Hikube
vs
Vast.ai
What's good about each
- Storage replicated across datacenters in Geneva, Gland and Lucerne
- H100, H200 and A100 GPUs on VMs or Kubernetes
- Managed Postgres, Redis, ClickHouse, Kafka and RabbitMQ
- ISO 27001 certified company and datacenters
- 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 | Hikube | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $28.89 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (s1.small) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $115.55 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (s1.large) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $231.10 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (s1.xlarge) | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $21.97 /mo 100 GB | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $24.41 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress | -- Not listed | |
| PostgreSQL | $59.13 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB (large) | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | $24.08 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (medium) | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | Free and unlimited | -- 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
Hikube offers 6 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 60. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Hikube | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
1 config · 10 configs
|
$3.88 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.73 /GPU/hr On-demand | 55% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
RTX PRO 6000
1 config · 39 configs
|
$3.13 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.32 /GPU/hr On-demand | 58% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
A100
1 config · 36 configs
|
$3.03 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | 87% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
L40S
1 config · 4 configs
|
$1.81 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | 56% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
L4
1 config · 18 configs
|
$0.81 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.32 /GPU/hr On-demand | 60% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
H200
1 config
|
$4.71 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Hikube only |
|
B300
2 configs
|
-- | $11.27 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo) | Vast.ai only |
|
B200
4 configs
|
-- | $7.13 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 5090
184 configs
|
-- | $0.29 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 4090
106 configs
|
-- | $0.26 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
Hikube 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 | Hikube | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | -- | Type II, platform only |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | -- |
| HIPAA | -- | Secure Cloud tier only |
| GDPR | Yes | 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 | Hikube | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2016 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | Switzerland | USA |
| Locations | 3 | 10 |
| Example customers | -- | IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch |
| Website | hikube.cloud | vast.ai |
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Our data for Hikube was last updated on Sept. 22, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Sept. 23, 2026.