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Vast.ai pricing and limits

iScore48–61 · ≈#12/13
vast.ai · GPU compute
OCT 2026 audit

GPU marketplace where independent hosts set prices, published as live floor and median rates across 40+ data centres.

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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.
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.
Free tierNo
CategoryGPU compute

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 20 criteria compared

Vast.ai pricing at a glance

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 source ↗
Pricing model
A marketplace rather than a cloud: prices are set by supply and demand across more than 40 data centers, in on-demand, interruptible and… source ↗

First line of each sourced value. The full text is in Vast.ai pricing below.

Vast.ai plans and prices

On-demand GPU pricesLive marketplace figures read from Vast.ai's pricing page on 2026-10-23, in USD per hour for one GPU of each model. Independent hosts set these prices and the page updates them hourly, so they will have moved since. The price column is the page's "from" figure, the lowest currently available offer; the median across current offers is shown alongside. Cards the page marks as having no current offers, with only an indicative recent-market price, are left out. Interruptible instances run cheaper and reserved terms are quoted by sales; neither is shown.
GPUVRAMPrice (from)Median
B300288GBfrom $5.90/hrmedian $9.94/hr
B200192GBfrom $7.50/hrmedian $9.38/hr
H200141GBfrom $4.42/hrmedian $4.87/hr
H200 NVL141GBfrom $3.63/hrmedian $4.00/hr
H100 SXM80GBfrom $1.73/hrmedian $2.40/hr
H100 NVL80GBfrom $2.33/hrmedian $2.94/hr
A100 SXM480GBfrom $0.40/hrmedian $0.86/hr
A100 PCIE80GBfrom $0.34/hrmedian $0.93/hr
L40S48GBfrom $0.43/hrmedian $0.64/hr
RTX PRO 6000 WS96GBfrom $1.00/hrmedian $1.60/hr
RTX 6000Ada48GBfrom $0.40/hrmedian $0.70/hr
RTX 509032GBfrom $0.39/hrmedian $0.74/hr
RTX 409024GBfrom $0.13/hrmedian $0.58/hr
RTX 309024GBfrom $0.12/hrmedian $0.21/hr

GPU Pricing — Live Platform Rates | Vast.ai · read · every row quoted from this page

01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

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.

Consider something else if…

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.

Editorial · Palash Bagchi · approved

Machine-derived signals

Not sourced facts — counts and matches read by a script, not a person. See each line for where it comes from.

Vast.ai's own site (vast.ai) self-detects as: hosting — Cloud Hosting, Cloud PaaS, US hosting, Indian hosting, Server Location · CDN — Edge Delivery Network · DNS — Enterprise DNS (category-level via BuiltWith, not a named vendor)

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Vast.ai pricing

5 criteria
Free tierNo
Sources (1) →
Kind of free offerNo free offer
Sources (1) →
Credit card to startYes
Sources (1) →
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.
Sources (1) →
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.
Sources (1) →

Infrastructure

1 criteria
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.
Sources (1) →

GPU

5 criteria
H100 SXM, per GPU-hourMedian $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.
Sources (1) →
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.
Sources (1) →
  • GPU Pricing - Live Platform Rates | Vast.ai ↗

    “GTX TITAN X Maxwell 12GB VRAM from $0.03 /hr median $0.04/hr [...] RTX A2000 Ampere 6GB VRAM from $0.03 /hr median $0.06/hr [...] RTX 3060 Ampere 12GB VRAM from $0.03 /hr median $0.07/hr [...] Tesla P100 Pascal 16GB VRAM from $0.03 /hr median $0.09/hr”

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

Largest GPU offered288GB 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.
Sources (1) →
Billing granularityPer-second billing on GPU rentals: charged down to the second, with no minimum hours and no rounding up.
Sources (1) →
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.
Sources (1) →

Compliance

9 criteria
SOC 2SOC 2 Type 2 certification completed, audited by an independent third party against AICPA Trust Services Criteria; report available under a signed NDA.
Sources (1) →
  • 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

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.
Sources (1) →
  • 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

HIPAAHIPAA-covered workloads are supported on the Secure Cloud tier; Business Associate Agreements are available for qualifying customers.
Sources (1) →
  • 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

GDPR / data residencyStandard 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.
Sources (1) →
  • 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

PCI DSSNamed only in the list of certifications Secure Cloud datacenter partners may hold, alongside HIPAA and HITRUST. Partner-held certification, not a platform certification claim.
Sources (1) →
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.
Sources (1) →
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.
Sources (1) →
Private networking / VPCOverlay networks give instances on the same physical cluster a private virtual LAN separate from the host network and other tenants; Docker templates only.
Sources (1) →
Dedicated infrastructureThe Clusters product provides dedicated environments scaling from tens to hundreds of GPUs or CPUs, with custom networking and storage configurations.
Sources (1) →
  • GPU Clusters | Vast.ai ↗

    “Our dedicated environments ensure reliable throughput and flexible resource allocations [...] Seamlessly scale from tens to hundreds of GPUs or CPUs [...] Get exactly the CPU/GPU mix you need, plus custom networking and storage configurations”

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

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Vast.ai pricing questions

How much does Vast.ai cost?

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

Sign up and rent your first GPU - Vast.ai Documentation: Affordable GPU Cloud Marketplace · read

How does Vast.ai charge?

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.

GPU Pricing — Live Platform Rates | Vast.ai · read

Does Vast.ai have a free tier?

No.

Billing - Vast.ai Documentation: Affordable GPU Cloud Marketplace · read

Do you need a credit card to start on Vast.ai?

Yes.

Billing - Vast.ai Documentation: Affordable GPU Cloud Marketplace · read

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