Elastx logo Elastx vs Vast.ai logo Vast.ai

What's good about each

  • Three availability zones, all in Sweden
  • ISO 27001, 27017, 27018 and 14001 certified
  • 24/7 support included at no extra cost
  • Datacenters run on 100% renewable electricity
  • A100, L4, L40S and RTX PRO 6000 GPUs
  • 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 Elastx Vast.ai Difference
Small VM $26.12 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB disk -- Not listed
Medium VM $126.43 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 120 GB disk -- Not listed
Large VM $252.86 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 240 GB disk -- Not listed
Block storage $28.32 /mo 100 GB SSD (4000 IOPS) -- Not listed
Object storage $69.87 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress -- Not listed
PostgreSQL $182.77 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB disk -- Not listed
Redis $182.77 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB disk (Valkey) -- Not listed
Load balancer $38.59 /mo v1-lb-1 -- Not listed
Egress $49.85 /TB 1 TB external traffic -- 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

Elastx offers 4 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 64. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU Elastx Vast.ai Difference
Nvidia logo RTX PRO 6000 1 config · 89 configs $2.77 /GPU/hr On-demand $1.07 /GPU/hr On-demand 61% cheaper on Vast.ai
Nvidia logo A100 2 configs · 113 configs $3.59 /GPU/hr On-demand $0.34 /GPU/hr On-demand 91% cheaper on Vast.ai
Nvidia logo L40S 1 config · 34 configs $2.20 /GPU/hr On-demand $0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand 76% cheaper on Vast.ai
Nvidia logo L4 1 config · 7 configs $0.98 /GPU/hr On-demand $0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand 67% cheaper on Vast.ai
Nvidia logo H100 68 configs -- $0.36 /GPU/hr Spot Vast.ai only
Nvidia logo B300 6 configs -- $4.88 /GPU/hr Spot Vast.ai only
Nvidia logo B200 5 configs -- $5.94 /GPU/hr Spot Vast.ai only
Nvidia logo H200 28 configs -- $1.32 /GPU/hr Spot Vast.ai only
Nvidia logo RTX 5090 195 configs -- $0.29 /GPU/hr Spot Vast.ai only
Nvidia logo RTX 4090 188 configs -- $0.18 /GPU/hr Spot Vast.ai only

Elastx bills on-demand; 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.

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 Elastx Vast.ai
Founded 2012 2018
Headquarters Sweden USA
Locations 3 10
Example customers -- IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch
Website elastx.se vast.ai

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Our data for Elastx was last updated on Sept. 22, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Oct. 2, 2026.