Paperspace vs AWS
AWS comes out ahead of Paperspace on 5 of the 8 things that decide this, going by what each company publishes and what independent review sites report. The one that matters for you may be one the leader loses.
The verdict
AWS takes it, 5–3 on rounds.
On the published figures and the independent review sites, AWS takes 5 of 8 rounds. Treat that as a starting point and check the current figures on both pages, because prices and plans move.
Choose Paperspace if…
- • You want Paperspace's edge on what it costs to get your data out and what customers say on trustpilot
Choose AWS if…
- • You want AWS's edge on the cheapest h100 and the cheapest a100
Round by round
- Round 1The cheapest H100AWS winsAWS8/10
$6.88
p5.48xlarge $55.04/hr for 8x H100 = $6.88 per GPU-hour, on-demand, US East
- worked out from $41.528 an hour for a p5.48xlarge with eight H100s, US regions
Source: aws.amazon.com ↗
AWS wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- Round 2The cheapest A100AWS winsPaperspace5/10
$1.15 (3-year commitment)
Compute Usage pricing > Dedicated GPUs. Footnote: '$1.15/hour pricing is for a 3-year commitment'.
- $3.09, against $2.74
Source: paperspace.com ↗
AWS8/10$2.74
worked out from $21.958 an hour for a p4d.24xlarge with eight A100s
Source: instances.vantage.sh ↗
AWS wins this round on independent review-site data, not on its own claims.
- Round 3What it costs to get your data outPaperspace winsPaperspace8/10
No ingress or egress charges
no charge for bandwidth on Paperspace Machines
Source: docs.digitalocean.com ↗
AWS5/10First 100 GB free, then $0.09 per GB
data transfer out to the internet
- First 100 GB free, then $0.09 per GB, against No ingress or egress charges
Source: aws.amazon.com ↗
Paperspace wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- Round 4How many places it runsAWS winsPaperspace5/10
3 data centers
Secaucus, Santa Clara and Amsterdam
- 3 data centers, against 34 regions
Source: paperspace.com ↗
AWS wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- Round 5How precisely you are billedAWS winsPaperspace5/10
Not stated
Paperspace's pricing FAQ says billing runs monthly; no billing increment is stated
- Billed by the hour, against Per-second, 60-second minimum
Source: paperspace.com ↗
AWS8/10Per-second, 60-second minimum
on-demand instances are billed by the hour or second
Source: aws.amazon.com ↗
AWS wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- Round 6What customers say on TrustpilotPaperspace winsAWS5/10
1.3 out of 5
TrustScore from 429 reviews on Trustpilot
- 1.3 out of 5, against 1.5 out of 5
Source: trustpilot.com ↗
Paperspace wins this round on independent review-site data, not on its own claims.
- Round 7The cheapest L40SPaperspace winsPaperspace8/10
$1.57/GPU-hr
DigitalOcean GPU Droplets on-demand (Paperspace is part of DigitalOcean)
Source: digitalocean.com ↗
AWS5/10$1.86/hr (g6e.xlarge)
EC2 on-demand, US East (N. Virginia), Linux
- $1.86/hr (g6e.xlarge), against $1.57/GPU-hr
Source: aws.amazon.com ↗
Paperspace wins this round on what the published sources say.
- Round 8What storage costs per monthAWS winsPaperspace5/10
$0.10/GiB-mo (Volumes)
DigitalOcean GPU Droplets on-demand (Paperspace is part of DigitalOcean)
- $0.10/GiB-mo (Volumes), against $0.08/GB-mo (EBS gp3)
Source: digitalocean.com ↗
AWS wins this round on what the published sources say.
Side by side
- single A100 machine, per hour
- AWS Regions
- worked out from $41.528 an hour for a p5.48xlarge with eight H100s, US regions
- worked out from $47.76 an hour for a p5e.48xlarge with eight H200s
- $5.95, against $1.99
- $3.09, against $1.19
- 3 data centers, against 31 regions
- Billed by the hour, against Billed by the second
- $5.19, against $1.99
- $2.74, against $1.19
- $5.97, against $3.59
- First 100 GB free, then $0.09 per GB, against No egress fees