Theta EdgeCloud vs Zenlayer

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

Zenlayer

350+ Points of Presence across 50+ countries with focus on emerging markets
Flexible quarterly billing for GPUs (no 2-3 year lock-in)
Strong presence in Southeast Asia, India, China, South America
Competitive GPU pricing

Price comparison

Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.

Service	Theta EdgeCloud	Zenlayer
Small VM	-- Not listed	$11.50 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
Medium VM	-- Not listed	$52.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM
Large VM	-- Not listed	$104.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM
Block storage	-- Not listed	$8.00 /mo 100 GB volume
Load balancer	-- Not listed	$32.70 /mo 1 TB estimated usage
Egress	-- Not listed	$4.50 /TB Estimated cost to transfer 1 TB per month

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

Theta EdgeCloud offers 11 GPU models, while Zenlayer offers 1. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU	Theta EdgeCloud	Zenlayer	Difference
T4 2 configs · 2 configs	$0.20 /GPU/hr On-demand	$0.56 /GPU/hr On-demand	64% cheaper on Theta EdgeCloud
H200 3 configs	$3.69 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Theta EdgeCloud only
V100 2 configs	$0.99 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 5060 Ti 1 config	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 5080 1 config	$0.33 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 5070 1 config	$0.23 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 4070 1 config	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 3080 1 config	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 4060 Ti 1 config	$0.17 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 4060 1 config	$0.12 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Theta EdgeCloud only

All 11 GPUs on Theta EdgeCloud All 1 GPU on Zenlayer

Theta EdgeCloud bills on-demand; Zenlayer bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.

Lium

Built for agents: CLI, SDK and MCP server. Your agent rents and runs GPUs itself.

A permissionless marketplace. 1000+ nodes from independent providers worldwide.

Hard to find nodes available; B200 and B300 Blackwell nodes listed now.

Consumer + DC grade cards for cheap. H100s from $1/hr, RTX 5090s from $0.35/hr.

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Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Service	Theta EdgeCloud	Zenlayer
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Compliance

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

Framework	Theta EdgeCloud	Zenlayer
SOC 2	--	Yes
ISO 27001	--	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	Zenlayer
Founded	2024	--
Headquarters	USA	USA
Locations	--	22
Example customers	KAIST, NTU Singapore, Houston Rockets	--
Website	www.thetaedgecloud.com	cloud.zenlayer.com

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Our data for Theta EdgeCloud was last updated on Oct. 2, 2026, and for Zenlayer on Oct. 1, 2026.