Hyperbolic
vs
Vast.ai
Both rent H100 to B200 GPUs from other people's hardware. Hyperbolic curates partner capacity into a weekly rate card with serverless inference, while Vast.ai runs a live marketplace where hosts set prices per second.
What's good about each
- Single GPU to 1,000+ GPU clusters, InfiniBand up to 3.2 Tb/s
- Virtual machine or bare metal, both with root SSH access
- 99.5% uptime SLA, with self-serve reservations from one week
- OpenAI-compatible inference API
- 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
GPUs
Vast.ai offers 56 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Hyperbolic. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Hyperbolic | Vast.ai | Difference |
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-- | $1.34 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
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-- | $7.50 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
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-- | $6.10 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo) | Vast.ai only |
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-- | $0.27 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
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-- | $1.32 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
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-- | $0.27 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
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-- | $0.24 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
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-- | $0.17 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
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-- | $0.47 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
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-- | $0.10 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
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.
| Service | Hyperbolic | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Block Storage | ||
| GPU-powered Servers | ||
| Managed Containers | ||
| Serverless Functions |
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Hyperbolic | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Yes | Type II, platform only |
| HIPAA | -- | Secure Cloud tier only |
| GDPR | -- | 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 | Hyperbolic | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2022 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | -- | 10 |
| Example customers | -- | IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch |
| Website | www.hyperbolic.ai | vast.ai |
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Our data for Hyperbolic was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Sept. 23, 2026.