GPUBank vs Oracle Cloud (OCI)
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) is Oracle's public cloud. It sells NVIDIA and AMD GPUs as fixed shapes, mostly 8-GPU bare-metal nodes, at list prices that are the same in every region. Its H100 costs $10.00 per GPU-hour and comes only as an 8-GPU node at $80.00 per hour; GPUBank charges $1.85 for a single H100 SXM. OCI offers Superclusters, managed Kubernetes, 45 regions and a long compliance list; GPUBank costs less, keeps a stopped instance at disk cost 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
Oracle Cloud (OCI)
Austin, United States · since 1977
H100 SXM
$10.00 / h
- Superclusters of up to 16,384 H100 or 131,072 B200 GPUs on RDMA networks
- B300, GB200 and GB300 NVL72, MI355X, A10 and V100 in the catalogue
- SOC 1/2/3, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP and C5 listed for OCI
Oracle Cloud (OCI)
Hyperscaler
United States25 points compared21 of their pages readprices last checked on 29 September 2026page updated 2 November 2026
The verdict
Scale, regions and compliance at Oracle Cloud. Lower prices and single-GPU instances at GPUBank.
OCI fits enterprises that need full 8-GPU bare-metal nodes or Superclusters with RDMA networking, 45 regions and SOC 2, ISO 27001, HIPAA or FedRAMP paperwork. For the seven GPUs both of us rent, GPUBank costs 70 to 84 % less per GPU-hour at list price. OCI bills by the second but with a 1-hour minimum on bare metal, and a stopped GPU shape keeps billing until it is terminated. OCI takes credit cards and debit cards that work like credit cards; GPUBank takes crypto and rents single GPUs.
Oracle Cloud (OCI)GPUBank 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 | Oracle Cloud (OCI) per hour | GPUBank per hour | Difference | 100 h at Oracle Cloud (OCI) | 100 h at GPUBank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 B200 SXM180 GB |
$14.00 | $4.15 | −70 % | $1,400.00 | $415.00 |
 H200 SXM141 GB |
$10.00 | $2.49 | −75 % | $1,000.00 | $249.00 |
 H100 SXM80 GB |
$10.00 | $1.85 | −82 % | $1,000.00 | $185.00 |
 RTX PRO 600096 GB |
$4.50 | $1.15 | −74 % | $450.00 | $115.00 |
 A100 SXM80 GB |
$4.00 | $0.95 | −76 % | $400.00 | $95.00 |
 L40S48 GB |
$3.50 | $0.55 | −84 % | $350.00 | $55.00 |
 MI300X192 GB |
$6.00 | $1.65 | −72 % | $600.00 | $165.00 |
OCI prices are per GPU on 8-GPU bare-metal shapes (4-GPU for L40S), with a 1-hour minimum. Oracle does not name the H100 or A100 form factor; we read the 8-GPU NVLink shapes as SXM.
A fine-tune, 40 h on an H100 SXM
Oracle Cloud (OCI)
$400.00
GPUBank
$74.00
Saves $326.00 at GPUBank (−82 %)
An inference box, a month, 720 h, on an L40S
Oracle Cloud (OCI)
$2,520.00
GPUBank
$396.00
Saves $2,124.00 at GPUBank (−84 %)
A long-context job, 40 h on an H200
Oracle Cloud (OCI)
$400.00
GPUBank
$99.60
Saves $300.40 at GPUBank (−75 %)
02Their catalogue
Every GPU Oracle Cloud (OCI) lists.
15 GPU models listed by Oracle Cloud (OCI), each at its lowest public price per GPU-hour. 7 of them are also rented at GPUBank (in blue).
- Blackwell and Hopper6
GB300279 GB · on demand$18.00- GB200189 GB · on demand$16.00
- B300263 GB · on demand$15.00
- B200180 GB · on demand$14.00
- H200141 GB · on demand$10.00
- H100 SXM80 GB · on demand$10.00
- Ampere, Ada and older data-centre6
- A100 SXM 80GB80 GB · on demand$4.00
- A100 40GB40 GB · on demand$3.05
- L40S48 GB · on demand$3.50
A1024 GB · on demand$2.00
V10016 GB · on demand$2.95
P10016 GB · spot$0.64
- Workstation1
- RTX PRO 600096 GB · on demand$4.50
- AMD and other accelerators2
- MI355X288 GB · on demand$8.60
- MI300X192 GB · on demand$6.00
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.
Oracle Cloud (OCI)
2 h 14 m 03 s on H100 SXM
- GPU · $10.00 / h
- $22.34
- vCPU and RAM
- Included
- Storage
- $0.0255 per GB-month plus performance units
- Egress
- 10 TB/month free, then from $0.0085/GB
- Public IPv4
- Not published
- Billing granularity
- Per second
- Minimum charge
- 1 hour on bare metal, 1 minute on VMs
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.
Oracle Cloud (OCI)
Billed while stopped, except A10 VMs.
GPU shapes keep billing because GPUs and local NVMe stay reserved; only termination stops it.
GPUBank
Only the persistent disk, $0.03 per GB-month. Compute, IPv4 and scratch cost nothing.
04Where the GPUs run
27 countries against 4, and where they are.
Countries where Oracle Cloud (OCI) 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.
Paris
Frankfurt
Ashburn
Singapore
Oracle Cloud (OCI)27
Australia
Brazil
Canada
Chile
Colombia
France
Germany
India
Indonesia
Israel
Italy
Japan
Malaysia
Mexico
Morocco
Netherlands
Saudi Arabia
Serbia
Singapore
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
Switzerland
United Arab Emirates
United Kingdom- United States
GPUBank4
- Paris
- Frankfurt
- Ashburn
- Singapore
Oracle Cloud (OCI) · 27 countriesGPUBank · 4 regions
05Paying and signing up
How each one takes your money.
Oracle Cloud (OCI)
Payments and sign-up
Payment methods
Cards
No cryptoMinimum top-up None, no prepayment
To start
- 1Email and password
- 2Name
- 3Country
- 4Address
- 5Phone
Billing modelPostpaid, 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.
| Oracle Cloud (OCI) | GPUBank | |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Listed, report not public | Not published |
| ISO 27001 | Listed, report not public | Not published |
| HIPAA | Listed, report not public | No |
| GDPR DPA | Listed, report not public | Published DPA, applies automatically |
| Availability target | Per-service SLAs; Compute figure not read | 99.9 % monthly, per region |
| Status page | ocistatus.oraclecloud.com | Public status page |
| Support | Included in base fees for paid accounts | 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 Oracle Cloud (OCI) pricing page captured on 29 September 2026, and GPUBank's live board. Cookie banners and chat bubbles are closed; nothing else is edited.
- 1The GPU pricing URLs redirect to one all-services price list of about 114,000 characters.
- 2GPU prices are shown per GPU-hour; a footnote says the server price is the GPU price times the number of GPUs.
- 3The GPU landing page's main button is Talk with a GPU expert, and discount rules sit in footnotes.
- 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 aheadOracle Cloud (OCI) aheadEven
| Criterion | GPUBank | Oracle Cloud (OCI) |
|---|---|---|
| Price and catalogue | ||
| H100 SXM, per GPU-hourOracle does not name the form factor; the 8-GPU NVLink shape is read as SXM. | $1.85, all-in | $10.00, 8-GPU node only ($80.00/h) |
| Cheapest GPU-hourThe cheapest current GPU is the A10 at $2.00 per GPU-hour. | $0.23, RTX 4090 | $1.275, P100 (legacy) |
| GPU models listed | 10 | 15Ahead |
| What the GPU price includesBoot and block volumes are billed on top at OCI; GPUBank includes NVMe, IPv4 and traffic. | vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4, traffic | CPU, RAM, local NVMe |
| Billing | ||
| Billing granularity | Per second | Per second |
| Minimum charge | None | 1 hour on bare metal, 1 minute on VMs |
| Stopped instanceGPU shapes keep billing because GPUs and local NVMe stay reserved; only termination stops it. | Disk only | Billed while stopped, except A10 VMs |
| Persistent storageBlock volume rate; the balanced tier adds $0.017 per GB-month. | $0.03 per GB-month | $0.0255 per GB-month plus performance unitsAhead |
| Egress traffic | Included | 10 TB/month free, then from $0.0085/GB |
| Public IPv4 | Included | Not published |
| Billing model | Prepaid balance | Postpaid, card on file |
| Payment and sign-up | ||
| Crypto paymentsOCI accepts credit cards and debit cards that work like credit cards. | Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more | Not offered |
| Card payments | No | Credit cards; no prepaid, virtual or PIN debitAhead |
| Minimum depositA $1 card authorization at sign-up and $100 at upgrade to Pay As You Go. | $25 | None, no prepaymentAhead |
| Platform | ||
| API and CLI | REST API, CLI, Python SDK | REST API, CLI, SDKs in six languagesAhead |
| Terraform | Official provider | Official provider |
| Serverless GPUs | No | Not published |
| Managed Kubernetes | No | Managed (OKE) with GPU nodesAhead |
| Ready-made templates | 25 | Not published |
| Interruptible or spotGPUBank interruptible pricing covers current GPUs; OCI bare metal cannot be preemptible. | Yes, 40 % off | Preemptible at 50 %, V100 and P100 VMs only |
| GPUs per instance | Up to 8 | Up to 8, Superclusters beyondAhead |
| Multi-node interconnect | Not offered | RDMA, up to 3,200 Gb/s per nodeAhead |
| Network and regions | ||
| Regions | 4 | 45Ahead |
| Countries | France, Germany, US, Singapore | 27Ahead |
| EU regions | Paris, Frankfurt | Paris, Frankfurt, Amsterdam, Madrid and moreAhead |
| Trust and support | ||
| Availability targetThe percentages sit in Oracle's Pillar Document PDF, which the dossier did not read. | 99.9 % monthly | Per-service SLAs; Compute figure not read |
| Compliance reports | None published | SOC 1/2/3, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMPAhead |
| Public status page | Yes | ocistatus.oraclecloud.com |
| Support | Tickets from a $25 balance | Included in base fees for paid accountsAhead |
09The right fit
Different needs. A clear choice.
What Oracle Cloud (OCI) does better
- Superclusters of up to 16,384 H100 or 131,072 B200 GPUs on RDMA networks
- B300, GB200 and GB300 NVL72, MI355X, A10 and V100 in the catalogue
- SOC 1/2/3, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP and C5 listed for OCI
- 45 regions in 27 countries at the same price everywhere
- Managed Kubernetes (OKE) with GPU nodes and SDKs in six languages
Choose GPUBank if
- H100 SXM at $1.85 per GPU-hour, against $10.00 on OCI
- One H100, H200 or B200 per instance; OCI sells these as 8-GPU nodes only
- No 1-hour minimum; per-second billing starts after the health check
- Stop an instance and pay only for its disk
- Pay in Bitcoin, USDT and 12+ other coins, no card
Moving from Oracle Cloud (OCI) takes an afternoon.
OCI egress is free for the first 10 TB per month, then $0.0085 per GB from North America and Europe. Local NVMe on bare-metal shapes is lost at termination, so copy it first.
- 1Launch the same GPU on GPUBank with a persistent disk in the region you need.
- 2Copy local NVMe and block volumes with rsync before you terminate the OCI shape.
- 3Rebuild the environment as a Docker image or template, and rewrite OCI Terraform for the GPUBank provider.
# 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. OCI lists the H100 at $10.00 per GPU-hour on the BM.GPU.H100.8 shape, which you rent whole at $80.00 per hour. GPUBank charges $1.85 per GPU-hour for a single H100 SXM, with vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4 and traffic included.
Not from the price list. OCI sells H100, H200 and B200 as 8-GPU bare-metal shapes with a 1-hour minimum. Its single-GPU VMs use A10, V100 or P100. GPUBank rents from 1 to 8 GPUs per instance.
Yes. GPU shapes keep billing while stopped because the GPUs and local NVMe stay reserved, except the A10 VMs. Only termination stops the charge. On GPUBank a stopped instance costs only its persistent disk, at $0.03 per GB-month.
No. OCI accepts credit cards and debit cards that work like credit cards, and refuses prepaid, virtual, single-use and PIN debit cards. GPUBank is paid from a USD balance topped up in Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and more than a dozen other coins.
Oracle Cloud. OCI Superclusters reach 16,384 H100 or 131,072 B200 GPUs on RDMA networks, with managed Kubernetes and a long compliance list. GPUBank rents up to 8 GPUs per instance and does not sell clusters or bare metal.
Without. Every price on this page excludes VAT and sales tax, for Oracle Cloud (OCI) 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 Oracle Cloud (OCI) was read on its own pages or official documentation. Prices last checked on 29 September 2026.
- 01oracle.com/cloud/price-list/#pricing-computeGPU per-GPU-hour prices, preemptible 50% and capacity-reservation 85% rules, block/object/file storage, egress, NVIDIA AI Enterprise add-on
- 02oracle.com/cloud/compute/gpu/GPU catalogue overview, Supercluster sizes, MI300X US$6/GPU-h claim, RDMA bandwidth
- 03docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Compute/References/computeshapes.htmGPU shape specs: OCPU, RAM, local NVMe, network
- 04docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Compute/Concepts/preemptible.htmSupported shapes (VM.GPU2, VM.GPU3 only), 50% price, termination behaviour
- 05oracle.com/cloud/compute/faq/Billing metric per GPU-hour, stopped GPU instances keep billing except VM.GPU.A10
- 06docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/releasenotes/changes/20facdce-34bf-4648-a0a7-de5db73657ce/Per-second billing, 1-minute VM and 1-hour bare metal minimums
- 07oracle.com/cloud/free/faq/Payment methods, card verification, US$300 trial, no minimums or prepayment, support gating
- 08docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/GSG/Tasks/signingup_topic-Sign_Up_for_Free_Oracle_Cloud_Promotion.htmSign-up fields and card verification
- 09docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Billing/Tasks/changingpaymentmethod.htm1 USD / 100 USD card authorisations, Pay As You Go upgrade, corporate account via sales
- 10docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/General/Concepts/regions.htmCommercial region list, one subscribed region limit for trial and Pay As You Go
- 11oracle.com/cloud/pricing/Same price in every region, 10 TB free egress, support included, Universal Credits
- 12oracle.com/cloud/sla/SLA types and claims process
- 13oracle.com/corporate/cloud-compliance/Attestations listed for OCI
- 14docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/dev/terraform/home.htmOfficial Terraform provider
- 15docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/API/Concepts/sdks.htmSDK languages and CLI
- 16docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/API/Concepts/cliconcepts.htmCLI
- 17docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/ContEng/Concepts/contengoverview.htmManaged Kubernetes with GPU nodes
- 18ocistatus.oraclecloud.com/Status page
What we could not verify (12)
- GPU availability per region: not published on the price list or shapes doc read.
- Form factor of H100 and A100 80GB (SXM vs PCIe) is not named by Oracle; normalised to SXM from the 8-GPU bare metal design and the NVLink validation step in the H100 quick-start guide.
- Reserved/committed-use GPU discounts (Universal Credits volume discounts) are not published; no reserved price rows recorded.
- Public IPv4 pricing: no line item found in the price list.
- SLA percentages for Compute: in the Pillar Document PDF, not read.
- Current headquarters city and country: not stated on corporate pages read (history mentions a move to Redwood Shores, California).
- PayPal and wire/invoice payment for Pay As You Go: not stated on pages read; Universal Credits contracts go through sales.
- Whether Free Trial credits can be used on GPU shapes: not stated on pages read.
- SOC 2 report type (Type I or II) not stated on the compliance page.
- Serverless GPU product, templates, Jupyter, custom Docker image and snapshot details: not verified on pages read.
- Status page lists regions (US Central Columbus, US Mid West Shawnee, US West Boardman) not in the docs commercial region table; regions list uses the docs table.
- Compute Cloud@Customer GPU.L40S (2.90 USD/GPU-h, 0.60 resource commit) and Oracle Cloud VMware Solution BM.GPU.A10.64 (16/13/11 USD per node-hour on monthly/1-year/3-year commit) are on-premises or VMware products and are not recorded as GPU rows.
In short
GPUBank vs Oracle Cloud (OCI), 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
- Oracle Cloud (OCI): $10.00, 8-GPU node only ($80.00/h)
GPUBank: $1.85, all-in - Cheapest GPU-hour
- Oracle Cloud (OCI): $1.275, P100 (legacy)
GPUBank: $0.23, RTX 4090 - Billing granularity
- Oracle Cloud (OCI): Per second
GPUBank: Per second - Stopped instance
- Oracle Cloud (OCI): Billed while stopped, except A10 VMs
GPUBank: Disk only - Persistent storage
- Oracle Cloud (OCI): $0.0255 per GB-month plus performance units
GPUBank: $0.03 per GB-month - Egress traffic
- Oracle Cloud (OCI): 10 TB/month free, then from $0.0085/GB
GPUBank: Included - Crypto payments
- Oracle Cloud (OCI): Not offered
GPUBank: Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more - Card payments
- Oracle Cloud (OCI): Credit cards; no prepaid, virtual or PIN debit
GPUBank: No - Minimum deposit
- Oracle Cloud (OCI): None, no prepayment
GPUBank: $25 - GPU models listed
- Oracle Cloud (OCI): 15
GPUBank: 10 - Regions
- Oracle Cloud (OCI): 45
GPUBank: 4 - Serverless GPUs
- Oracle Cloud (OCI): Not published
GPUBank: No - Availability target
- Oracle Cloud (OCI): Per-service SLAs; Compute figure not read
GPUBank: 99.9 % monthly - Compliance reports
- Oracle Cloud (OCI): SOC 1/2/3, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP
GPUBank: None published - Support
- Oracle Cloud (OCI): Included in base fees for paid accounts
GPUBank: Tickets from a $25 balance - Headquarters
- Oracle Cloud (OCI): Austin, United States
GPUBank: Tallinn, Estonia
How this page was made
Every price and policy of Oracle Cloud (OCI) 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. Oracle Cloud (OCI), its logo and its website belong to their owner and are shown only to identify the service compared. GPUBank is not affiliated with Oracle Cloud (OCI).
