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 58. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | TheAI Cloud | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
B300
5 configs · 2 configs
|
$4.90 /GPU/hr Reserved (24 mo) | $11.25 /GPU/hr Spot | 2.3x more expensive on Vast.ai |
|
H200
3 configs · 61 configs
|
$3.70 /GPU/hr Reserved (3 mo) | $3.55 /GPU/hr Reserved (3 mo) | Within 5% |
|
H100
48 configs
|
-- | $0.02 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
B200
9 configs
|
-- | $4.51 /GPU/hr Reserved (1 mo) | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
66 configs
|
-- | $0.40 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 5090
153 configs
|
-- | $0.12 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
A100
52 configs
|
-- | $0.29 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 4090
125 configs
|
-- | $0.13 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
L40S
8 configs
|
-- | $0.53 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 3090
70 configs
|
-- | $0.07 /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 |
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 Sept. 12, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Sept. 12, 2026.