Nova Cloud vs Theta EdgeCloud

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

Theta EdgeCloud

Datacenter H200, V100 and T4 machines, 1-4 GPUs
Consumer cards from a community fleet, priced per operator
Sharable persistent volumes that survive a stop and restart
Multi-node GPU clusters for distributed training
Inference APIs, dedicated model serving and Jupyter notebooks on the same account

GPUs

Nova Cloud offers 2 GPU models, while Theta EdgeCloud offers 18. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU	Nova Cloud	Theta EdgeCloud	Difference
RTX 5090 20 configs · 2 configs	$0.66 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand	Within 5%
RTX PRO 6000 20 configs	$0.30 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out	--	Nova Cloud only
H200 3 configs	--	$3.69 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only
V100 2 configs	--	$0.99 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 5060 Ti 1 config	--	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 5080 1 config	--	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only
T4 2 configs	--	$0.20 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 5070 1 config	--	$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 5070 Ti 1 config	--	$0.31 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 4070 2 configs	--	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand	Theta EdgeCloud only

All 2 GPUs on Nova Cloud All 18 GPUs on Theta EdgeCloud

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

Lium

Built for agents: CLI, SDK and MCP server. Your agent rents and runs GPUs itself.

A permissionless marketplace. 1000+ nodes from independent providers worldwide.

Hard to find nodes available; B200 and B300 Blackwell nodes listed now.

Consumer + DC grade cards for cheap. H100s from $1/hr, RTX 5090s from $0.35/hr.

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Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Service	Nova Cloud	Theta EdgeCloud
GPU-powered Servers

Company details

Fact	Nova Cloud	Theta EdgeCloud
Founded	2018	2024
Headquarters	Canada	USA
Locations	1	--
Example customers	--	KAIST, NTU Singapore, Houston Rockets
Website	nova-cloud.ai	www.thetaedgecloud.com

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Our data for Nova Cloud was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Theta EdgeCloud on Oct. 1, 2026.