What's good about...
Gcore
- Competitive pricing with pay-as-you-go model
- Over 210 global PoPs across six continents
- Free DDoS protection, WAF, and egress traffic
- Offers NVIDIA GPUs such as A100, H100, and L40S
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
- Host reliability ratings and GPU performance benchmarks
- REST API, CLI, Python SDK and coding agent plugins
Price comparison
How do Gcore's prices compare against Vast.ai?
VM Small
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VM Medium
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VM Large
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Object Storage
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Load Balancer
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Serverless 25M Executions
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance
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Vast.ai Pricing Details
Hosts set their own rates. Compute is billed per second from prepaid credits. Storage charges continue while an instance is stopped, and bandwidth fees vary by host.
- On-demand: Fixed rates for the offer's maximum duration.
- Interruptible: Bid for capacity. Instances pause if you're outbid or an on-demand renter takes the machine.
- Reserved: Prepay for a fixed term, with larger discounts for longer commitments.
GPU Fleet Overview
Same GPU, Both Providers
On-demand price per GPU-hour.
Billing Options
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Available Models
Gcore offers 6 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 11.
Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
Which services do they offer
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Our data for Gcore was last updated on Aug. 31, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Sept. 11, 2026.