AceCloud
vs
Vast.ai
What's good about each
- Good range of high-performance NVIDIA GPUs
- On-demand billing with instance hibernation to optimize savings
- Operates 10+ data centers globally including locations in India and USA
- Offers 24/7 support with 99.99% uptime SLA
- Free credits for new users (₹20,000/$200 for 30 days)
- Budget cards to Blackwell, including the RTX PRO 6000 and B200
- On-demand, interruptible and reserved rentals
- SOC 2 Type II certified, with vetted datacenter hosts in Secure Cloud
- Host reliability ratings and GPU performance benchmarks
- REST API, CLI, Python SDK and coding agent plugins
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | AceCloud | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $15.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GiB RAM (C3a.medium) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $60.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (C3a.xlarge) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $119.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (C3a.2xlarge) | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $9.00 /mo 100 GB | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $10.24 /mo 1 TB | -- Not listed | |
| PostgreSQL | $75.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (DB.2.8) | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | $75.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (DB.2.8) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $16.00 /mo | -- Not listed |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
AceCloud offers 9 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 64. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | AceCloud | Vast.ai | Difference |
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$3.68 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo) | $2.39 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo) | 35% cheaper on Vast.ai |
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$2.22 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo) | $1.20 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo) | 46% cheaper on Vast.ai |
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$4.07 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo) | $4.43 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo) | 8% cheaper on AceCloud |
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$1.84 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo) | $0.61 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo) | 67% cheaper on Vast.ai |
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$1.87 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand | 71% cheaper on Vast.ai |
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$1.15 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo) | $0.55 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo) | 53% cheaper on Vast.ai |
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$0.60 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | $0.20 /GPU/hr Spot | Different terms |
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$1.16 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.39 /GPU/hr On-demand | 66% cheaper on Vast.ai |
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$0.67 /GPU/hr Reserved (12 mo) | -- | AceCloud only |
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-- | $4.88 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
AceCloud bills on-demand and reserved (1, 6 or 12 months); Vast.ai bills on-demand, spot and reserved (1, 3, 6, 12, 24, 36 or 48 months). The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | AceCloud | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Data centers only | Type II, platform only |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | -- |
| HIPAA | US data centers only | Secure Cloud tier only |
| GDPR | -- | Yes |
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | AceCloud | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2010 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | India | USA |
| Locations | 3 | 10 |
| Example customers | Spherum, IIT Madras, Inflolabs, VjJTechnologies | IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch |
| Website | acecloud.ai | vast.ai |
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Our data for AceCloud was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Oct. 2, 2026.