TheAI Cloud
vs
Vast.ai
What's good about each
- Bare metal nodes with root access, no virtualization
- Reserved terms from 1 to 24 months
- 400G InfiniBand per GPU on B300 nodes
- 3TB DDR5 per node, up to 32TB local NVMe
- 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
GPUs
TheAI Cloud offers 2 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 65. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | TheAI Cloud | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
B300
5 configs · 4 configs
|
$5.30 /GPU/hr Reserved (24 mo) | $5.20 /GPU/hr Spot | Different terms |
|
B200
5 configs · 8 configs
|
$4.50 /GPU/hr Reserved (24 mo) | $5.94 /GPU/hr Spot | Different terms |
|
H100
36 configs
|
-- | $0.66 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
H200
47 configs
|
-- | $0.47 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
88 configs
|
-- | $0.27 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 5090
164 configs
|
-- | $0.20 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
A100
70 configs
|
-- | $0.18 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 4090
154 configs
|
-- | $0.20 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
L40S
39 configs
|
-- | $0.34 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 3090
98 configs
|
-- | $0.05 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
TheAI Cloud bills reserved (1, 3, 6, 12 or 24 months); 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.
| Service | TheAI Cloud | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| GPU-powered Servers | ||
| Managed Containers |
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | TheAI Cloud | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | -- | Type II, platform only |
| HIPAA | -- | Secure Cloud tier only |
| GDPR | -- | Yes |
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 | TheAI Cloud | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | -- | 2018 |
| Headquarters | UAE | USA |
| Locations | 1 | 10 |
| Example customers | -- | IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch |
| Website | cloud.theai.com | vast.ai |
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Our data for TheAI Cloud was last updated on Oct. 2, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Oct. 2, 2026.