GPUBank vs Crusoe
Crusoe is an AI infrastructure company founded in 2018 that builds its own data centers and power supply and rents NVIDIA and AMD GPU VMs through Crusoe Cloud. Its H100 SXM costs $3.90 per GPU-hour, sold only as 8-GPU nodes; GPUBank charges $1.85 and rents a single H100. Crusoe offers InfiniBand nodes, managed Kubernetes and SOC 2 and ISO reports; GPUBank costs less on every shared GPU and takes crypto.
GPUBank
Tallinn, Estonia
H100 SXM
$1.85 / h
- vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4 and traffic included
- Per-second billing after the health check
- Top up in Bitcoin, USDT and 12+ other coins
vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4 and traffic included
Crusoe
Denver, United States · since 2018
H100 SXM
$3.90 / h
- 3,200 Gb/s InfiniBand on 8-GPU H100, H200, B200 and MI300X nodes
- GB200 NVL72, B200 and MI355X listed, on contact-sales pricing
- SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 on its Trust Center
Crusoe
GPU cloud
United States25 points compared18 of their pages readprices last checked on 29 September 2026page updated 2 November 2026
The verdict
InfiniBand nodes and certifications at Crusoe. Lower prices and single-GPU rentals at GPUBank.
Crusoe is built for training teams that run 8-GPU InfiniBand nodes and sign reserved capacity contracts, with SOC 2 Type II and ISO 27001 reports. For the five GPUs both of us list, GPUBank costs 42 to 63 % less per GPU-hour. Both bill by the second, include egress and stop compute billing on a stopped VM; Crusoe keeps billing the 128 GB OS disk at $0.08 per GiB-month. Crusoe requires a non-prepaid credit card; GPUBank takes crypto and asks for no card.
CrusoeGPUBank 01The real cost
The same GPUs, side by side, per hour.
Every GPU model both of us rent, at each provider's own published price for one card, in US dollars, excluding VAT. Prices last checked on 29 September 2026.
| GPU | Crusoe per hour | GPUBank per hour | Difference | 100 h at Crusoe | 100 h at GPUBank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 H200 SXM141 GB |
$4.29 | $2.49 | −42 % | $429.00 | $249.00 |
 H100 SXM80 GB |
$3.90 | $1.85 | −53 % | $390.00 | $185.00 |
 A100 SXM80 GB |
$2.30 | $0.95 | −59 % | $230.00 | $95.00 |
 L40S48 GB |
$1.50 | $0.55 | −63 % | $150.00 | $55.00 |
 MI300X192 GB |
$3.45 | $1.65 | −52 % | $345.00 | $165.00 |
A fine-tune, 40 h on an H100 SXM
Crusoe
$156.00
GPUBank
$74.00
Saves $82.00 at GPUBank (−53 %)
An inference box, a month, 720 h, on an L40S
Crusoe
$1,080.00
GPUBank
$396.00
Saves $684.00 at GPUBank (−63 %)
A long-context job, 40 h on an H200
Crusoe
$171.60
GPUBank
$99.60
Saves $72.00 at GPUBank (−42 %)
02Their catalogue
Every GPU Crusoe lists.
Crusoe lists 10 GPU models. The 9 below are the ones recorded in our check, each at its lowest public price per GPU-hour. 6 of them are also rented at GPUBank (in blue).
GB200186 GB · on demandNo price
B200180 GB · on demandNo price- H200141 GB · on demand$4.29
- H100 SXM80 GB · on demand$3.90
- A100 SXM 80GB80 GB · on demand$2.30
A100 PCIe 80GB80 GB · on demand$2.00- L40S48 GB · on demand$1.50
- MI355X288 GB · on demandNo price
- MI300X192 GB · on demand$3.45
At GPUBank
vCPU, RAM, NVMe and traffic included. All prices
03What the price includes
What appears on the bill besides the GPU.
The same H100 SXM session of 2 h 14 m 03 s, line by line, as each provider describes its billing.
Crusoe
2 h 14 m 03 s on H100 SXM
- GPU · $3.90 / h
- $8.71
- vCPU and RAM
- Included
- Storage
- $0.08 per GiB-month, persistent disk
- Egress
- Included
- Public IPv4
- Not published
- Billing granularity
- Per second
- Minimum charge
- Not published
GPUBank
2 h 14 m 03 s on H100 SXM
- GPU · $1.85 / h
- $4.13
- vCPU and RAM
- Included
- Storage
- Local NVMe included; persistent disk $0.03 per GB-month
- Egress
- Included
- Public IPv4
- Included
- Billing granularity
- Per second, from the health check
- Minimum charge
- None
While stopped
What keeps running on the bill.
Crusoe
No compute charge, OS disk still billed.
Crusoe bills the 128 GB OS disk at $0.08 per GiB-month until the VM is deleted.
GPUBank
Only the persistent disk, $0.03 per GB-month. Compute, IPv4 and scratch cost nothing.
04Where the GPUs run
3 countries against 4, and where they are.
Countries where Crusoe says its GPUs run, from its own region list or documentation, against GPUBank's four regions. A pin marks a country, not the exact site.
United States
Iceland
Norway
Paris
Frankfurt
Ashburn
Singapore
Crusoe3
- United States
Iceland
Norway
GPUBank4
Paris
Frankfurt- Ashburn
Singapore
Crusoe · 3 countriesGPUBank · 4 regions
05Paying and signing up
How each one takes your money.
Crusoe
Payments and sign-up
Payment methods
Cards
No cryptoMinimum top-up Not published
To start
- 1Email and password
- 2Card
Billing modelPostpaid monthly invoice, card on file
GPUBank
Payments and sign-up
Payment methods
A prepaid USD balance, topped up in crypto. Every GPU-second is drawn from it.
Minimum top-up $25
To start
- 1Email and password
- 2Top up in crypto
- 3Launch a GPU
Billing modelPrepaid balance
06Trust and support
Certificates, uptime and who answers.
| Crusoe | GPUBank | |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Not published |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | Not published |
| HIPAA | BAA available | No |
| GDPR DPA | Listed, report not public | Published DPA, applies automatically |
| Availability target | No SLA found; 99.5% uptime claimed | 99.9 % monthly, per region |
| Status page | status.crusoecloud.com | Public status page |
| Support | Email and web; Enterprise tier 1 h P1 | Tickets from a $25 balance |
07Their site, our site
What you see before you pay.
Both sites as a visitor sees them, without an account: the Crusoe pricing page captured on 29 September 2026, and GPUBank's live board. Cookie banners and chat bubbles are closed; nothing else is edited.
- 1Per GPU-hour on-demand prices are public for 6 of 9 GPUs; GB200, B200 and MI355X say Contact sales.
- 2The spot column shows Contact sales for every GPU.
- 3The pricing page also lists CPU, storage, Kubernetes, fine-tuning and token prices; the B300 appears in the docs only.
- 1Live stock per region and every price, without an account.
- 2Per-hour and per-second prices, with vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4 and traffic in them.
- 3A machine-readable price feed at /prices.json.
08The spec sheet
25 points, read off both sites.
GPUBank aheadCrusoe aheadEven
| Criterion | GPUBank | Crusoe |
|---|---|---|
| Price and catalogue | ||
| H100 SXM, per GPU-hour | $1.85, all-in | $3.90, 8-GPU nodes only |
| Cheapest GPU-hour | $0.23, RTX 4090 | $1.50, L40S |
| GPU models listed | 10 | 10 |
| What the GPU price includesBoth include compute and a local disk in the GPU price. | vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4, traffic | vCPU, RAM, local NVMe, InfiniBand |
| Billing | ||
| Billing granularity | Per second | Per second |
| Minimum charge | None | Not published |
| Stopped instanceCrusoe bills the 128 GB OS disk at $0.08 per GiB-month until the VM is deleted. | Disk only | No compute charge, OS disk still billed |
| Persistent storageShared NFS disks cost $0.07 per GiB-month and object storage $0.06. | $0.03 per GB-month | $0.08 per GiB-month, persistent disk |
| Egress traffic | Included | Included |
| Public IPv4 | Included | Not published |
| Billing model | Prepaid balance | Postpaid monthly invoice, card on file |
| Payment and sign-up | ||
| Crypto payments | Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more | Not listed, credit card required |
| Card payments | No | Non-prepaid credit cardsAhead |
| Minimum deposit | $25 | Not published |
| Platform | ||
| API and CLI | REST API, CLI, Python SDK | REST API and CLI |
| Terraform | Official provider | Official provider |
| Serverless GPUs | No | Serverless inference and fine-tuningAhead |
| Managed Kubernetes | No | Managed, $0.10 per cluster-hourAhead |
| Ready-made templates | 25 | Not published |
| Interruptible or spot | Yes, 40 % off | Through sales only, no public price |
| GPUs per instance | Up to 8 | Up to 10 (L40S), 8-GPU InfiniBand nodesAhead |
| Multi-node interconnect | Not offered | InfiniBand, 3,200 Gb/s per 8-GPU nodeAhead |
| Network and regions | ||
| Regions | 4 | 7Ahead |
| Countries | France, Germany, US, Singapore | US, Iceland, Norway |
| EU regionsTwo European regions each; GPUBank's are Paris and Frankfurt. | Paris, Frankfurt | Iceland and Norway |
| Trust and support | ||
| Availability target | 99.9 % monthly | No SLA found; 99.5% uptime claimed |
| Compliance reports | None published | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 42001Ahead |
| Public status page | Yes | status.crusoecloud.com |
| SupportBasic support is included with best-effort response times. | Tickets from a $25 balance | Email and web; Enterprise tier 1 h P1Ahead |
09The right fit
Different needs. A clear choice.
What Crusoe does better
- 3,200 Gb/s InfiniBand on 8-GPU H100, H200, B200 and MI300X nodes
- GB200 NVL72, B200 and MI355X listed, on contact-sales pricing
- SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and ISO 42001 on its Trust Center
- Managed Kubernetes, Managed Slurm and token-priced serverless inference
- Enterprise support with 1 h P1 response for qualifying commitments
Choose GPUBank if
- H100 SXM at $1.85 per GPU-hour, against $3.90 at Crusoe
- Rent 1 H100, H200 or A100 SXM; Crusoe sells them as 8-GPU nodes
- Self-serve interruptible at -40 %; Crusoe spot is sales-only
- Pay in Bitcoin, USDT and 12+ other coins, no card
- RTX 4090, RTX 5090 and RTX PRO 6000, which Crusoe does not list
Moving from Crusoe takes an afternoon.
Crusoe charges no egress fee, so copying data out costs nothing on its side. Local NVMe is erased on stop, so move data to a persistent disk first.
- 1Launch the same GPU on GPUBank with a persistent disk in the region you need.
- 2Copy persistent disks with rsync, or pull from Crusoe's S3-compatible object storage with rclone.
- 3Rebuild your VM image as a Docker image or pick the matching template, then delete the Crusoe VMs and disks.
# 1. a GPU and a disk on GPUBank gpubank launch --gpu h100-sxm --region eu-paris --disk data # 2. copy your data from the old machine rsync -azP old-host:/workspace/ root@<new-ip>:/workspace/ # 3. run the same image or template ssh root@<new-ip> 'cd /workspace && ./start.sh'
A few things you might be wondering.
Yes. Crusoe lists the H100 SXM at $3.90 per GPU-hour on an 8-GPU instance. GPUBank charges $1.85 per GPU-hour, with vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4 and traffic included, and rents a single GPU.
Not on the published instance types. Crusoe sells the H100, H200, A100 SXM and MI300X as 8-GPU instances; single-GPU sizes exist for the L40S and A100 PCIe. GPUBank rents from 1 to 8 GPUs per instance.
Crusoe does not document crypto, PayPal or wire payments. Billing must be enabled with a valid, non-prepaid credit card before you can provision. GPUBank is paid from a USD balance topped up in Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and more than a dozen other coins.
Crusoe. It runs 8-GPU nodes on 3,200 Gb/s InfiniBand, 6,400 Gb/s on B300, with Managed Kubernetes and Managed Slurm. GPUBank rents up to 8 GPUs per instance and does not sell InfiniBand clusters.
Crusoe has two European regions, in Iceland and Norway, plus five in the United States. It lists no Asia region. GPUBank has Paris and Frankfurt in Europe, plus Ashburn and Singapore.
Without. Every price on this page excludes VAT and sales tax, for Crusoe and for GPUBank, so the two columns compare like for like. Tax is added at checkout according to where the buyer is based.
Sources
Every figure about Crusoe was read on its own pages or official documentation. Prices last checked on 29 September 2026.
- 01crusoe.ai/cloud/pricingGPU, CPU, storage, CMK, managed inference prices, FAQ on egress and billing
- 02crusoe.ai/99.5% uptime claim, GPU lineup, funding
- 03crusoe.ai/about/companyFounded 2018, funding history
- 04docs.crusoecloud.com/compute/virtual-machines/overviewInstance types, zones, per-second billing, stopped VM billing
- 05docs.crusoecloud.com/create-an-accountSign-up steps, non-prepaid credit card requirement
- 06docs.crusoecloud.com/usage-billing/viewing-billingMonthly invoice, credits, taxes
- 07docs.crusoecloud.com/usage-billing/spotSpot via sales
- 08docs.crusoecloud.com/usage-billing/reservations/overviewReserved instance mechanics
- 09docs.crusoecloud.com/usage-billing/viewing-quotasQuota model
- 10docs.crusoecloud.com/storage/disks/overviewDisk types and prices
- 11docs.crusoecloud.com/networking/overviewNo egress charge, InfiniBand included
- 12docs.crusoecloud.com/reference/locationsRegions and cities
- 13docs.crusoecloud.com/infrastructure-cloud/terraformTerraform support
- 14docs.crusoecloud.com/resources/support_tiersSupport channels and response times
- 15trust.crusoe.ai/SOC 2, ISO, HIPAA guide, Stripe as payment processor
- 16status.crusoecloud.com/Status page, extra regions us-east2, us-northcentral1
- 17docs.crusoecloud.com/5 USD free credits, CLI, Terraform, MCP
- 18legal.crusoe.ai/Headquarters
What we could not verify (9)
- Spot prices: 'Contact sales' for every GPU
- GB200, B200 and MI355X on-demand prices: contact sales
- B300 price: listed in docs instance table, absent from pricing page
- Whether Self-Serve Deployments hourly price is per GPU or per endpoint
- IPv4 address charges not published
- Payment methods other than credit card (PayPal, wire, crypto) not documented
- Formal SLA percentage and credits not found in public docs
- HQ city and country not stated on pages read
- City for Iceland, Norway, us-east2 and us-northcentral1 regions not published in locations doc
In short
GPUBank vs Crusoe, in facts.
The essentials of this comparison in one table, for quick readers and AI assistants. Prices last checked on 29 September 2026.
Read as Markdown- H100 SXM, per GPU-hour
- Crusoe: $3.90, 8-GPU nodes only
GPUBank: $1.85, all-in - Cheapest GPU-hour
- Crusoe: $1.50, L40S
GPUBank: $0.23, RTX 4090 - Billing granularity
- Crusoe: Per second
GPUBank: Per second - Stopped instance
- Crusoe: No compute charge, OS disk still billed
GPUBank: Disk only - Persistent storage
- Crusoe: $0.08 per GiB-month, persistent disk
GPUBank: $0.03 per GB-month - Egress traffic
- Crusoe: Included
GPUBank: Included - Crypto payments
- Crusoe: Not listed, credit card required
GPUBank: Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more - Card payments
- Crusoe: Non-prepaid credit cards
GPUBank: No - Minimum deposit
- Crusoe: Not published
GPUBank: $25 - GPU models listed
- Crusoe: 10
GPUBank: 10 - Regions
- Crusoe: 7
GPUBank: 4 - Serverless GPUs
- Crusoe: Serverless inference and fine-tuning
GPUBank: No - Availability target
- Crusoe: No SLA found; 99.5% uptime claimed
GPUBank: 99.9 % monthly - Compliance reports
- Crusoe: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, ISO 42001
GPUBank: None published - Support
- Crusoe: Email and web; Enterprise tier 1 h P1
GPUBank: Tickets from a $25 balance - Headquarters
- Crusoe: Denver, United States
GPUBank: Tallinn, Estonia
How this page was made
Every price and policy of Crusoe was read on its own website, documentation or public API on 29 September 2026, with the address of each page listed above. A value we could not read on a primary source is marked "Not published" rather than estimated. GPUBank figures come from this site and its terms. Prices change: check both providers before you buy. Crusoe, its logo and its website belong to their owner and are shown only to identify the service compared. GPUBank is not affiliated with Crusoe.
