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Build AI vs GCP

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What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Build AI

Cost efficient, save up to 50% on GPU costs
Predictable interruptions during peak energy hours
Offers high-performance Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs
Powered by renewable energy

Google Cloud

Extensive range of managed services with a focus on big data and machine learning
BigQuery and Google Kubernetes Engine are widely considered industry-leading solutions
Strong community and developer tooling
40+ data centers around the world

Price comparison

How do Build AI's prices compare against Google Cloud?

Example configuration	Build AI	Google Cloud
VM Small	--	$20.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (E2 custom)
VM Medium	--	$90.15 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)
VM Large	--	$179.87 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)
Block Storage	--	$4.10 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	--	$24.93 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	--	$29.44 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	--	$93.60 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	--	$35.28 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (Basic)
Serverless 25M Executions	--	$47.62 / mo 25M invocations, 2nd gen, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	--	Depends on service
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	--	$111.60

What makes Build AI's pricing stand out is that you can run your workload on interruptible GPUs (spot) and save up to 50% of the cost. They claim interruptions last about 2 hours per day, which makes them particularly suited for training workloads.

If you require guaranteed uptime, non-interruptible GPUs can be reserved on their platform too.

Build AI offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
A100 (spot)	1x A100	40GB	15	200GB	$1.05
A100	1x A100	40GB	15	200GB	$1.42
A100 (spot)	1x A100	80GB	30	225GB	$1.45
A100	1x A100	80GB	30	225GB	$1.97
H100 (spot)	1x H100	80GB	26	225GB	$2.79
H100	1x H100	80GB	26	225GB	$3.85

GCP offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
g2-standard-4	1x L4	24GB	4	16GB	$0.71
g2-standard-8	1x L4	24GB	8	32GB	$0.85
g2-standard-12	1x L4	24GB	12	48GB	$1.00
g2-standard-16	1x L4	24GB	16	64GB	$1.15
g2-standard-32	1x L4	24GB	32	128GB	$1.73
g2-standard-24	2x L4	48GB	24	96GB	$2.00
a2-highgpu-1g	1x A100	40GB	12	85GB	$3.67
g2-standard-48	4x L4	96GB	48	192GB	$4.00
a2-highgpu-2g	2x A100	80GB	24	170GB	$7.35
g2-standard-96	8x L4	192GB	96	384GB	$8.00
a2-highgpu-4g	4x A100	160GB	48	340GB	$14.69
a2-highgpu-8g	8x A100	320GB	96	680GB	$29.39
a2-megagpu-16g	16x A100	640GB	96	1360GB	$55.74

Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

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Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that Build AI and Google Cloud offer:

Service	Build AI	Google Cloud
Block Storage	--
Content Delivery Network (CDN)	--
Container Registry	--
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer	--
Managed Containers	--
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL	--
Managed PostgreSQL	--
Managed Redis®*	--
Object Storage	--
Serverless Cron Jobs	--
Serverless Functions	--
Static Sites	--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

	Build AI	Google Cloud
Website	trybuild.ai	cloud.google.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2024	2008
Data Center Locations	1	40
Example Customers	--	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank

	Build AI
Website	trybuild.ai
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2024
Data Center Locations	1
Example Customers	--

	Google Cloud
Website	cloud.google.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008
Data Center Locations	40
Example Customers	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank