Vast.ai review

Facts from Vast.ai’s own pricing and docs pages, September 2026 — 50 read from a quoted sentence on the page we archived.

Summary

Vast.ai rents GPUs from $0.10 per GPU-hour on demand, bills per second. The minimum to start is $5 minimum to start. Vast.ai does not publish an uptime SLA.

SOC 2 Type IISpend limitsRefundable balanceVolume discounts

From

$0.10/GPU-hr

Billing

Per second

Minimum commitment

$5 minimum to start

Egress

Priced per byte by each host

Uptime SLA

not stated

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On-demand pricing

NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB

×2, on demand · RTX PRO 6000 S

$1.34/hr

Deploy

NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141GB

×4, on demand · H200

$4.61/hr

Deploy

NVIDIA B200 SXM6 180GB

×1, on demand · B200

$6.25/hr

Deploy

NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB

×1, on demand · A100 SXM4

$0.75/hr

Deploy

NVIDIA RTX 4090 24GBLowest

×1, on demand · RTX 4090

$0.43/hr

Deploy

See all 53 Vast.ai offers →

What’s good

Lowest published on-demand rate is $0.10/GPU-hr (NVIDIA RTX 5060 8GB)

Billing is per second

Self-serve signup — no sales call to get started

Commitment discounts: reserved: up to 50% off for 1/3/6-month terms

Spend controls: low-balance email alerts

SOC 2 Type II (Secure Cloud)

Plans

	On-Demand	Interruptible	Reserved
From	Market-set; H100 from $0.90/hr	Often 50%+ below on-demand	Up to 50% off on-demand
Minimum term	None; $5 to get started	None	1, 3 or 6 months
Billing	Per second	Per second	Prepaid for the term
Uptime SLA	Guaranteed uptime, no interruptions	None — preemptible	Guaranteed capacity
Tenancy	Isolated instance on a host's machine	Same machines; may be paused when outbid	Guaranteed capacity
Provisioning	~60 seconds	~60 seconds	Convert a running on-demand instance
Payment	Prepaid credits	Prepaid credits	Prepaid credits

Details

Billing & access

How you pay

Prepaid credits; optional auto top-up

Currency

USD

Commitment discounts

Reserved: up to 50% off for 1/3/6-month terms

Approval or KYC

Card and email verification

When funds run out

Instances stopped; deletion after a spend-based grace period

Stopped instances keep accruing storage charges; with no card on file, instances and data are destroyed.

Late payment

Instances stopped at $0; card charged for negative balance if saved

Provisioning guarantee

Reserved only

What you get

GPUs listed

68+ GPU types, RTX 3060 to B200

Architectures listed: Blackwell (RTX 5090), Hopper (H100 NVL/SXM/PCIe, H200), Ada (RTX 4090, L-series, RTX Ada), Ampere (RTX 3090, RTX A-series, A100), Volta/Tesla, Turing, Pascal, Maxwell.

Regions

40+ data centres worldwide

Node configuration

Set by each host; shown per offer

Local storage

Per-second storage charge, even while stopped

Persistent storage

Storage volumes

Ingress

Priced per byte by each host

Public endpoints

Direct SSH; ports per instance

Private networking

Private VPN access (enterprise)

Images

Official and community templates; bring your own

Access methods

Console, SSH, CLI, API, Python SDK

Model deployment

Serverless endpoints; model library

Managed inference

Serverless, at the underlying instance cost

Serverless

Yes, no separate pricing tier

FAQ

How much does Vast.ai cost?

As of September 2026, the lowest published on-demand rate is $0.10 per GPU-hour for the NVIDIA RTX 5060 8GB. Vast.ai publishes an on-demand rate for 17 GPU models. Billing is per second.

Does Vast.ai have an uptime SLA?

Vast.ai does not publish an uptime commitment on its own site.

Is there a minimum commitment on Vast.ai?

Vast.ai states its minimum as $5 minimum to start.

Does Vast.ai charge for egress?

Vast.ai states its egress terms as priced per byte by each host.

Can I sign up to Vast.ai without approval?

Vast.ai states that signup is self-serve. On approval and identity checks it states: card and email verification.

Are Vast.ai payments refundable?

Vast.ai states: spent credits final; unspent balance refundable at discretion.

Where are Vast.ai's data centres?

Vast.ai lists 40+ data centres worldwide.

Who do you contract with at Vast.ai?

The contracting entity is Vast.ai Inc. (Delaware).

Reviewed September 2026, from Vast.ai’s own site. 50 facts, each quoted from the page it was read on.