# 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. - Page: https://gpubank.io/compare/gpubank-vs-oracle-cloud - Prices last checked on 29 September 2026, on Oracle Cloud (OCI)'s own pages (sources below). Page updated 2 November 2026. - Oracle Cloud (OCI): https://www.oracle.com/cloud/, headquartered in Austin, United States - GPUBank: https://gpubank.io, GPU cloud billed per second at an all-in hourly price (vCPU, RAM, NVMe, one IPv4 and traffic included), prepaid balance topped up in crypto. ## 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. Score over 25 points: GPUBank ahead on 8, even on 4, Oracle Cloud (OCI) ahead on 13. ## Key facts | Criterion | Oracle Cloud (OCI) | GPUBank | |---|---|---| | H100 SXM, per GPU-hour | $10.00, 8-GPU node only ($80.00/h) | $1.85, all-in | | Cheapest GPU-hour | $1.275, P100 (legacy) | $0.23, RTX 4090 | | Billing granularity | Per second | Per second | | Stopped instance | Billed while stopped, except A10 VMs | Disk only | | Persistent storage | $0.0255 per GB-month plus performance units | $0.03 per GB-month | | Egress traffic | 10 TB/month free, then from $0.0085/GB | Included | | Crypto payments | Not offered | Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more | | Card payments | Credit cards; no prepaid, virtual or PIN debit | No | | Minimum deposit | None, no prepayment | $25 | | GPU models listed | 15 | 10 | | Regions | 45 | 4 | | Serverless GPUs | Not published | No | | Availability target | Per-service SLAs; Compute figure not read | 99.9 % monthly | | Compliance reports | SOC 1/2/3, ISO 27001, HIPAA, FedRAMP | None published | | Support | Included in base fees for paid accounts | Tickets from a $25 balance | | Headquarters | Austin, United States | Tallinn, Estonia | ## Same GPUs, price per GPU-hour (USD, excl. VAT) | GPU | Oracle Cloud (OCI) | GPUBank | Difference | |---|---|---|---| | B200 SXM | $14.00 (on demand) | $4.15 | -70 % | | H200 SXM | $10.00 (on demand) | $2.49 | -75 % | | H100 SXM | $10.00 (on demand) | $1.85 | -82 % | | RTX PRO 6000 | $4.50 (on demand) | $1.15 | -74 % | | A100 SXM | $4.00 (on demand) | $0.95 | -76 % | | L40S | $3.50 (on demand) | $0.55 | -84 % | | MI300X | $6.00 (on demand) | $1.65 | -72 % | ## When to pick Oracle Cloud (OCI) - 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 ## When to pick GPUBank - 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 ## Questions ### Is GPUBank cheaper than Oracle Cloud for an H100? 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. ### Can I rent a single H100 on Oracle Cloud? 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. ### Does a stopped OCI GPU instance still cost money? 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. ### Does Oracle Cloud accept crypto or prepaid cards? 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. ### Which is better for large training clusters? 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. ### Are these prices with or without VAT? 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 - https://www.oracle.com/cloud/price-list/#pricing-compute: GPU per-GPU-hour prices, preemptible 50% and capacity-reservation 85% rules, block/object/file storage, egress, NVIDIA AI Enterprise add-on - https://www.oracle.com/cloud/compute/gpu/: GPU catalogue overview, Supercluster sizes, MI300X US$6/GPU-h claim, RDMA bandwidth - https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Compute/References/computeshapes.htm: GPU shape specs: OCPU, RAM, local NVMe, network - https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Compute/Concepts/preemptible.htm: Supported shapes (VM.GPU2, VM.GPU3 only), 50% price, termination behaviour - https://www.oracle.com/cloud/compute/faq/: Billing metric per GPU-hour, stopped GPU instances keep billing except VM.GPU.A10 - https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/releasenotes/changes/20facdce-34bf-4648-a0a7-de5db73657ce/: Per-second billing, 1-minute VM and 1-hour bare metal minimums - https://www.oracle.com/cloud/free/faq/: Payment methods, card verification, US$300 trial, no minimums or prepayment, support gating - https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/GSG/Tasks/signingup_topic-Sign_Up_for_Free_Oracle_Cloud_Promotion.htm: Sign-up fields and card verification - https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/Billing/Tasks/changingpaymentmethod.htm: 1 USD / 100 USD card authorisations, Pay As You Go upgrade, corporate account via sales - https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/General/Concepts/regions.htm: Commercial region list, one subscribed region limit for trial and Pay As You Go - https://www.oracle.com/cloud/pricing/: Same price in every region, 10 TB free egress, support included, Universal Credits - https://www.oracle.com/cloud/sla/: SLA types and claims process - https://www.oracle.com/corporate/cloud-compliance/: Attestations listed for OCI - https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/dev/terraform/home.htm: Official Terraform provider - https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/API/Concepts/sdks.htm: SDK languages and CLI - https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/API/Concepts/cliconcepts.htm: CLI - https://docs.oracle.com/en-us/iaas/Content/ContEng/Concepts/contengoverview.htm: Managed Kubernetes with GPU nodes - https://ocistatus.oraclecloud.com/: Status page Prices change: check both providers before buying. 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