Vast.ai
vs
Vultr
What's good about each
- 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
- 30+ locations across six continents
- Nvidia and AMD GPUs, as VMs or bare metal
- Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey and Kafka
- Outbound traffic allowance on every plan
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Vast.ai | Vultr | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $5.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $40.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $160.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-Optimized) | |
| Block storage | -- Not listed | $10.00 /mo 100 GB NVMe | |
| Object storage | -- Not listed | $18.00 /mo 1 TB | |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $60.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage | |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $15.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Valkey) | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | $10.00 /mo | |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | 0.5-15 TB / mo per instance | |
| Egress | -- Not listed | $10.00 /TB $0.01 / GB |
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
Vast.ai offers 61 GPU models, while Vultr offers 10. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Vast.ai | Vultr | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
47 configs · 1 config
|
$0.67 /GPU/hr Spot | $2.30 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out | 71% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
B200
8 configs · 1 config
|
$5.94 /GPU/hr Spot | $3.20 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out | 46% cheaper on Vultr |
|
A100
107 configs · 3 configs
|
$0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.40 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | 83% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
L40S
14 configs · 4 configs
|
$0.67 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.67 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | 60% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
A16
2 configs · 3 configs
|
$0.11 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.47 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | 77% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
RTX PRO 6000
105 configs
|
$0.34 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Vast.ai only |
|
H200
37 configs
|
$0.45 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 5090
179 configs
|
$0.27 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Vast.ai only |
MI355X
1 config
|
-- | $2.59 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out | Vultr only |
|
MI300X
1 config
|
-- | $1.85 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out | Vultr only |
Vast.ai bills on-demand, spot and reserved (1, 3, 6, 12, 24, 36 or 48 months); Vultr bills on-demand and spot. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Vast.ai | Vultr |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II, platform only | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | -- | Yes |
| HIPAA | Secure Cloud tier only | Yes |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | -- | Merchant |
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 | Vast.ai | Vultr |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2018 | 2014 |
| Headquarters | USA | USA |
| Locations | 10 | 33 |
| Example customers | IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch | Edgegap, 3XC, CloudQuant, WP Bolt, VirtualShield |
| Website | vast.ai | www.vultr.com |
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Our data for Vast.ai was last updated on Oct. 2, 2026, and for Vultr on Oct. 2, 2026.