Vast.ai vs Google Cloud

Round by round

1. Round 1The cheapest H100Vast.ai wins
   Vast.ai8/10

   $1.73/hr

   lowest H100 SXM offer on the marketplace

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

   Source: vast.ai ↗

   Google Cloud5/10

   $11.06

   worked out from $88.49 an hour for an a3-highgpu-8g with eight H100s

   • $11.06, against $0.90

   Source: cloud.google.com ↗

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

2. Round 2The cheapest A100Vast.ai wins
   Vast.ai8/10

   $0.37/hr

   A100 PCIe GPU price

   • the lowest A100 PCIe offer on the marketplace

   Source: vast.ai ↗

   Google Cloud5/10

   $3.67

   worked out from $29.38708 an hour for an a2-highgpu-8g with eight A100s

   • $3.67, against $0.35

   Source: cloud.google.com ↗

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

3. Round 3How many places it runsVast.ai wins
   Vast.ai8/10

   40+

   data centers

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

   Source: vast.ai ↗

   Google Cloud5/10

   43 regions

   global regions

   • 43 regions, against 500+ locations

   Source: cloud.google.com ↗

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

4. Round 4What customers say on TrustpilotVast.ai wins
   Vast.ai8/10

   4.1 out of 5

   TrustScore from 232 reviews on Trustpilot

   Source: trustpilot.com ↗

   Google Cloud5/10

   1.4 out of 5

   TrustScore from 43 reviews on Trustpilot

   • 1.4 out of 5, against 4.1 out of 5

   Source: trustpilot.com ↗

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

5. Round 5What it costs to get your data outTie
   Vast.ai7/10

   Bandwidth charged both ways

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

   Source: docs.vast.ai ↗

   Google Cloud7/10

   $0.12 per GiB to start

   premium-tier internet egress to North America after the first GiB

   Source: cloud.google.com ↗

   Nothing to separate them here.

6. Round 6How precisely you are billedTie
   Vast.ai7/10

   Per-second billing

   at raw marketplace rates

   Source: vast.ai ↗

   Google Cloud7/10

   Per-second after the first minute

   vCPUs, GPUs and memory are charged a one-minute minimum, then per second

   Source: cloud.google.com ↗

   Nothing to separate them here.

7. Round 7How much you save by committingGoogle Cloud wins
   Vast.ai5/10

   Up to 50% off

   marketplace GPU cloud (on-demand / interruptible / reserved)

   • Up to 50% off, against Up to 55% off

   Source: vast.ai ↗

   Google Cloud8/10

   Up to 55% off

   Compute Engine on-demand (US); Cloud Run for serverless

   Source: cloud.google.com ↗

   Google Cloud wins this round on what the published sources say.

Side by side

Best for the cheapest h100Vast.ai

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Google Cloud

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Overall score

7.2

Best

6.0

Price

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See price

The cheapest H100

8.0

5.0

The cheapest A100

8.0

5.0

What it costs to get your data out

5.3

5.3

How many places it runs

8.0

7.0

How cheap you can start

7.4

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Head-to-head findings

The cheapest H100

$1.73

$11.06

The cheapest A100

$0.37/hr

$3.67

What it costs to get your data out

Bandwidth charged both ways

$0.12 per GiB to start

How many places it runs

40+

43 regions

How cheap you can start

$0.11/hr

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What customers say on Trustpilot

4.1 out of 5

1.4 out of 5

How precisely you are billed

Per-second billing

Per-second after the first minute

What storage costs per month

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$0.10/GiB-mo (balanced PD)

Record

Head-to-head record

8–0

0–7

Head-to-heads won

100 %

0 %

Rounds won

65 %

24 %

Pros

• 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

• 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

• $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

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