Vast.ai vs Paperspace
Vast.ai comes out ahead of Paperspace on 5 of the 7 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
Vast.ai takes it, 5–2 on rounds.
On the published figures and the independent review sites, Vast.ai takes 5 of 7 rounds. Treat that as a starting point and check the current figures on both pages, because prices and plans move.
Choose Vast.ai if…
- • You want Vast.ai's edge on the cheapest h100 and the cheapest a100
Choose Paperspace if…
- • You want Paperspace's edge on how cheap you can start and what it costs to get your data out
Round by round
- Round 1The cheapest H100Vast.ai winsVast.ai8/10
$1.48/hr
H100 SXM 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.
- Round 2The cheapest A100Vast.ai winsVast.ai8/10
$0.37/hr
A100 PCIe GPU price
- the lowest A100 PCIe offer on the marketplace
Source: vast.ai ↗
Paperspace5/10$1.15 (3-year commitment)
Compute Usage pricing > Dedicated GPUs. Footnote: '$1.15/hour pricing is for a 3-year commitment'.
- $3.09, against $0.35
Source: paperspace.com ↗
Vast.ai wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- Round 3How cheap you can startPaperspace winsVast.ai5/10
$0.02/hr
On-demand rate, GTX 1660 S — lowest of all listed GPUs (Tesla P100 from $0.03/hr, RTX A2000 from $0.03/hr)
- $0.13, against Free GPU notebooks
Source: vast.ai ↗
Paperspace8/10Free GPU notebooks
a free GPU (M4000) for notebooks in private workspaces only
Source: paperspace.com ↗
Paperspace wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- Round 4What it costs to get your data outPaperspace winsVast.ai5/10
Bandwidth charged both ways
billed per byte sent or received, at rates that vary by host
- Bandwidth charged both ways, against No ingress or egress charges
Source: docs.vast.ai ↗
Paperspace8/10No ingress or egress charges
no charge for bandwidth on Paperspace Machines
Source: docs.digitalocean.com ↗
Paperspace wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- Round 5How many places it runsVast.ai winsVast.ai8/10
40+ data centers
Marketplace coverage wording: 'Prices set by supply and demand across 40+ data centers.' Homepage also says 'On-demand instances across 40+ data centers and 20,000+ GPUs.'
- host locations on a marketplace, not data-center regions
Source: vast.ai ↗
Paperspace5/103 data centers
Secaucus, Santa Clara and Amsterdam
- 3 data centers, against 500+ locations
Source: paperspace.com ↗
Vast.ai wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- Round 6How precisely you are billedVast.ai winsPaperspace5/10
Not stated
Paperspace's pricing FAQ says billing runs monthly; no billing increment is stated
- Billed by the hour, against Per-second billing
Source: paperspace.com ↗
Vast.ai wins this round on what the company itself publishes.
- Round 7What customers say on TrustpilotVast.ai winsPaperspace5/10
1.5 out of 5
TrustScore from 97 reviews on Trustpilot
- 1.5 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.
Side by side
- 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
- single A100 machine, per hour
- 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
- $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