Nova Cloud
vs
Vast.ai
Both rent RTX 5090 and RTX PRO 6000 GPUs with interruptible pricing. Nova Cloud runs its own datacenter in Western Canada, while Vast.ai lists a wider catalog from independent hosts who set their own rates.
What's good about each
- 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
- 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
GPUs
Nova Cloud offers 2 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 61. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Nova Cloud | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
RTX PRO 6000
20 configs · 102 configs
|
$1.56 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | $1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand | 27% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
RTX 5090
20 configs · 152 configs
|
$0.66 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | 39% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
H100
58 configs
|
-- | $0.42 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
B300
6 configs
|
-- | $4.88 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
B200
5 configs
|
-- | $5.01 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
H200
57 configs
|
-- | $1.32 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
A100
86 configs
|
-- | $0.17 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 4090
166 configs
|
-- | $0.20 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
L40S
42 configs
|
-- | $0.40 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 3090
76 configs
|
-- | $0.09 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
Nova Cloud bills on-demand, spot and reserved (1, 3 or 6 months); 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.
| Service | Nova Cloud | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| GPU-powered Servers | ||
| Managed Containers |
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Nova Cloud | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | -- | Type II, platform only |
| HIPAA | -- | Secure Cloud tier only |
| GDPR | -- | 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 | Nova Cloud | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2018 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | Canada | USA |
| Locations | 1 | 10 |
| Example customers | -- | IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch |
| Website | nova-cloud.ai | vast.ai |
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Our data for Nova Cloud was last updated on Sept. 26, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Sept. 26, 2026.