Nova Cloud vs Spheron

What's good about each

Nova Cloud

Per-second billing with no contracts or minimum spend
Owned-and-operated datacenters in Western Canada
Reserved 1, 3, and 6 month terms for additional discounts
5 Gb/s network bandwidth with all ports available

Spheron

Aggregates GPU supply from five data center partners
Blackwell B200 and B300 nodes offered on spot
Partner facilities certified to ISO 27001, SOC 2, and HIPAA
Regions in the US, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East

GPUs

Nova Cloud offers 2 GPU models, while Spheron offers 8. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU	Nova Cloud	Spheron	Difference
RTX PRO 6000 20 configs · 4 configs	$1.56 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out	$2.35 /GPU/hr On-demand	34% cheaper on Nova Cloud
RTX 5090 20 configs	$0.30 /GPU/hr Spot	--	Nova Cloud only
H100 6 configs	--	$2.21 /GPU/hr Spot	Spheron only
B300 1 config	--	$5.85 /GPU/hr Spot	Spheron only
B200 2 configs	--	$5.37 /GPU/hr Spot	Spheron only
H200 3 configs	--	$3.31 /GPU/hr Spot	Spheron only
A100 2 configs	--	$1.20 /GPU/hr Spot	Spheron only
L40S 19 configs	--	$1.30 /GPU/hr Spot	Spheron only
L40 8 configs	--	$0.88 /GPU/hr Spot	Spheron only

All 2 GPUs on Nova Cloud All 8 GPUs on Spheron

Nova Cloud bills on-demand, spot and reserved (1, 3 or 6 months); Spheron bills on-demand and spot. The line under each price names the billing type shown.

Salad

Access 60,000+ daily active GPUs across 191 countries, from $0.02/hour

Run RTX 50-series and 40-series cards without datacenter pricing

Pick a priority level to balance cost against interruptions

Per-second billing, with no charge for cold starts or image pulls

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Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Service	Nova Cloud	Spheron
GPU-powered Servers

Company details

Fact	Nova Cloud	Spheron
Founded	2018	2020
Headquarters	Canada	Singapore
Locations	1	--
Example customers	--	Prem AI, Wafer, Compute Desk, Baseten, Stanford University, UC Berkeley
Website	nova-cloud.ai	www.spheron.ai

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Our data for Nova Cloud was last updated on Sept. 24, 2026, and for Spheron on Sept. 24, 2026.