Build AI vs Paperspace

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Build AI

Cost efficient, claims to save up to 50% on GPU costs
Predictable interruptions during peak energy hours
Offers Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs

Paperspace

Competitive GPU prices
Managed platform, from notebooks to container-based clusters
Free ingress and egress

Price comparison

How do Build AI's prices compare against Paperspace?

Example configuration	Build AI	Paperspace
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	--	Free and unlimited Burst up to 10 Gbps, then soft capped at 900 Mbps

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	Source
A100	1x A100	40GB	15	200GB	$1.42	Source
A100 (spot)	1x A100	80GB	30	225GB	$1.45	Source
A100	1x A100	80GB	30	225GB	$1.97	Source
H100 (spot)	1x H100	80GB	26	225GB	$2.79	Source
H100	1x H100	80GB	26	225GB	$3.85	Source

Paperspace offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
GPU+ (M4000)	1x M4000	8GB	8	30GB	$0.45	Source
P4000	1x P4000	8GB	8	30GB	$0.51	Source
RTX4000	1x RTX 4000	24GB	8	30GB	$0.56	Source
P5000	1x P5000	16GB	8	30GB	$0.78	Source
A4000	1x A4000	16GB	8	45GB	$0.80	Launch
RTX5000	1x RTX 5000	16GB	8	30GB	$0.82	Source
P6000	1x P6000	24GB	8	30GB	$1.10	Source
A5000	1x A5000	24GB	8	45GB	$1.42	Launch
A6000	1x A6000	48GB	8	45GB	$1.93	Launch
V100-32G	1x V100	32GB	8	30GB	$2.34	Launch
V100	1x V100	16GB	8	30GB	$2.34	Launch
A100	1x A100	40GB	8	90GB	$3.19	Launch
A100-80G	1x A100	80GB	8	90GB	$3.28	Launch
H100 PCIe	1x H100	80GB	16	268GB	$5.99	Launch

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.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Build AI and Paperspace offer:

Service	Build AI	Paperspace
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Kubernetes		--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)		--

Company details

	Build AI	Paperspace
Website	trybuild.ai	paperspace.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2024	2014
Data Center Locations	1	3
Example Customers	--	Fast.ai, SciSpace, Tunebat, Spectrum Labs, Kando

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

	Paperspace
Website	paperspace.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2014
Data Center Locations	3
Example Customers	Fast.ai, SciSpace, Tunebat, Spectrum Labs, Kando