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Cerebrium vs Vast.ai

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What's good about...

Cerebrium logo Cerebrium

  • Per-second billing, with no charge for idle GPUs
  • Cold starts of 2-4 seconds via memory and GPU snapshots
  • SOC 2 Type II, HIPAA, GDPR and ISO 27001 certified
  • Ten GPU types, from T4 to B200
  • Region pinning for data residency, on US and EU capacity

Vast.ai logo Vast.ai

  • 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

How do Cerebrium's prices compare against Vast.ai?

VM Small

Cerebrium Cerebrium
$22.73 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (CPU only)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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VM Medium

Cerebrium Cerebrium
$113.94 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CPU only)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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VM Large

Cerebrium Cerebrium
$227.89 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU only)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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Block Storage

Cerebrium Cerebrium
$5.00 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB included
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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Vast.ai logo Vast.ai Pricing Details

Hosts set their own rates. Compute is billed per second from prepaid credits. Storage charges continue while an instance is stopped, and bandwidth fees vary by host.

  • On-demand: Fixed rates for the offer's maximum duration.
  • Interruptible: Bid for capacity. Instances pause if you're outbid or an on-demand renter takes the machine.
  • Reserved: Prepay for a fixed term, with larger discounts for longer commitments.

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Cerebrium Cerebrium
Vast.ai Vast.ai
H100 $3.40 $2.00 B200 $6.01 $6.88 H200 $4.20 $3.97 A100 $2.00 $1.69

Billing Options

Cerebrium Cerebrium
On-Demand
Vast.ai Vast.ai
On-DemandSpotReserved (1mo)Reserved (3mo)Reserved (6mo)

Available Models

Cerebrium offers 9 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 14.

Cerebrium Cerebrium
H100(4) H200(4) A100(8) RTX PRO 6000(4) B200(4) L40S(4) L4(4) T4(4) A10(4)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
H100(11) H200(5) A100(5) RTX PRO 6000(1) B200(6) B300(2) RTX 5090(21) RTX 4090(2) A4000(1) RTX 3090(1)
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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.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Cerebrium and Vast.ai offer:

Service Cerebrium Vast.ai
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers
Serverless Functions

Company details

Website
Cerebrium Cerebrium
www.cerebrium.ai
Vast.ai Vast.ai
vast.ai
Headquarters
Cerebrium Cerebrium
United States of America US flag
Vast.ai Vast.ai
United States of America US flag
Founded
Cerebrium Cerebrium
2021
Vast.ai Vast.ai
2018
Data Center Locations
Cerebrium Cerebrium
3
Vast.ai Vast.ai
10
Example Customers
Cerebrium Cerebrium
Tavus, Deepgram, Resemble AI
Vast.ai Vast.ai
IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch

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Our data for Cerebrium was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Sept. 11, 2026.