What's good about...
Hot Aisle
- Simple, competitive pricing at $2.99/GPU/h
- Self-serve platform with bare metal access
- SOC2 Type 2 and HIPAA compliant
- Hosted in a Tier 5 facility 100% powered by renewable energy
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
Hot Aisle Pricing
Hot Aisle offers three tiers: Small (1x MI300X), Medium (2-4x MI300X), and Large (8x MI300X bare metal). VMs are priced at $2.99/GPU/hr, billed by the minute. The 8x bare metal tier is $3.39/GPU/hr with a one-month minimum commitment.
CPU cores scale with GPU count:
- Small (1x): 8 or 13 cores
- Medium (2x): 26 cores
- Medium (4x): 52 cores
- Large (8x): 64 or 102 cores
The full specs are available here.
Vast.ai Pricing
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
Billing Options
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Available Models
Hot Aisle offers 1 GPU model, while Vast.ai offers 61.
MI300X
H100Heads 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
Here are some managed services that Hot Aisle and Vast.ai offer:
Company details
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| Website | hotaisle.xyz | vast.ai |
| Headquarters |
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| Founded | 2023 | 2018 |
| Data Center Locations | 1 | 10 |
| Example Customers | -- | IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch |
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Our data for Hot Aisle was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Sept. 11, 2026.