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Crusoe vs Vast.ai

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What's good about...

Crusoe logo Crusoe

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

Crusoe logo Crusoe Pricing

Crusoe offers flexible pricing with on-demand, spot, and reserved options for GPU instances. Longer-term commitments (6-month to 3-year) provide cost savings. CPU instances are priced per core with different performance tiers available. Detailed machine specifications are available in their documentation.

Vast.ai logo Vast.ai Pricing

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.

Crusoe Crusoe
Vast.ai Vast.ai
H100 $3.90 $1.73 H200 $4.29 $3.34 A100 $2.00 $0.40 L40S $1.50 $0.74

Billing Options

Crusoe Crusoe
On-DemandSpotReservation
Vast.ai Vast.ai
On-DemandSpotReserved (1mo)Reserved (3mo)Reserved (6mo)Reserved (12mo)

Available Models

Crusoe offers 5 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 55.

Crusoe Crusoe
H100(3) H200(3) A100(7) L40S(7) MI300X(3)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
H100(62) H200(34) RTX PRO 6000(61) A100(64) L40S(4) B200(8) RTX A6000(4) V100(10) RTX 5090(25) L4(13)
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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 Crusoe and Vast.ai offer:

Service Crusoe Vast.ai
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Crusoe Crusoe
crusoe.ai
Vast.ai Vast.ai
vast.ai
Headquarters
Crusoe Crusoe
United States of America US flag
Vast.ai Vast.ai
United States of America US flag
Founded
Crusoe Crusoe
2018
Vast.ai Vast.ai
2018
Data Center Locations
Crusoe Crusoe
5
Vast.ai Vast.ai
10
Example Customers
Crusoe Crusoe
Decart, MIT, Together.ai, Windsurf, Gridspace
Vast.ai Vast.ai
IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch

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