Cloudflare
vs
Vast.ai
What's good about each
- Every service runs in every datacenter, 300+ cities
- No egress fees on R2 object storage or Workers
- Free tier covers CDN, DNS, WAF and DDoS mitigation
- One platform for serverless compute, storage, SQL and vector search
- 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 | Cloudflare | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Object storage | $15.81 /mo 1 TB (R2 Standard) | -- Not listed | |
| Serverless | $82.50 /mo 25M invocations, 150 ms CPU time | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | Free for most services | -- 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
Vast.ai offers 65 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Cloudflare. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Cloudflare | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
50 configs
|
-- | $0.37 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
B300
2 configs
|
-- | $4.88 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
B200
8 configs
|
-- | $5.94 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
98 configs
|
-- | $0.34 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
H200
30 configs
|
-- | $0.54 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 5090
176 configs
|
-- | $0.27 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
A100
94 configs
|
-- | $0.19 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 4090
167 configs
|
-- | $0.20 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
L40S
25 configs
|
-- | $0.34 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 3090
98 configs
|
-- | $0.08 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
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 | Cloudflare | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Type II, platform only |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | -- |
| HIPAA | Enterprise only | Secure Cloud tier only |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | Level 1, some products | -- |
| FedRAMP | High, Cloudflare for Government | -- |
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
| Fact | Cloudflare | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2009 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 312 | 10 |
| Example customers | Shopify, DoorDash, Discord, Intercom, Zendesk | IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch |
| Website | cloudflare.com | vast.ai |
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Our data for Cloudflare was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Oct. 2, 2026.