Gcore vs Vast.ai

What's good about each

Gcore

Cloud regions on six continents
Free egress from virtual machines and bare metal
Per-minute billing, only while a VM runs
Nvidia GPUs from L40S up to GB300 NVL72 racks
CDN and DDoS protection on the same account

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
REST API, CLI, Python SDK and coding agent plugins

Price comparison

Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.

Service	Gcore	Vast.ai
Small VM	$11.65 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (g3a-standard-1-2)	-- Not listed
Medium VM	$46.64 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (g3a-standard-4-8)	-- Not listed
Large VM	$93.30 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (g3a-standard-8-16)	-- Not listed
Object storage	$51.97 /mo 1 TB (Standard)	-- Not listed
Load balancer	$17.05 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (lb1-1-2)	-- Not listed
Serverless	$7.41 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms (Darmstadt)	-- Not listed
Egress	Free from VMs, billed from Object Storage	-- 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

Gcore offers 6 GPU models. We don't currently list GPU prices for Vast.ai.

All 6 GPUs on Gcore

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	Gcore	Vast.ai
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Object Storage
Serverless Functions
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Compliance

Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.

Framework	Gcore	Vast.ai
SOC 2	Type I	Type II, platform only
ISO 27001	Yes	--
HIPAA	--	Secure Cloud tier only
GDPR	Yes	Yes
PCI DSS	Yes	--

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	Gcore	Vast.ai
Founded	2014	2018
Headquarters	Luxembourg	USA
Locations	33	--
Example customers	Microsoft, ProSieben, Higgsfield, Leonardo AI, Funcom	IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch
Website	gcore.com	vast.ai

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Our data for Gcore was last updated on Oct. 21, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Oct. 15, 2026.