Lyceum
vs
Vast.ai
Lyceum rents A100 to B200 GPUs per second from its own EU datacenters, while Vast.ai is a marketplace of independent hosts who set their own rates.
What's good about each
- Data center cards from L40S to Blackwell B300, 1 to 8 per VM
- European datacenters, and prompts and outputs are not stored
- Per-second billing on compute, per-token on inference
- OpenAI-compatible API that plugs into coding agents
- 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
- REST API, CLI, Python SDK and coding agent plugins
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Lyceum | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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
Lyceum offers 7 GPU models. We don't currently list GPU prices for Vast.ai.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
| Service | Lyceum | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| GPU-powered Servers | ||
| Managed Containers | ||
| Object Storage | ||
| Python Notebooks |
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Lyceum | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | -- | Type II, platform only |
| 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 | Lyceum | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2025 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | Germany | USA |
| Locations | 2 | -- |
| Example customers | Enpal, Apheris, Edgeless Systems, Macrocosmos, SONA | IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch |
| Website | lyceum.technology | vast.ai |
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Our data for Lyceum was last updated on Oct. 23, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Oct. 15, 2026.