Civo
vs
Vast.ai
What's good about each
- Free egress and ingress
- Kubernetes control plane at no cost
- Deploy to locations in Europe and Asia
- GPUs from L40S to B300, reservable for up to 36 months
- API serving open models from the UK
- 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
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Civo | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $5.43 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (xSmall) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $43.45 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $139.05 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU Optimized Small) | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $10.88 /mo 100 GB | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $10.86 /mo 1 TB | -- Not listed | |
| PostgreSQL | $43.45 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe (Small) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $10.86 /mo 10,000 concurrent requests | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | Free and unlimited | -- Not listed |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
Civo offers 6 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 61. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Civo | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
10 configs · 47 configs
|
$2.99 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.73 /GPU/hr On-demand | 42% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
B200
3 configs · 8 configs
|
$3.79 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | $5.94 /GPU/hr Spot | Different terms |
|
H200
10 configs · 37 configs
|
$3.49 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.56 /GPU/hr On-demand | Within 5% |
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A100
40 configs · 107 configs
|
$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | 63% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
L40S
20 configs · 14 configs
|
$1.29 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.67 /GPU/hr On-demand | 48% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
B300
4 configs
|
$5.49 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Civo only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
105 configs
|
-- | $0.34 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 5090
179 configs
|
-- | $0.27 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 4090
175 configs
|
-- | $0.19 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 3090
99 configs
|
-- | $0.05 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
Civo bills on-demand and reserved (6, 12, 24 or 36 months); Vast.ai bills on-demand, spot and reserved (1, 3, 6, 12, 24, 36 or 48 months). The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Civo | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Type II, platform only |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | -- |
| HIPAA | -- | Secure Cloud tier only |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
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Our data for Civo was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Oct. 2, 2026.