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Vast.ai vs Hyperstack

OCT 2026 audit

A comparison of Vast.ai and Hyperstack built from values read directly from each provider's own documentation, with the source recorded against every figure.

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 21 criteria compared

The short answer

Choose Vast.ai if…

Price-sensitive training and batch inference that can tolerate a marketplace — the median H100 SXM rate sits below what every managed cloud here lists for the same card, and interruptible capacity goes lower still.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Choose Hyperstack if…

Steady European workloads that can commit — reserved H200 at $2.79 against $3.99 on demand is the clearest published discount in this set, and egress is free.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Consider something else if…

  • Vast.ai: There is no single price to plan against: rates move with supply, the host is not Vast itself, and an interruptible instance can be reclaimed mid-run.
  • Hyperstack: Billing is per minute rather than per second, so very short jobs round up in a way they do not at RunPod.

Neither quite fits? Every other option, ranked by iScore: Hyperstack alternatives

16 sourced criteria separate them — see where, with sources, below.

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01.

At a glance.

CriterionVast.aiHyperstack
Pricing
Free tierNoNo — No free plan published; prepaid accounts must hold a positive balance to create or keep resources.
Kind of free offerNo free offerNo free offer
Credit card to startYesYes
Entry paid plan$5 minimum deposit to add account credit before renting a GPU — there are no plan tiers, only prepaid credit drawn down by usage.Prepaid credit rather than a plan: deploying a VM needs a balance covering at least one hour of combined hourly cost - their worked example is $10.00.
Pricing modelA marketplace rather than a cloud: prices are set by supply and demand across more than 40 data centers, in on-demand, interruptible and reserved tiers.Pay-as-you-go at hourly rates billed per minute; prepaid credit by default, with postpaid accounts billed at a fixed interval, typically monthly.
Infrastructure
RegionsOn-demand instances span 40+ data centers with 20,000+ GPUs listed across the marketplace. Marketplace of third-party hosts; no named region list is published, offers are filtered by country code.Three documented regions: NORWAY-1 (Vestland, Norway), CANADA-1 (Quebec, Canada) and US-1 (Texas, United States); more may appear per account.
GPU
H100 SXM, per GPU-hour
Median $2.40 per hour for H100 SXM 80GB, with a floor of $1.73 from the cheapest host. Vast is a marketplace — the floor is one host's offer at one moment and the median is what the market is actually charging, so both move without anyone announcing anything. This figure is a snapshot, not a rate card.
$3.20 per hour for H100 SXM 80GB on demand. The H100 NVLink is $2.60, and the row the page lists as plain "NVIDIA H100" is $2.50.
Cheapest GPU, per hour
$0.03 per hour, the floor from the cheapest host, shared by 4 cards: GTX TITAN X 12GB (median $0.04), RTX A2000 6GB (median $0.06), RTX 3060 12GB (median $0.07) and Tesla P100 16GB (median $0.09). The lowest median on the page is $0.04, for the GTX TITAN X.
$0.15 per hour for an A4000 with 16GB; the A100 SXM 80GB is $1.60.
Largest GPU offered
288GB per GPU on B300 Blackwell Ultra, from $9.93 an hour with a median of $9.93. B200 at 192GB is from $6.25 with a median of $9.13.
288GB per GPU on B300 at $7.40 an hour; B200 at 192GB is $6.00.
Billing granularityPer-second billing on GPU rentals: charged down to the second, with no minimum hours and no rounding up.Per minute, with enterprise-scale contracts negotiated separately.
Reserved pricingUp to 50% off by pre-paying for GPU time, the discount scaling with commitment length over 1, 3 or 6 month pre-paid periods.Published reserved rates rather than a percentage: H200 SXM falls from $3.99 on demand to $2.79 reserved, about 30% below.
Compliance
SOC 2SOC 2 Type 2 certification completed, audited by an independent third party against AICPA Trust Services Criteria; report available under a signed NDA.SOC 2 Type 2 attested, achieved via parent company NexGen Cloud; the same page shows SOC 2 Type 1 as certified.
ISO 27001Listed only among certifications Secure Cloud datacenter partners may hold; encouraged and strengthens a partner's application but not strictly required. Appears under Secure Cloud datacenter partner requirements, not under Vast.ai's own Certifications & Standards.Not certified: ISO 27001 sits on the upcoming-certifications list, shown as "ISO 20071" (sic) in progress.
HIPAA
HIPAA-covered workloads are supported on the Secure Cloud tier; Business Associate Agreements are available for qualifying customers.
Not yet: HIPAA is listed under "Coming Next", the security page's roster of upcoming certifications.
GDPR / data residency
Standard DPA bars storing or transferring Personal Data outside the EEA absent an adequacy decision unless appropriate guarantees apply; SCCs incorporated. Covers Personal Data under the DPA; no EU-only workload region is offered as a product option.
Regional data residency options across the UK, EU and other supported regions, with data centre regions in the EU, Canada and the US.
Encryption at restThe security FAQ puts this on the customer: for maximum security it advises encrypting sensitive data at rest and encrypting data before uploading.Not server-side for Object Storage: docs tell users who need encryption at rest to encrypt client-side. The Secure By Design page separately claims data is encrypted at rest and in transit.
Role-based access controlTeam roles assign permissions and access levels per member: Owner, Manager and Member defaults, plus custom roles built from read/write permission groups.Role-based access control: custom user roles built from policies and individual permissions; invited members start with none until a role is assigned.
Private networking / VPC
Overlay networks give instances on the same physical cluster a private virtual LAN separate from the host network and other tenants; Docker templates only.
Each environment is allocated its own private /24 subnet; every VM in it gets a private IP from that subnet and they share one network space.
Dedicated infrastructureThe Clusters product provides dedicated environments scaling from tens to hundreds of GPUs or CPUs, with custom networking and storage configurations.Secure Private Cloud: dedicated, single-tenant infrastructure with zero shared resources, running on dedicated hardware with no shared GPUs.

Only criteria both providers publish appear here; a tinted cell marks a real difference. Criteria only one of them documents are listed below, and an absence there means we found no source — not that the feature is missing. How we source this.

The small bar above a value is inetGeek's own lean toward that side — computed from the same facts shown, never a number the provider published. See the picker below "The short answer" to weigh only the criteria you care about.

02.

Where they differ.

Entry paid plan

Vast.ai
$5 minimum deposit to add account credit before renting a GPU — there are no plan tiers, only prepaid credit drawn down by usage.
Hyperstack
Prepaid credit rather than a plan: deploying a VM needs a balance covering at least one hour of combined hourly cost - their worked example is $10.00.
Sources (2) →

Pricing model

Vast.ai
A marketplace rather than a cloud: prices are set by supply and demand across more than 40 data centers, in on-demand, interruptible and reserved tiers.
Hyperstack
Pay-as-you-go at hourly rates billed per minute; prepaid credit by default, with postpaid accounts billed at a fixed interval, typically monthly.
Sources (2) →

Regions

Vast.ai
On-demand instances span 40+ data centers with 20,000+ GPUs listed across the marketplace. Marketplace of third-party hosts; no named region list is published, offers are filtered by country code.
Hyperstack
Three documented regions: NORWAY-1 (Vestland, Norway), CANADA-1 (Quebec, Canada) and US-1 (Texas, United States); more may appear per account.
Sources (2) →

H100 SXM, per GPU-hour

Vast.ai
Median $2.40 per hour for H100 SXM 80GB, with a floor of $1.73 from the cheapest host. Vast is a marketplace — the floor is one host's offer at one moment and the median is what the market is actually charging, so both move without anyone announcing anything. This figure is a snapshot, not a rate card.
Hyperstack
$3.20 per hour for H100 SXM 80GB on demand. The H100 NVLink is $2.60, and the row the page lists as plain "NVIDIA H100" is $2.50.
Sources (2) →

Cheapest GPU, per hour

Vast.ai
$0.03 per hour, the floor from the cheapest host, shared by 4 cards: GTX TITAN X 12GB (median $0.04), RTX A2000 6GB (median $0.06), RTX 3060 12GB (median $0.07) and Tesla P100 16GB (median $0.09). The lowest median on the page is $0.04, for the GTX TITAN X.
Hyperstack
$0.15 per hour for an A4000 with 16GB; the A100 SXM 80GB is $1.60.
Sources (2) →

Largest GPU offered

Vast.ai

288GB per GPU on B300 Blackwell Ultra, from $9.93 an hour with a median of $9.93. B200 at 192GB is from $6.25 with a median of $9.13.

Hyperstack

288GB per GPU on B300 at $7.40 an hour; B200 at 192GB is $6.00.

Sources (2) →

Billing granularity

Vast.ai
Per-second billing on GPU rentals: charged down to the second, with no minimum hours and no rounding up.
Hyperstack
Per minute, with enterprise-scale contracts negotiated separately.
Sources (2) →

Reserved pricing

Vast.ai
Up to 50% off by pre-paying for GPU time, the discount scaling with commitment length over 1, 3 or 6 month pre-paid periods.
Hyperstack
Published reserved rates rather than a percentage: H200 SXM falls from $3.99 on demand to $2.79 reserved, about 30% below.
Sources (2) →

SOC 2

Vast.ai
SOC 2 Type 2 certification completed, audited by an independent third party against AICPA Trust Services Criteria; report available under a signed NDA.
Hyperstack
SOC 2 Type 2 attested, achieved via parent company NexGen Cloud; the same page shows SOC 2 Type 1 as certified.
Sources (2) →
  • Compliance | Vast.ai ↗

    “Vast.ai has completed SOC 2 Type 2 certification. This audit, conducted by an independent third party, verified that our security, availability, and confidentiality controls meet AICPA Trust Services Criteria over a sustained observation period. The SOC 2 Type 2 report is available under a signed NDA”

    Read 2026-10-17 · official site · Report a correction

  • Secure By Design — Hyperstack ↗

    “We have achieved SOC 2 Type 2, an independent attestation of our security controls. [...] SOC 2 Type 2 achieved via NexGen Cloud, our parent company [...] SOC 2 Type I Certified SOC 2 Type II Attested”

    Read 2026-10-17 · official site · Report a correction

ISO 27001

Vast.ai
Listed only among certifications Secure Cloud datacenter partners may hold; encouraged and strengthens a partner's application but not strictly required. Appears under Secure Cloud datacenter partner requirements, not under Vast.ai's own Certifications & Standards.
Hyperstack
Not certified: ISO 27001 sits on the upcoming-certifications list, shown as "ISO 20071" (sic) in progress.
Sources (2) →
  • Compliance | Vast.ai ↗

    “Certifications held by datacenter partners may include: [...] ISO 27001, ISO 20000-1, ISO 22301, ISO 14001 [...] Security certifications such as ISO 27001 or SOC 2 are encouraged and strengthen a partner's application, but are not strictly required for certification.”

    Read 2026-10-17 · official site · Report a correction

  • Secure By Design — Hyperstack ↗

    “SOC 2 Type II Attested ISO 20071 In progress [...] ISO 27001 A globally recognised standard for information security management”

    Read 2026-10-17 · official site · Report a correction

HIPAA

Vast.ai
HIPAA-covered workloads are supported on the Secure Cloud tier; Business Associate Agreements are available for qualifying customers.
Hyperstack
Not yet: HIPAA is listed under "Coming Next", the security page's roster of upcoming certifications.
Sources (2) →
  • Compliance | Vast.ai ↗

    “Vast.ai supports HIPAA-covered workloads on our Secure Cloud tier. Technical safeguards — including data isolation, access controls, and audit logging — align with HIPAA requirements. Business Associate Agreements (BAAs) are available for qualifying customers.”

    Read 2026-10-17 · official site · Report a correction

  • Secure By Design — Hyperstack ↗

    “Coming Next Our upcoming certifications include: HIPAA A US healthcare standard for protecting sensitive patient data”

    Read 2026-10-17 · official site · Report a correction

GDPR / data residency

Vast.ai
Standard DPA bars storing or transferring Personal Data outside the EEA absent an adequacy decision unless appropriate guarantees apply; SCCs incorporated. Covers Personal Data under the DPA; no EU-only workload region is offered as a product option.
Hyperstack
Regional data residency options across the UK, EU and other supported regions, with data centre regions in the EU, Canada and the US.
Sources (2) →
  • Data Processing Agreement | Vast.ai ↗

    “Processor shall not export, transfer, store, remotely access Personal Data, or permit any of the latter in/from a country which is not part of the European Economic Area and does not benefit from an adequacy recognition decision of the European Commission pursuant to Article 45 of the GDPR [...] the Parties hereby agree to and incorporate the Standard Contractual Clauses into this Agreement”

    Read 2026-10-17 · official site · Report a correction

  • Secure By Design — Hyperstack ↗

    “Availability of data centre regions in the EU, Canada, and US [...] Regional Data Residency Options Choose where your data resides across the UK, EU and other supported regions.”

    Read 2026-10-17 · official site · Report a correction

Encryption at rest

Vast.ai
The security FAQ puts this on the customer: for maximum security it advises encrypting sensitive data at rest and encrypting data before uploading.
Hyperstack
Not server-side for Object Storage: docs tell users who need encryption at rest to encrypt client-side. The Secure By Design page separately claims data is encrypted at rest and in transit.
Sources (2) →

Role-based access control

Vast.ai
Team roles assign permissions and access levels per member: Owner, Manager and Member defaults, plus custom roles built from read/write permission groups.
Hyperstack
Role-based access control: custom user roles built from policies and individual permissions; invited members start with none until a role is assigned.
Sources (2) →

Private networking / VPC

Vast.ai
Overlay networks give instances on the same physical cluster a private virtual LAN separate from the host network and other tenants; Docker templates only.
Hyperstack
Each environment is allocated its own private /24 subnet; every VM in it gets a private IP from that subnet and they share one network space.
Sources (2) →

Dedicated infrastructure

Vast.ai
The Clusters product provides dedicated environments scaling from tens to hundreds of GPUs or CPUs, with custom networking and storage configurations.
Hyperstack
Secure Private Cloud: dedicated, single-tenant infrastructure with zero shared resources, running on dedicated hardware with no shared GPUs.
Sources (2) →

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03.

Documented by only one.

These criteria are published by one provider and not the other. An absence here means we have not found a source, not that the feature is missing — except where we say we read the other provider's own page on a given date and it does not state it. Those rows lean, and the provider can correct them with a link.

Egress over allowanceHyperstack: Free. Egress and ingress traffic are not charged; a public IP address costs $0.00672043 per hour.
PCI DSSVast.ai: Named only in the list of certifications Secure Cloud datacenter partners may hold, alongside HIPAA and HITRUST. Partner-held certification, not a platform certification claim.
04.

Questions this comparison answers.

Entry paid plan: Vast.ai or Hyperstack?

Vast.ai: $5 minimum deposit to add account credit before renting a GPU — there are no plan tiers, only prepaid credit drawn down by usage.

Hyperstack: Prepaid credit rather than a plan: deploying a VM needs a balance covering at least one hour of combined hourly cost - their worked example is $10.00.

Should I choose Vast.ai or Hyperstack?

Pick Vast.ai if Price-sensitive training and batch inference that can tolerate a marketplace — the median H100 SXM rate sits below what every managed cloud here lists for the same card, and interruptible capacity goes lower still.

Pick Hyperstack if Steady European workloads that can commit — reserved H200 at $2.79 against $3.99 on demand is the clearest published discount in this set, and egress is free.

Provider pages

Vast.aiGPU marketplace where independent hosts set prices, published as live floor and median rates across 40+ data centres.HyperstackEuropean GPU cloud billed per minute, with published reserved rates alongside on-demand and free egress.

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Comments

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