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Akamai Cloud vs Theta EdgeCloud

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What's good about...

Akamai Cloud logo Akamai Cloud

  • Wide range of VPS configurations including including GPU instances
  • Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kubernetes, and Object Storage
  • Competitive pricing with generous per-instance egress allowances
  • 30+ data center locations across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America

Theta EdgeCloud logo Theta EdgeCloud

  • Datacenter H200, V100 and T4 machines, 1-4 GPUs
  • Consumer cards from a community fleet, priced per operator
  • Sharable persistent volumes that survive a stop and restart
  • Multi-node GPU clusters for distributed training
  • Inference APIs, dedicated model serving and Jupyter notebooks on the same account

Price comparison

How do Akamai Cloud's prices compare against Theta EdgeCloud?

VM Small

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$5.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared)
Theta EdgeCloud Theta EdgeCloud
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VM Medium

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared)
Theta EdgeCloud Theta EdgeCloud
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VM Large

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$144.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Dedicated 16GB)
Theta EdgeCloud Theta EdgeCloud
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Block Storage

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$10.00 / mo 100 GB
Theta EdgeCloud Theta EdgeCloud
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Object Storage

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$20.00 / mo 1 TB
Theta EdgeCloud Theta EdgeCloud
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Load Balancer

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$10.00 / mo
Theta EdgeCloud Theta EdgeCloud
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Managed PostgreSQL

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$63.00 / mo 2 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 58 GB storage (Shared, 1 node)
Theta EdgeCloud Theta EdgeCloud
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Free egress allowance

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
1-20 TB / mo per instance
Theta EdgeCloud Theta EdgeCloud
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$5.00 $0.005 / GB
Theta EdgeCloud Theta EdgeCloud
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Theta EdgeCloud logo Theta EdgeCloud Pricing Details

Both tiers bill by the hour against a prepaid organization balance, drawn down in credits.

Hosted machine types carry a published rate. A community node is priced by the operator running it, so rates for the same card vary by machine and by country.

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
On-Demand
Theta EdgeCloud Theta EdgeCloud
On-Demand

Available Models

Akamai Cloud offers 3 GPU models, while Theta EdgeCloud offers 26.

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
RTX PRO 6000(4) RTX 4000 Ada(9) Quadro RTX 6000(4)
Theta EdgeCloud Theta EdgeCloud
H200(3) RTX 5090(1) V100(2) RTX 4090(1) T4(2) RTX 3090(2) RTX 4080(3) RTX 5080(1) RTX 3080(1) RTX 3060 Ti(3)
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Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

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NVIDIA H200 from $2.20/hr, B200 from $3.40/hr, B300 from $3.80/hr
Per-second billing with no minimum commitment or vendor lock-in
Scale to 8,000 GPUs over InfiniBand for distributed AI training
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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Akamai Cloud and Theta EdgeCloud offer:

Service Akamai Cloud Theta EdgeCloud
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Object Storage
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
www.akamai.com
Theta EdgeCloud Theta EdgeCloud
www.thetaedgecloud.com
Headquarters
Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
United States of America US flag
Theta EdgeCloud Theta EdgeCloud
United States of America US flag
Founded
Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
2003
Theta EdgeCloud Theta EdgeCloud
2024
Data Center Locations
Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
31
Theta EdgeCloud Theta EdgeCloud
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Example Customers
Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
Panasonic, Best Buy, Wayfair and Giphy
Theta EdgeCloud Theta EdgeCloud
KAIST, NTU Singapore, Houston Rockets

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Our data for Akamai Cloud was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Theta EdgeCloud on Sept. 11, 2026.