What's good about...
Paperspace
- Competitive GPU prices
- Managed platform, from notebooks to container-based clusters
- Free ingress and egress
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 Paperspace's prices compare against Vast.ai?
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Vast.ai Pricing Details
Vast.ai operates as a global marketplace where pricing is billed per second and broken into three components:
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Active rental cost for the GPU, charged only when an instance is running.
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Storage cost for allocated disk space, which applies as long as the instance exists (even when stopped).
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Bandwidth costs for data transfer.
GPU Fleet Overview
Starting Price
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Billing Options
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Available Models
Paperspace offers 12 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 57.
H100Heads 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 Paperspace and Vast.ai offer:
Company details
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| Website | paperspace.com | vast.ai |
| Headquarters | United States of America | United States of America |
| Founded | 2014 | 2018 |
| Data Center Locations | 3 | -- |
| Example Customers | Fast.ai, SciSpace, Tunebat, Spectrum Labs, Kando | IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch |
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Our data for Paperspace was last updated on Feb. 12, 2026, and for Vast.ai on June 23, 2026.