GPUBank vs io.net
io.net is run by IO.NET Inc., a Delaware company, and resells GPUs from partner datacenters and from its own decentralized worker network, tied to the Solana-based IO Coin. Its prices are dynamic: the io.net-network H100 SXM VM was listed at $1.99 per GPU-hour but sold out, a $1.19 Ray rate applies to a managed service on request, and the cheapest H100 you could book on 2026-09-29 was $2.60. GPUBank charges a fixed $1.85; io.net has a wider catalogue, takes USDC and cards, and sells managed Kubernetes and Ray.
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
io.net
United States
H100 SXM · not bookable
$1.99 / h
- 27 NVIDIA models, from RTX A4000 at $0.15 to B300
- Managed Kubernetes, Ray and bare metal on request
- Confidential compute on H100, H200 and B200, as a managed service
io.net
Decentralized
26 points compared23 of their pages readprices last checked on 29 September 2026page updated 2 November 2026
The verdict
A wider catalogue and managed clusters at io.net. Fixed prices and per-second billing at GPUBank.
io.net lists 27 NVIDIA models and low network rates, but on the check date every io.net-network device was sold out, and the partner H100 you could book cost $2.60 per GPU-hour. Its rates can change while a booking runs, the first hour is charged upfront and not refunded, and billing then runs in advance in 5-minute blocks. There is no stop state or persistent volume, so ending a booking removes its data. io.net wins on catalogue width, managed Kubernetes and Ray, 24/7 chat and a $10 minimum.
io.netGPUBank 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 | io.net per hour | GPUBank per hour | Difference | 100 h at io.net | 100 h at GPUBank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 B200 SXM180 GB |
$7.91 | $4.15 | −48 % | $791.00 | $415.00 |
 H200 SXM141 GB |
$3.79 | $2.49 | −34 % | $379.00 | $249.00 |
 H100 SXM80 GB · not bookable on the check date |
$1.99 | $1.85 | −7 % | $199.00 | $185.00 |
 H100 PCIe80 GB · not bookable on the check date |
$1.00 | $1.35 | +35 % | $100.00 | $135.00 |
 RTX PRO 600096 GB |
$2.09 | $1.15 | −45 % | $209.00 | $115.00 |
 A100 SXM80 GB |
$1.31 | $0.95 | −27 % | $131.00 | $95.00 |
 L40S48 GB |
$0.84 | $0.55 | −35 % | $84.00 | $55.00 |
 RTX 509032 GB · not bookable on the check date |
$0.89 | $0.48 | −46 % | $89.00 | $48.00 |
 RTX 409024 GB · not bookable on the check date |
$0.30 | $0.23 | −23 % | $30.00 | $23.00 |
io.net rates are dynamic. The H100 SXM, H100 PCIe, RTX 5090 and RTX 4090 rows were marked sold out on 2026-09-29 and could not be booked. Lower Ray rates exist but are a managed service on request.
A fine-tune, 40 h on an H100 SXM
io.net
$79.60
GPUBank
$74.00
Saves $5.60 at GPUBank (−7 %)
An inference box, a month, 720 h, on an L40S
io.net
$604.80
GPUBank
$396.00
Saves $208.80 at GPUBank (−35 %)
Image generation, 200 h on an RTX 4090
io.net
$60.00
GPUBank
$46.00
Saves $14.00 at GPUBank (−23 %)
02Their catalogue
Every GPU io.net lists.
33 GPU models listed by io.net, each at its lowest public price per GPU-hour. 9 of them are also rented at GPUBank (in blue).
- Blackwell and Hopper5
- B300275 GB · on demand · not bookable$4.50
- B200180 GB · on demand$7.91
- H200141 GB · on demand$3.79
- H100 SXM80 GB · on demand · not bookable$1.99
- H100 PCIe80 GB · on demand · not bookable$1.00
- Ampere, Ada and older data-centre10
- A100 SXM 80GB80 GB · on demand$1.31
A100 PCIe 80GB80 GB · on demand · not bookable$1.29- A100 40GB40 GB · on demand$2.08
- L40S48 GB · on demand$0.84
- L4048 GB · on demand$0.66
L424 GB · on demand$1.04
A4048 GB · on demand$1.51
- Ampere, Ada and older data-centre continued10
A3024 GB · on demand$1.97
T416 GB · on demand$0.47
V10032 GB · on demand$1.26- Workstation5
- RTX PRO 600096 GB · on demand$2.09
RTX 6000 Ada48 GB · on demand$0.68
RTX A600048 GB · on demand$0.47
RTX A500024 GB · on demand · not bookable$0.19
RTX A400016 GB · on demand · not bookable$0.15- Consumer7
- RTX 509032 GB · on demand · not bookable$0.89
- RTX 4090 D24 GB · on demand · not bookable$0.30
- RTX 409024 GB · on demand · not bookable$0.30
- Consumer continued7
- RTX 4070 Tion demand · not bookable$0.19
- RTX 4060 Tion demand · not bookable$0.18
RTX 309024 GB · on demand · not bookable$0.25
RTX 3060on demand · not bookable$0.13- Other models6
- M4 Maxon demand · not bookable$0.15
- M3 Maxon demand · not bookable$0.14
- M3 Proon demand · not bookable$0.13
- M4 Proon demand · not bookable$0.13
- M3on demand · not bookable$0.10
- M4on demand · not bookable$0.10
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.
io.net
2 h 14 m 03 s on H100 SXM
- GPU · $1.99 / h
- $4.45
- vCPU and RAM
- Included
- Storage
- Local disk only; no persistent volumes
- Egress
- Not published
- Public IPv4
- Not published
- Billing granularity
- 5-minute blocks, billed in advance
- Minimum charge
- First hour upfront, not refunded
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.
io.net
No stop state; stopping removes the booking.
Prepaid time is forfeited, and running out of credit terminates bookings, which can lose data.
GPUBank
Only the persistent disk, $0.03 per GB-month. Compute, IPv4 and scratch cost nothing.
04Where the GPUs run
4 countries against 4, and where they are.
Countries where io.net 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
Finland
India
Poland
Paris
Frankfurt
Ashburn
Singapore
io.net4
United States
Finland
India
Poland
GPUBank4
Paris
Frankfurt- Ashburn
Singapore
io.net · 4 countriesGPUBank · 4 regions
05Paying and signing up
How each one takes your money.
io.net
Payments and sign-up
Payment methods
CardsCrypto: USDC and IO Coin, no fee
Minimum top-up $10
To start
- 1Email (one-time passcode)
- 2Age 18+ and not on US/EU/UK sanctions lists
Billing modelPrepaid IO Credits
GPUBank
Payments and sign-up
Payment methods
No cardsA 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.
| io.net | GPUBank | |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Not published | Not published |
| ISO 27001 | Not published | Not published |
| HIPAA | Not published | No |
| GDPR DPA | Listed, report not public | Published DPA, applies automatically |
| Availability target | None published | 99.9 % monthly, per region |
| Status page | None; footer says all services online | Public status page |
| Support | Email, contact form, 24/7 chat | 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 io.net home page captured on 29 September 2026, and GPUBank's live board. Cookie banners and chat bubbles are closed; nothing else is edited.
- 1io.net/pricing returns a 404; prices live in the cloud console, the home page carousel and the IO Explorer, all visible without login.
- 2The home page claims H100s from $2.19 per hour; no live listing at that price was found on the check date.
- 3The console hides sold-out items by default; with Show unavailable, all 17 io.net-network devices appear as Sold Out with a Request button.
- 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
26 points, read off both sites.
GPUBank aheadio.net aheadEven
| Criterion | GPUBank | io.net |
|---|---|---|
| Price and catalogue | ||
| H100 SXM, per GPU-hourThe Ray rate is for a managed service on request. The cheapest bookable H100 was $2.60, form factor not stated. | $1.85, all-in | $1.99 VM, sold out; $1.19 Ray rate |
| Cheapest GPU-hourThe cheapest bookable GPU was $0.47 (T4, partner VM in India). Ray rates from $0.10 are a managed service. | $0.23, RTX 4090 | $0.15, RTX A4000, sold outAhead |
| GPU models listed | 10 | 33, including 6 Apple M-series chipsAhead |
| What the GPU price includesEgress and IPv4 prices are not published. | vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4, traffic | vCPU, RAM, local storage |
| Billing | ||
| Billing granularityIdle time is billed too. | Per second | 5-minute blocks, billed in advance |
| Minimum charge | None | First hour upfront, not refunded |
| Stopped instancePrepaid time is forfeited, and running out of credit terminates bookings, which can lose data. | Disk only | No stop state; stopping removes the booking |
| Persistent storage | $0.03 per GB-month | Local disk only; no persistent volumes |
| Egress traffic | Included | Not published |
| Public IPv4 | Included | Not published |
| Billing modelPurchased credits expire after 12 months. | Prepaid balance | Prepaid IO Credits |
| Payment and sign-up | ||
| Crypto paymentsVia SpherePay with a Solana or Aptos wallet. GPUBank takes Bitcoin, Ethereum and more. | Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more | USDC and IO Coin, no fee |
| Card payments | No | Cards via Stripe, 5 % feeAhead |
| Minimum deposit | $25 | $10Ahead |
| Platform | ||
| API and CLI | REST API, CLI, Python SDK | REST API; no CLI or SDK found |
| Terraform | Official provider | No provider found |
| Serverless GPUs | No | No |
| Managed Kubernetes | No | Managed, on request via salesAhead |
| Ready-made templatesPartner VMs use a fixed preloaded image. | 25 | 12 container recipes |
| Interruptible or spot | Yes, 40 % off | No |
| GPUs per instanceRay clusters are a managed service on request. | Up to 8 | Up to 8 per VM |
| Multi-node interconnect | Not offered | Not published |
| Network and regions | ||
| Regionsio.net-network devices do not show a location. | 4 | Partner listings in 4 countries |
| Countries | France, Germany, US, Singapore | US, Finland, India, Poland |
| EU regions | Paris, Frankfurt | Finland and Poland |
| Trust and support | ||
| Availability target | 99.9 % monthly | None published |
| Compliance reportsReport type, scope and date are not stated. | None published | SOC 2 badge only; no report published |
| Public status page | Yes | None; footer says all services online |
| Support | Tickets from a $25 balance | Email, contact form, 24/7 chatAhead |
09The right fit
Different needs. A clear choice.
What io.net does better
- 27 NVIDIA models, from RTX A4000 at $0.15 to B300
- Managed Kubernetes, Ray and bare metal on request
- Confidential compute on H100, H200 and B200, as a managed service
- USDC and IO Coin top-ups with no fee, or cards, from $10
- Chat support, 24/7 per the contact page
Choose GPUBank if
- Fixed prices, where io.net rates can change on a running booking
- Per-second billing, against 1 hour upfront then 5-minute blocks
- Stop an instance and keep its disk, at $0.03 per GB-month
- IPv4 and all traffic included; io.net publishes neither price
- Terraform provider, CLI, Python SDK and a status page
Moving from io.net takes an afternoon.
io.net has no volumes or snapshots to export, so data must be copied off the booking's local storage before it is stopped. Container workloads use standard Docker images and move as they are.
- 1Copy your data off the io.net booking with scp or rsync before you stop it.
- 2Launch the same GPU on GPUBank with a persistent disk and run the same Docker image.
- 3Stop the io.net booking; unused IO Credits can be withdrawn after a finance review of 3 to 7 business days.
# 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.
For an H100 you can book now, yes. On 2026-09-29 the io.net-network H100 SXM at $1.99 per GPU-hour was sold out, and the cheapest available H100 was a partner VM at $2.60. The $1.19 shown in IO Explorer is a Ray rate for a managed service on request. GPUBank charges a fixed $1.85.
Yes. io.net sells IO Credits for USDC or IO Coin through SpherePay, with no fee, and for cards through Stripe with a 5 % fee. GPUBank takes Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and more than a dozen other coins, and no cards.
Yes. io.net uses dynamic pricing, and the rate of a running booking changes when the supplier changes its price, with an email notice. GPUBank publishes fixed prices.
No stop state is documented. Stopping a pay-as-you-go booking ends billing and removes the booking, and prepaid time is forfeited. On GPUBank a stopped instance keeps its persistent disk at $0.03 per GB-month.
Sources
Every figure about io.net was read on its own pages or official documentation. Prices last checked on 29 September 2026.
- 01cloud.io.net/cloud/virtual-machines/create-clusterLive VM prices, GPU counts, storage, supplier, location
- 02cloud.io.net/cloud/container/create-clusterContainer prices, recipe templates
- 03explorer.io.net/explorer/homeRay, Container, Baremetal, VM rates for io.net network devices, network size
- 04io.net/Carousel prices, 30 July 2025 price table, hero claims, SOC2/GDPR badges
- 05io.net/cloudSite observations
- 06io.net/pricingConfirmed no pricing page
- 07io.net/docs/guides/payment/io-cloud-paymentsCredits-only compute, 5% card fee, no crypto fee, Solana/Aptos wallets
- 08io.net/docs/guides/payment/io-credits10 USD minimum, USDC via Spherepay, card via Stripe, 12-month expiry, withdrawals
- 09io.net/docs/guides/payment/pay-as-you-goFirst hour upfront, incremental charging, termination on low balance, burn-rate API
- 10io.net/docs/guides/payment/card-payments-faqs5% Stripe fee, local currency
- 11io.net/docs/guides/payment/deploy-cluster-and-payIO Coin and USDC via Sphere Pay (legacy per-cluster flow)
- 12io.net/termsLegal entity, 5-minute block billing, dynamic pricing, no refunds, sanctions/age eligibility
- 13io.net/docs/guides/loginsignupEmail OTP and social sign-up
- 14io.net/docs/guides/clouds/start-using-io-cloudSign-up methods, cluster types, Jupyter/VS Code tools
- 15io.net/docs/guides/faqsupply sources, SOC2 suppliers
- 16io.net/docs/guides/clouds/deploy-vm-on-demandImages, SSH, partner image restriction, ports
- 17io.net/docs/guides/clouds/deploy-containersCustom Docker images, 1-hour minimum
- 18io.net/docs/guides/clouds/managed-servicesBare Metal, Kubernetes, Ray, Confidential Compute on request, bare metal self-service withdrawn 1 Oct 2025
What we could not verify (9)
- vCPU and RAM per listing: shown only behind "More details" in the console; the VMaaS hardware API that returns them requires an API key (HTTP 401 without one).
- Egress and IPv4 pricing: not published.
- SLA and uptime: not published; no status page found.
- SOC 2: only a footer badge; report type, scope and date not published.
- Form factor (SXM or PCIe) of the partner "H100" and several "A100" 80GB listings is not stated; recorded as model "other".
- Whether the IO Explorer "Ray" and "BAREMETAL" rates are still bookable: docs say both are now managed services on request.
- The "$0.74 / hr" H100 figure on io.net/cloud: the widget does not say which provider it refers to.
- Company founding year, headquarters city and funding totals: not stated on the pages read.
- catalogue_count counts 27 NVIDIA models (B300, B200, H200, H100 SXM, H100 PCIe, A100 SXM 80GB, A100 PCIe 80GB, A100 40GB, L40S, L40, L4, A40, A30, T4, V100, RTX PRO 6000, RTX 6000 Ada, RTX A6000, RTX A5000, RTX A4000, RTX 5090, RTX 4090, RTX 4090 D, RTX 3090, RTX 4070 Ti, RTX 4060 Ti, RTX 3060); the six Apple M3/M4 chips in the IO Explorer are excluded.
In short
GPUBank vs io.net, 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
- io.net: $1.99 VM, sold out; $1.19 Ray rate
GPUBank: $1.85, all-in - Cheapest GPU-hour
- io.net: $0.15, RTX A4000, sold out
GPUBank: $0.23, RTX 4090 - Billing granularity
- io.net: 5-minute blocks, billed in advance
GPUBank: Per second - Stopped instance
- io.net: No stop state; stopping removes the booking
GPUBank: Disk only - Persistent storage
- io.net: Local disk only; no persistent volumes
GPUBank: $0.03 per GB-month - Egress traffic
- io.net: Not published
GPUBank: Included - Crypto payments
- io.net: USDC and IO Coin, no fee
GPUBank: Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more - Card payments
- io.net: Cards via Stripe, 5 % fee
GPUBank: No - Minimum deposit
- io.net: $10
GPUBank: $25 - GPU models listed
- io.net: 33, including 6 Apple M-series chips
GPUBank: 10 - Regions
- io.net: Partner listings in 4 countries
GPUBank: 4 - Serverless GPUs
- io.net: No
GPUBank: No - Availability target
- io.net: None published
GPUBank: 99.9 % monthly - Compliance reports
- io.net: SOC 2 badge only; no report published
GPUBank: None published - Support
- io.net: Email, contact form, 24/7 chat
GPUBank: Tickets from a $25 balance - Headquarters
- io.net: United States
GPUBank: Tallinn, Estonia
How this page was made
Every price and policy of io.net 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. io.net, its logo and its website belong to their owner and are shown only to identify the service compared. GPUBank is not affiliated with io.net.
