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Render vs Vast.ai

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What's good about...

Render logo Render

  • Offers managed services from caches to databases to cron jobs to background workers
  • Managed PostgreSQL supports point-in-time recovery and high availability
  • Flat workspace fee with unlimited team members, no per-seat billing
  • Free tier covers web services, Postgres and Key Value

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 Render's prices compare against Vast.ai?

VM Small

Render Render
$25.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Web Service)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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VM Medium

Render Render
$175.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Web Service)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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VM Large

Render Render
$450.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (Web Service)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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Block Storage

Render Render
$25.00 / mo 100 GB
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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Load Balancer

Render Render
Included in plan
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Managed PostgreSQL

Render Render
$90.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (Basic-4gb) · $75 instance + 50 GB storage at $0.30 / GB
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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Managed Redis®*

Render Render
$32.00 / mo 1 GB RAM (Key Value Standard)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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Free egress allowance

Render Render
5 GB (Hobby), 25 GB (Pro), 1 TB (Scale)
Vast.ai Vast.ai
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Render Render
$150.00 $0.15 / GB
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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

Billing Options

Render Render
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Vast.ai Vast.ai
On-DemandSpotReserved (1mo)Reserved (3mo)Reserved (6mo)Reserved (12mo)Reserved (24mo)Reserved (36mo)Reserved (48mo)

Available Models

Vast.ai offers 61 GPU models.

Render Render
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Vast.ai Vast.ai
H100(45) A100(94) H200(39) RTX PRO 6000(76) L40S(11) B200(10) B300(4) V100(31) L4(13) RTX 5090(144)
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Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Which services do they offer

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

Service Render Vast.ai
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Serverless Cron Jobs
Static Sites

Company details

Website
Render Render
render.com
Vast.ai Vast.ai
vast.ai
Headquarters
Render Render
United States of America US flag
Vast.ai Vast.ai
United States of America US flag
Founded
Render Render
2018
Vast.ai Vast.ai
2018
Data Center Locations
Render Render
4
Vast.ai Vast.ai
10
Example Customers
Render Render
Red Bull, Watershed, Equals, Felt
Vast.ai Vast.ai
IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch

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Our data for Render was last updated on July 27, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Sept. 8, 2026.