RunPod and Vast.ai are compared on company location, European datacenter regions, free tier and US CLOUD Act exposure. RunPod is based in United States. Vast.ai is based in United States. Neither offers a free tier. Pricing appears only after a person has reviewed it, and no ordering here is paid for.
RunPod
RunPod rents GPU instances by the second in both a community cloud of third-party hosts and a secure first-party cloud, alongside a serverless endpoint product for inference. The community tier is materially cheaper and correspondingly less predictable in availability.
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Vast.ai is a marketplace where independent hosts rent out GPU capacity, with prices set by supply and demand and typically the lowest available for a given card. Reliability and data handling vary by host, which is the trade-off for the price.
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