Crusoe Cloud alternatives
Every GPU compute provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Crusoe Cloud's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Crusoe Cloud's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- RunPodEntry paid plan: No plan tiers: a new account can start with as little as $10 in prepaid credits, and depl…
- PaperspaceEntry paid plan: Gradient Pro at $8.00/month on a personal workspace ($12.00/month on a team), billed $0.0…
- DeepInfraEntry paid plan: No minimum spend and no seat fees - billing is pay-per-token usage only, with no charge f…
- Novita AIEntry paid plan: No plan fee — credit is prepaid, and a manual top-up must be greater than $10.
- Nebius AI CloudEntry paid plan: No plan tiers: usage is paid as you go in USD, and the first payment has a $25 minimum.
- TensorDockEntry paid plan: No plan tiers: deposit funds from as little as $5, drawn down as servers run.
- LambdaEntry paid plan: Pay-as-you-go per GPU-hour rather than a monthly plan: the cheapest self-serve instance i…
- BasetenEntry paid plan: $0 per month on the Basic plan — pay as you go, with dedicated deployments, model APIs an…
- CoreWeavePricing model: Four CKS capacity plans - Flex Reservations, Reserved Instances, Spot Instances and On-De…
- Vast.aiEntry paid plan: $5 minimum deposit to add account credit before renting a GPU — there are no plan tiers,…
- HyperstackEntry paid plan: Prepaid credit rather than a plan: deploying a VM needs a balance covering at least one h…
- Fireworks AIPricing model: Three products on one bill. Serverless inference is per token, per model. Fine-tuning is…
Where Crusoe Cloud stands against these 12
Crusoe Cloud's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.
- Free tier
- No. 2 of the 7 alternatives that document it have one: Novita AI, Paperspace.
- Egress over allowance
- FreeJoint cheapest of the 7 that document it. Level with: CoreWeave — Free.
- Uptime SLA
- 99.5% monthly uptime per GPU-enabled VM, with service credits of 10%, 25% or 100% of that VM's monthly bill…Joint 2nd highest of the 3 that document it. Highest: Paperspace — 99.99% uptime SLA stated for network, power, virtual server and storage availability.
- H100 SXM, per GPU-hour
- $3.90 per GPU-hour on demand for NVIDIA H100 80GB HGX7th cheapest of the 12 that document it. Cheapest: DeepInfra — $2.20 per GPU-hour for a dedicated H100 80GB — below every dedicated cloud in this dataset.
- Cheapest GPU, per hour
- $1.50 per GPU-hour on demand for an NVIDIA L40S 48GB, which the VM docs list in 1-, 2-, 4-, 8- and 10-GPU…7th cheapest of the 8 that document it. Cheapest: Vast.ai — $0.02 per hour for a GTX 1660 S with 6GB, the floor from the cheapest host; its median is $0.05.
- Largest GPU offered
- 288GB per GPU on AMD MI355X, which is Contact sales with no on-demand priceJoint highest of the 12 that document it. Level with: Hyperstack — 288GB per GPU on B300 at $7.40 an hour; B200 at 192GB is $6.00.
A rank whose 80% interval overlaps its neighbour's is an ordering, not a finding; the intervals are on each provider's page and in /scores.json.