Vast.ai
GPU marketplace with on-demand, interruptible and reserved rentals
What's good about 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
- REST API, CLI, Python SDK and coding agent plugins
Pricing & billing
Hosts set their own rates. Compute is billed per second from prepaid credits. Storage charges continue while an instance is stopped, and bandwidth fees vary by host.
- On-demand: Fixed rates for the offer's maximum duration.
- Interruptible: Bid for capacity. Instances pause if you're outbid or an on-demand renter takes the machine.
- Reserved: Prepay for a fixed term, with larger discounts for longer commitments.
About Vast.ai
Vast.ai lets you rent GPUs from individuals and datacenters through a single marketplace, with everything from consumer cards to Nvidia Blackwell. Compare offers by GPU, price, location, reliability and benchmark score, then choose on-demand, interruptible or reserved capacity to run a Docker container or virtual machine.
You can also filter for vetted datacenter hosts with Secure Cloud or use serverless endpoints to scale workers automatically.
Example customers include IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch.
Services
Vast.ai offers 2 of the 27 services we track.
| Service | Provider page |
|---|---|
| GPU-powered Servers | On Vast.ai |
| Managed Containers | On Vast.ai |
Compliance
Vast.ai covers 3 of the 6 compliance frameworks we track.
| Framework | Level | Checked | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 Type II, platform only | Type II, platform only | vast.ai | |
| HIPAA Secure Cloud tier only | Secure Cloud tier only | vast.ai | |
| GDPR | vast.ai |
Heads up: Each row links to the provider's own statement, checked on the date shown. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it.
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Our data for Vast.ai was last updated on Oct. 15, 2026.