Hyperbolic vs Vast.ai

Hyperbolic sells GPU capacity three ways:

• On-Demand: billed hourly against prepaid credits, with the rate locked at instance creation.
• Reserved: terms from one week, paid up front, with longer terms priced lower.
• Private Cloud: dedicated clusters under a custom contract.

Storage volumes are billed hourly by provisioned size. On-demand rates are refreshed weekly to track supplier rates.

Vast.ai operates as a global marketplace where pricing is billed per second and broken into three components:

1. Active rental cost for the GPU, charged only when an instance is running.

2. Storage cost for allocated disk space, which applies as long as the instance exists (even when stopped).

3. Bandwidth costs for data transfer.