Oracle Cloud
vs
Vast.ai
What's good about each
- 10 TB of free egress each month
- Same compute and storage prices in every region
- Flexible shapes with CPU and memory sized separately
- Oracle Database inside AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
- Always Free tier with Arm VMs and databases
- 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 | Oracle Cloud | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $3.33 /mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex, 12.5% burstable) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $44.64 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $89.28 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex) | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $4.25 /mo 100 GB (Balanced) | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $26.49 /mo 1 TB | -- Not listed | |
| PostgreSQL | $119.65 /mo 2 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (PostgreSQL.VM.Standard.E5.Flex) | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | $27.94 /mo 2 GB RAM (OCI Cache, Valkey) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | Free Network Load Balancer | -- Not listed | |
| Serverless | $31.57 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | -- Not listed | |
| Egress allowance | 10 TB / mo | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | $8.50 /TB $0.0085 / GB (North America, Europe) | -- 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
Oracle Cloud offers 15 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 64. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Oracle Cloud | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
1 config · 68 configs
|
$10.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.73 /GPU/hr On-demand | 83% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
B300
1 config · 6 configs
|
$15.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | $9.94 /GPU/hr On-demand | 34% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
B200
1 config · 5 configs
|
$14.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | $6.25 /GPU/hr On-demand | 55% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
RTX PRO 6000
1 config · 89 configs
|
$4.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.07 /GPU/hr On-demand | 76% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
H200
1 config · 28 configs
|
$10.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.56 /GPU/hr On-demand | 64% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
A100
2 configs · 113 configs
|
$3.05 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.34 /GPU/hr On-demand | 89% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
L40S
1 config · 34 configs
|
$3.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.53 /GPU/hr On-demand | 85% cheaper on Vast.ai |
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V100
4 configs · 29 configs
|
$2.95 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.12 /GPU/hr On-demand | 96% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
A10
3 configs · 1 config
|
$2.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand | 88% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
P100
2 configs · 4 configs
|
$1.27 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.10 /GPU/hr On-demand | 93% cheaper on Vast.ai |
Oracle Cloud bills on-demand; 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 | Oracle Cloud | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Yes | Type II, platform only |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | -- |
| HIPAA | Yes | Secure Cloud tier only |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | Yes | -- |
| FedRAMP | High, US Government Cloud | -- |
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 | Oracle Cloud | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2016 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 45 | 10 |
| Example customers | Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia | IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch |
| Website | www.oracle.com | vast.ai |
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Our data for Oracle Cloud was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Oct. 2, 2026.