Paperspace vs Google Cloud
Paperspace comes out ahead of Google Cloud on 3 of the 6 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
Paperspace takes it, 3–2 on rounds.
On the published figures and the independent review sites, Paperspace takes 3 of 6 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 the cheapest h100 and the cheapest a100
Choose Google Cloud if…
- • You want Google Cloud's edge on how many places it runs and how precisely you are billed
Round by round
- Round 1The cheapest H100Paperspace winsGoogle Cloud5/10
$11.06
worked out from $88.49 an hour for an a3-highgpu-8g with eight H100s
- $11.06, against $5.95
Source: cloud.google.com ↗
Paperspace wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- Round 2The cheapest A100Paperspace winsPaperspace8/10
$1.15 (3-year commitment)
Compute Usage pricing > Dedicated GPUs. Footnote: '$1.15/hour pricing is for a 3-year commitment'.
- single A100 machine, per hour
Source: paperspace.com ↗
Google Cloud5/10$3.67
worked out from $29.38708 an hour for an a2-highgpu-8g with eight A100s
- $3.67, against $3.09
Source: cloud.google.com ↗
Paperspace wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- 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 ↗
Google Cloud5/10$0.12 per GiB to start
premium-tier internet egress to North America after the first GiB
- $0.12 per GiB to start, against No ingress or egress charges
Source: cloud.google.com ↗
Paperspace wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- Round 4How many places it runsGoogle Cloud winsPaperspace5/10
3 data centers
Secaucus, Santa Clara and Amsterdam
- 3 data centers, against 43 regions
Source: paperspace.com ↗
Google Cloud wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- Round 5How precisely you are billedGoogle Cloud winsPaperspace5/10
Not stated
Paperspace's pricing FAQ says billing runs monthly; no billing increment is stated
- Billed by the hour, against Per-second after the first minute
Source: paperspace.com ↗
Google Cloud8/10Per-second after the first minute
vCPUs, GPUs and memory are charged a one-minute minimum, then per second
Source: cloud.google.com ↗
Google Cloud wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- Round 6What storage costs per monthTiePaperspace7/10
$0.10/GiB-mo (Volumes)
DigitalOcean GPU Droplets on-demand (Paperspace is part of DigitalOcean)
Source: digitalocean.com ↗
Google Cloud7/10$0.10/GiB-mo (balanced PD)
Compute Engine on-demand (US); Cloud Run for serverless
Source: cloud.google.com ↗
Nothing to separate them here.
Side by side
- single A100 machine, per hour
- $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
- $11.06, against $1.99
- $3.67, against $1.19
- $0.12 per GiB to start, against No egress fees
- 1.4 out of 5, against 3.8 out of 5