Thalassa Cloud
vs
Vast.ai
What's good about each
- European cloud with data residency in the Netherlands
- Full Terraform support and API-first platform
- Billed by the minute, with monthly invoicing in Euro
- Direct engineer support in Dutch and English
- 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 | Thalassa Cloud | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $9.44 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $126.03 /mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $256.39 /mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $20.53 /mo 100 GB NVMe | -- Not listed | |
| PostgreSQL | $25.46 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (db-pgp.medium) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $17.19 /mo HA Network Load Balancer | -- 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
Vast.ai offers 16 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Thalassa Cloud. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Thalassa Cloud | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
32 configs
|
-- | $0.24 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
B300
6 configs
|
-- | $6.94 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
B200
8 configs
|
-- | $5.01 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
H200
20 configs
|
-- | $1.32 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
7 configs
|
-- | $0.40 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 5090
18 configs
|
-- | $0.67 /GPU/hr Reserved (6 mo) | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 4090
9 configs
|
-- | $0.27 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 3090
7 configs
|
-- | $0.13 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
V100
3 configs
|
-- | $0.15 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo) | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 5080
2 configs
|
-- | $16.00 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
Vast.ai bills on-demand, spot and reserved (1, 3, 6 or 12 months). The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Company details
| Fact | Thalassa Cloud | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2024 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | Netherlands | USA |
| Locations | 1 | 10 |
| Example customers | ContainerInfra, RepliKate, Balean, BrainHive, BaseTide | IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch |
| Website | thalassa.cloud | vast.ai |
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Our data for Thalassa Cloud was last updated on Feb. 12, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Sept. 11, 2026.