EmpirioLabs AI vs Nova Cloud

What's good about each

EmpirioLabs AI

Text, image, video, audio and 3D models on one account
Niche and research models alongside the mainstream ones
OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini request formats
On-demand Nvidia GPUs, from RTX 5090 to B200

Nova Cloud

Per-second billing with no contracts or minimum spend
Owned-and-operated datacenters in Western Canada
Reserved 1, 3, and 6 month terms for additional discounts
5 Gb/s network bandwidth with all ports available

GPUs

EmpirioLabs AI offers 18 GPU models, while Nova Cloud offers 2. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU	EmpirioLabs AI	Nova Cloud	Difference
RTX PRO 6000 4 configs · 20 configs	$2.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	$1.56 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out	35% cheaper on Nova Cloud
RTX 5090 2 configs · 20 configs	$1.10 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.66 /GPU/hr On-demand	40% cheaper on Nova Cloud
H100 6 configs	$3.80 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	EmpirioLabs AI only
B300 1 config	$17.50 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	EmpirioLabs AI only
B200 2 configs	$10.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	EmpirioLabs AI only
H200 4 configs	$6.00 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	EmpirioLabs AI only
A100 5 configs	$1.70 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	EmpirioLabs AI only
RTX 4090 2 configs	$0.90 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	EmpirioLabs AI only
L40S 3 configs	$0.80 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	EmpirioLabs AI only
RTX 6000 Ada 3 configs	$1.40 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	EmpirioLabs AI only

All 18 GPUs on EmpirioLabs AI All 2 GPUs on Nova Cloud

EmpirioLabs AI bills on-demand; Nova Cloud bills on-demand, spot and reserved (1, 3 or 6 months). The line under each price names the billing type shown.

Salad

Access 60,000+ daily active GPUs across 191 countries, from $0.02/hour

Run RTX 50-series and 40-series cards without datacenter pricing

Pick a priority level to balance cost against interruptions

Per-second billing, with no charge for cold starts or image pulls

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Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Service	EmpirioLabs AI	Nova Cloud
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers

Company details

Fact	EmpirioLabs AI	Nova Cloud
Founded	--	2018
Headquarters	USA	Canada
Locations	6	1
Example customers	--	--
Website	empiriolabs.ai	nova-cloud.ai

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Our data for EmpirioLabs AI was last updated on Sept. 29, 2026, and for Nova Cloud on Sept. 29, 2026.