Gcore
vs
Vast.ai
What's good about each
- 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
- 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 | Gcore | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $11.72 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (g3a-standard-1-2) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $46.91 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (g3a-standard-4-8) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $93.83 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (g3a-standard-8-16) | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $52.26 /mo 1 TB (Standard) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $17.15 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (lb1-1-2) | -- Not listed | |
| Serverless | $7.46 /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, while Vast.ai offers 65. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Gcore | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
9 configs · 50 configs
|
$1.73 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.73 /GPU/hr On-demand | Within 5% |
|
B300
1 config · 2 configs
|
$6.78 /GPU/hr On-demand | $9.94 /GPU/hr On-demand | 32% cheaper on Gcore |
|
H200
1 config · 30 configs
|
$3.08 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.56 /GPU/hr On-demand | 13% cheaper on Gcore |
|
A100
5 configs · 94 configs
|
$1.42 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.39 /GPU/hr On-demand | 72% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
L40S
4 configs · 25 configs
|
$1.22 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.54 /GPU/hr On-demand | 56% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
GB300
1 config
|
-- On request | -- | Gcore only |
|
B200
8 configs
|
-- | $5.94 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
98 configs
|
-- | $0.34 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 5090
176 configs
|
-- | $0.27 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 4090
167 configs
|
-- | $0.20 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
Gcore 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.
| 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
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Our data for Gcore was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Oct. 2, 2026.