RunPod vs Vast.ai

Round by round

1. Round 1The cheapest H100Vast.ai wins
   RunPod5/10

   $1.99

   H100 PCIe on Community Cloud ($2.89 on Secure Cloud)

   • $1.99, against $0.90

   Source: runpod.io ↗

   Vast.ai8/10

   $1.73

   H100 SXM starting price

   • the lowest H100 offer on the marketplace (offers seen ran from about $2 to $19)

   Source: vast.ai ↗

   Vast.ai wins this round on what the company itself publishes.

2. Round 2The cheapest A100Vast.ai wins
   RunPod5/10

   $1.19

   A100 PCIe on Community Cloud ($1.59 on Secure Cloud)

   • $1.19, against $0.35

   Source: runpod.io ↗

   Vast.ai8/10

   $0.37/hr

   A100 PCIe hourly rate

   • the lowest A100 PCIe offer on the marketplace

   Source: vast.ai ↗

   Vast.ai wins this round on what the company itself publishes.

3. Round 3How cheap you can startVast.ai wins
   RunPod5/10

   $0.34/hr

   RTX 4090, Community Cloud ($0.89/hr on Secure Cloud)

   • $0.34, against $0.13

   Source: runpod.io ↗

   Vast.ai8/10

   $0.11/hr

   RTX 3090

   • the lowest rate on the marketplace, for consumer GPUs

   Source: vast.ai ↗

   Vast.ai wins this round on what the company itself publishes.

4. Round 4What it costs to get your data outRunPod wins
   RunPod8/10

   No egress fees

   no charge for data in or out of pods

   Source: docs.runpod.io ↗

   Vast.ai5/10

   Bandwidth charged both ways

   billed per byte sent or received, at rates that vary by host

   • Bandwidth charged both ways, against No egress fees

   Source: docs.vast.ai ↗

   RunPod wins this round on what the company itself publishes.

5. Round 5How many places it runsVast.ai wins
   RunPod5/10

   31 regions

   regions it runs in

   • 31 regions, against 500+ locations

   Source: runpod.io ↗

   Vast.ai8/10

   40+

   data centers

   • host locations on a marketplace, not data-center regions

   Source: vast.ai ↗

   Vast.ai wins this round on what the company itself publishes.

6. Round 6What customers say on TrustpilotVast.ai wins
   RunPod5/10

   3.8 out of 5

   TrustScore from 315 reviews on Trustpilot

   • 3.8 out of 5, against 4.1 out of 5

   Source: trustpilot.com ↗

   Vast.ai8/10

   4.1 out of 5

   TrustScore from 232 reviews on Trustpilot

   Source: trustpilot.com ↗

   Vast.ai wins this round on independent review-site data, not on its own claims.

Side by side

Top ratedRunPod

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Best for the cheapest h100Vast.ai

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Overall score

7.4

Best

7.2

Price

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The cheapest H100

7.6

8.0

The cheapest A100

7.6

8.0

What it costs to get your data out

7.8

5.3

How many places it runs

6.0

8.0

How cheap you can start

6.8

7.4

Head-to-head findings

The cheapest H100

$1.99

$1.73

The cheapest A100

$1.19

$0.37/hr

What it costs to get your data out

No egress fees

Bandwidth charged both ways

How many places it runs

31 regions

40+

How cheap you can start

$0.34/hr

$0.11/hr

What customers say on Trustpilot

3.8 out of 5

4.1 out of 5

How precisely you are billed

Billed by the second

Per-second billing

What storage costs per month

$0.07/GB-mo (network volume)

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Record

Head-to-head record

7–1

8–0

Head-to-heads won

88 %

100 %

Rounds won

77 %

65 %

Pros

• H100 PCIe on Community Cloud ($2.89 on Secure Cloud)
• A100 PCIe on Community Cloud ($1.59 on Secure Cloud)

• the lowest H100 offer on the marketplace (offers seen ran from about $2 to $19)
• the lowest A100 PCIe offer on the marketplace
• the lowest rate on the marketplace, for consumer GPUs
• host locations on a marketplace, not data-center regions

Cons

• $1.99, against $0.90
• $1.19, against $0.35
• $0.34, against $0.13
• 31 regions, against 500+ locations

• Bandwidth charged both ways, against No egress fees
• Bandwidth charged both ways, against Free
• Up to 50% off, against Up to 60% off
• $0.13, against Free GPU notebooks

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