Nova Cloud
vs
Vast.ai
Nova Cloud rents RTX 5090 and RTX PRO 6000 VMs from its own Canadian datacenter, while Vast.ai is a marketplace of 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
- REST API, CLI, Python SDK and coding agent plugins
GPUs
Nova Cloud offers 2 GPU models. We don't currently list GPU prices for Vast.ai.
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 | -- |
| 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 Oct. 16, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Oct. 15, 2026.