Nebius
vs
Vast.ai
Both rent H100 to B200 GPUs with spot pricing. Nebius adds B300 to GB300 nodes, managed Kubernetes, Postgres and object storage, while Vast.ai rents a wider catalog from independent hosts per second.
What's good about each
- Nvidia GPUs from L40S up to GB300 NVL72 racks
- Preemptible GPU instances at a lower hourly rate
- Managed Kubernetes and Slurm clusters at no extra charge
- Free outbound traffic from virtual machines
- Per-token inference API for open-weight models
- 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
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Nebius | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $35.71 /mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (cpu-d3) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $71.42 /mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (cpu-d3) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $142.85 /mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (cpu-d3) | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $7.10 /mo 100 GB (Network SSD) | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $19.42 /mo 1 TB (Standard) | -- Not listed | |
| PostgreSQL | $104.35 /mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (2vcpu-8gb) | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | Free from VMs, billed from Object Storage | -- 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
Nebius offers 8 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 61. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Nebius | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
1 config · 47 configs
|
$4.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.73 /GPU/hr On-demand | 61% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
B200
1 config · 8 configs
|
$8.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | $6.25 /GPU/hr On-demand | 26% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
RTX PRO 6000
1 config · 105 configs
|
$1.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.10 /GPU/hr On-demand | 39% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
H200
1 config · 37 configs
|
$5.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.56 /GPU/hr On-demand | 34% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
L40S
4 configs · 14 configs
|
$1.55 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.67 /GPU/hr On-demand | 57% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
B300
1 config
|
$9.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Nebius only |
|
GB200
1 config
|
-- On request | -- | Nebius only |
|
GB300
1 config
|
-- On request | -- | Nebius only |
|
RTX 5090
179 configs
|
-- | $0.27 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
A100
107 configs
|
-- | $0.23 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
Nebius bills on-demand and spot; 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.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Nebius | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Type II, platform only |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | -- |
| HIPAA | Yes | 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 | Nebius | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2022 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | Netherlands | USA |
| Locations | 10 | 10 |
| Example customers | Revolut, Sword Health, Brave, Voxel51, Recraft | IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch |
| Website | nebius.com | vast.ai |
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Our data for Nebius was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Oct. 2, 2026.