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Lyceum vs Vast.ai

Vast.ai sources GPUs from third-party hosts worldwide, which keeps prices low but means variable hardware quality and no EU data residency guarantees. Lyceum owns its infrastructure and operates exclusively in Europe with full sovereignty.

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What's good about...

Lyceum logo Lyceum

  • High-performance GPUs at competitive rates
  • EU-sovereign compute with GDPR compliance and EU data residency
  • Supports large-scale clusters up to 8,000 GPUs with InfiniBand
  • Docker-native with no vendor lock-in

Vast.ai logo Vast.ai

  • Large pool of over 20,000 GPUs
  • Over 68 GPU types across 40+ data centers
  • Enterprise-grade security with SOC2 certification
  • Pre-built templates including PyTorch, CUDA, and TensorFlow

Price comparison

How do Lyceum's prices compare against Vast.ai?

Block Storage

Closest config to 100+ GB SSD, 3,000+ IOPS, 100+ MB/s throughput, no snapshots.
Lyceum Lyceum
$10.00 / mo 100 GB · $0.10/GB/month
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Lyceum Lyceum
Free and unlimited
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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Vast.ai logo Vast.ai Pricing Details

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.

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

Cheapest rate per GPU per hour for the cards both providers sell, compared on a billing mode they both publish.

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Lyceum Lyceum
Vast.ai Vast.ai
H100 $2.79 $1.73 B300 $7.99 $7.50 B200 $6.49 $5.13 H200 $4.29 $3.30

Billing Options

Lyceum Lyceum
On-DemandSpotReservation
Vast.ai Vast.ai
On-DemandSpotReserved (6mo)

Available Models

Ranked by how many providers list each card. The number beside a GPU is how many instance configurations this provider sells it in, not how many are in stock.

Lyceum offers 6 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 62.

Lyceum Lyceum
H100(9) A100(9) H200(9) L40S(5) B200(9) B300(9)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
H100(20) A100(28) H200(14) RTX PRO 6000(12) L40S(7) B200(9) B300(4) V100(10) RTX A6000(6) RTX 4090(19)
View all 62 GPUs →

Heads up: We do our best to keep these specs & prices accurate. However, cloud costs may fluctuate based on region, usage, and other factors not listed here. These are estimates based on common setups and are for informational purposes only. Always verify current rates & exact specs with the provider before provisioning.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Lyceum and Vast.ai offer:

Service Lyceum Vast.ai
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Python Notebooks

Company details

Website
Lyceum Lyceum
lyceum.technology
Vast.ai Vast.ai
vast.ai
Headquarters
Lyceum Lyceum
Germany
Vast.ai Vast.ai
United States of America
Founded
Lyceum Lyceum
2025
Vast.ai Vast.ai
2018
Data Center Locations
Lyceum Lyceum
3
Vast.ai Vast.ai
10
Example Customers
Lyceum Lyceum
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Vast.ai Vast.ai
IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch

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Our data for Lyceum was last updated on Aug. 22, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Aug. 22, 2026.