $4.29/hr Deploy Prices as last read from Crusoe Cloud’s own pages. Open a card for every provider renting it.	Not published — every spot cell says contact sales	Not published — 'contact us to lock in guaranteed resources at our lowest rates'
Minimum term	None	—	A stated Commitment Term
Billing	By the hour	—	Fees for the whole commitment term
Uptime SLA	99.5% per GPU VM, monthly	—	99.5% per GPU VM, monthly
Tenancy	GPU VMs on lightweight virtualisation	Same GPU instances, spot capacity	Reserved capacity at the lowest rates
Provisioning	Self-serve; clusters in minutes via CMK or CMS	—	Via console, CLI, API or order form
Payment	Fees per the Admin Console; taxes extra	—	Order form or console request

Details

Billing & access

How you pay

Fees per the Admin Console or a separate agreement

Currency

USD; taxes on top

Commitment discounts

Committed instances at the lowest rates, by contact

Refunds

Committed instances are non-cancellable and non-refundable

Late payment

1.5% per month interest plus collection costs

What you get

GPUs listed

NVIDIA GB200 NVL72, NVIDIA B200 HGX, NVIDIA H200 HGX, NVIDIA H100 HGX, NVIDIA A100 SXM 80GB, NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB, NVIDIA L40S, AMD MI355X, AMD MI300X

Node configuration

HGX nodes for H100/H200/B200; NVL72 for GB200

Interconnect

Quantum-2 InfiniBand; ROCm for AMD

Local storage

Ephemeral disks per VM

Persistent storage

Persistent $0.08 · shared $0.07 · object $0.06 · registry $0.10 per GiB-month

Ingress

Free

Private networking

Private global backbone; hybrid full-mesh iBGP with MPLS-TE

Images

Built-in NVIDIA drivers; ROCm for AMD; no manual setup

Access methods

Developer Console, CLI, API

Model deployment

Managed Inference and Serverless Fine-Tuning

Managed inference

Serverless Inference, Self-Serve and Tailored Deployments

Managed Kubernetes

Crusoe Managed Kubernetes, $0.10 per cluster-hour

Serverless

Serverless Fine-Tuning, GA

Kubernetes integration

Crusoe Managed Kubernetes and Managed Slurm

FAQ

How much does Crusoe Cloud cost?

As of September 2026, the lowest published on-demand rate is $1.50 per GPU-hour for the NVIDIA L40S 48GB. Crusoe Cloud publishes an on-demand rate for 6 GPU models. Billing is hourly for instances.

Does Crusoe Cloud have an uptime SLA?

Crusoe Cloud states 99.5% per GPU VM, monthly. Service credits: financial Credits, claim within 30 days with logs; capped at the month's fees; sole remedy.

Is there a minimum commitment on Crusoe Cloud?

No. Crusoe Cloud states none on hourly instances.

Does Crusoe Cloud charge for egress?

No. Crusoe Cloud states that egress is free.

Can I sign up to Crusoe Cloud without approval?

Are Crusoe Cloud payments refundable?

Crusoe Cloud states: committed instances are non-cancellable and non-refundable.

Who do you contract with at Crusoe Cloud?

The contracting entity is Crusoe Energy Systems LLC (Delaware).

Reviewed September 2026, from Crusoe Cloud’s own site. 48 facts, each quoted from the page it was read on.