Theta EdgeCloud vs Vast.ai

Both rent GTX and RTX consumer cards and H200 GPUs from distributed hosts. Theta EdgeCloud sources managed instances from hyperscaler partners, while Vast.ai adds A100 to B200 datacenter cards, spot bidding and reserved contracts.

What's good about each

Theta EdgeCloud

Datacenter H200, V100 and T4 machines, 1-4 GPUs
Consumer cards from a community fleet, priced per operator
Sharable persistent volumes that survive a stop and restart
Multi-node GPU clusters for distributed training
Inference APIs, dedicated model serving and Jupyter notebooks on the same account

Vast.ai

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

Theta EdgeCloud offers 18 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 63. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU	Theta EdgeCloud	Vast.ai	Difference
H200 3 configs · 31 configs	$3.69 /GPU/hr On-demand	$2.57 /GPU/hr On-demand	30% cheaper on Vast.ai
RTX 5090 2 configs · 158 configs	$0.65 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.41 /GPU/hr On-demand	37% cheaper on Vast.ai
V100 2 configs · 26 configs	$0.99 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.08 /GPU/hr On-demand	92% cheaper on Vast.ai
RTX 5060 Ti 1 config · 81 configs	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.12 /GPU/hr On-demand	25% cheaper on Vast.ai
RTX 5080 1 config · 46 configs	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.22 /GPU/hr On-demand	33% cheaper on Vast.ai
T4 2 configs · 8 configs	$0.20 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.15 /GPU/hr On-demand	26% cheaper on Vast.ai
RTX 5070 1 config · 9 configs	$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.19 /GPU/hr On-demand	19% cheaper on Vast.ai
RTX 5070 Ti 1 config · 28 configs	$0.31 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand	48% cheaper on Vast.ai
RTX 4070 2 configs · 10 configs	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand	29% cheaper on Vast.ai
RTX 3080 1 config · 25 configs	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand	31% cheaper on Vast.ai

All 18 GPUs on Theta EdgeCloud All 63 GPUs on Vast.ai

Theta EdgeCloud bills on-demand; 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	Theta EdgeCloud	Vast.ai
GPU-powered Servers
Managed Containers

Compliance

Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.

Framework	Theta EdgeCloud	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	Theta EdgeCloud	Vast.ai
Founded	2024	2018
Headquarters	USA	USA
Locations	--	10
Example customers	KAIST, NTU Singapore, Houston Rockets	IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch
Website	www.thetaedgecloud.com	vast.ai

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Our data for Theta EdgeCloud was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Oct. 1, 2026.