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OVH vs Vast.ai

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What's good about...

OVHcloud logo OVH

  • Wide range of managed services and VPS configurations
  • Competitive prices, unlimited free egress
  • 10+ data center locations
  • European-based, may ease GDPR compliance requirements

Vast.ai logo Vast.ai

  • Large pool of over 20,000 GPUs
  • Over 68 GPU types across 40+ data centers
  • Enterprise-grade security with SOC2 certification
  • Pre-built templates including PyTorch, CUDA, and TensorFlow

Price comparison

How do OVH's prices compare against Vast.ai?

VM Small

Closest config to 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM.
OVHcloud OVH
$5.85 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (VPS-1)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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VM Medium

Closest config to 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM.
OVHcloud OVH
$10.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VPS-2)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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VM Large

Closest config to 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (dedicated preferred).
OVHcloud OVH
$27.50 / mo 8 vCPU, 24 GB RAM (VPS-4)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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Block Storage

Closest config to 100+ GB SSD, 3,000+ IOPS, 100+ MB/s throughput, no snapshots.
OVHcloud OVH
$9.50 / mo 100 GB (3000 IOPS)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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Object Storage

Closest config to 1 TB stored, 100 GB in / 250 GB out, 1M GET, 100k PUT/POST.
OVHcloud OVH
$10.75 / mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB read
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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Load Balancer

Closest config to TCP, 1 node (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM), 200+ Mbps, 1,000 conn/sec, 1 TB processed/mo.
OVHcloud OVH
$45.58 / mo Large 2 Gbps
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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Managed PostgreSQL

Closest config to 1 node, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50+ GB storage, 10 GB read / 5 GB write per month.
OVHcloud OVH
$51.26 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Essential DB1-4)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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Managed Redis®*

Closest config to 1 node, 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 10 req/s, 1 KB avg request size.
OVHcloud OVH
$44.57 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Essential DB1-4)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

OVHcloud OVH
Free and unlimited Reduced bandwidth may apply
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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Vast.ai logo Vast.ai Pricing Details

Vast.ai operates as a global marketplace where pricing is billed per second and broken into three components:

  1. Active rental cost for the GPU, charged only when an instance is running.

  2. Storage cost for allocated disk space, which applies as long as the instance exists (even when stopped).

  3. Bandwidth costs for data transfer.

GPU Fleet Overview

Starting Price

OVHcloud OVH
$0.60/hr
Vast.ai Vast.ai
$0.02/hr

Billing Options

OVHcloud OVH
On-Demand
Vast.ai Vast.ai
On-DemandSpotReserved (6mo)

Available Models

OVH offers 8 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 56.

OVHcloud OVH
H100(3) A100(3) L40S(3) V100(3) L4(3) A10(3) RTX 5000(3) V100S(3)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
H100(64) A100(116) H200(38) B200(18) RTX Pro 6000(156) V100(26) RTX A6000(20) L4(16) RTX 4090(294) B300(4)
View all 56 GPUs

Heads up: We do our best to keep these specs & prices accurate. However, cloud costs may fluctuate based on region, usage, and other factors not listed here. These are estimates based on common setups and are for informational purposes only. Always verify current rates & exact specs with the provider before provisioning.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that OVH and Vast.ai offer:

Service OVH Vast.ai
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
OVHcloud OVH
www.ovhcloud.com
Vast.ai Vast.ai
vast.ai
Headquarters
OVHcloud OVH
France
Vast.ai Vast.ai
United States of America
Founded
OVHcloud OVH
1999
Vast.ai Vast.ai
2018
Data Center Locations
OVHcloud OVH
19
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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Example Customers
OVHcloud OVH
Société Générale, Louis Vuitton, Capgemini, Tenesys
Vast.ai Vast.ai
IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch

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Our data for OVH was last updated on June 11, 2026, and for Vast.ai on June 23, 2026.