Fluidstack vs Nova Cloud

What's good about each

Fluidstack

Managed Slurm and Kubernetes clusters on bare metal
Active and passive cluster health checks with observability
ClusterMAX Gold rating from SemiAnalysis
Custom data centers built for a single customer's workload

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

Nova Cloud offers 2 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Fluidstack. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU	Fluidstack	Nova Cloud	Difference
RTX PRO 6000 20 configs	--	$0.30 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out	Nova Cloud only
RTX 5090 20 configs	--	$0.53 /GPU/hr Reserved (6 mo)	Nova Cloud only

All 2 GPUs on Nova Cloud

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	Fluidstack	Nova Cloud
GPU-powered Servers

Company details

Fact	Fluidstack	Nova Cloud
Founded	2017	2018
Headquarters	USA	Canada
Locations	4	1
Example customers	--	--
Website	www.fluidstack.io	nova-cloud.ai

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Our data for Fluidstack was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Nova Cloud on Oct. 1, 2026.