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Build AI vs Vultr

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Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
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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

Vultr

Wide range of VPS options (GPU, dedicated, high memory)
Various managed services (databases, Kubernetes, object storage)
Attractive pricing, generous egress
30+ data center locations around the world

Price comparison

How do Build AI's prices compare against Vultr?

Example configuration	Build AI	Vultr
VM Small	--	$5.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Medium	--	$40.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Large	--	$160.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-Optimized)
Block Storage	--	$10.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	--	$6.00 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	--	$10.00 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	--	$60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	--	$15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
Free egress allowance	--	2 TB / mo for most services
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	--	$10.00

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

Vultr offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
A16	1x A16	16GB	6	64GB	$0.51	Launch
A16	2x A16	96GB	12	128GB	$1.02	Launch
A40	1x A40	48GB	24	120GB	$1.86	Launch
A16	4x A16	192GB	24	256GB	$2.05	Launch
L40S	1x L40S	48GB	16	240GB	$2.23
A100 80GB	1x A100	80GB	12	120GB	$2.60	Reserve
A16	8x A16	384GB	48	486GB	$4.09	Reserve
GH200	1x GH200	96GB	72	480GB	$4.34
A40	4x A40	192GB	96	480GB	$7.44	Reserve
A16	16x A16	768GB	96	960GB	$9.19	Reserve
HGX A100	8x A100	5120GB	112	2048GB	$12.90
H100	8x H100	5120GB	224	2048GB	$19.99

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 Vultr offer:

Service	Build AI	Vultr
Block Storage	--
Container Registry	--
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer	--
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL	--
Managed PostgreSQL	--
Managed Redis®*	--
Object Storage	--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

	Build AI	Vultr
Website	trybuild.ai	www.vultr.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2024	2014
Data Center Locations	1	32
Example Customers	--	Edgegap, 3XC, CloudQuant, WP Bolt, VirtualShield

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

	Vultr
Website	www.vultr.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2014
Data Center Locations	32
Example Customers	Edgegap, 3XC, CloudQuant, WP Bolt, VirtualShield