GPUBank vs Shadeform
Shadeform, Inc. is a US GPU marketplace: it runs no infrastructure of its own and resells on-demand instances from 19 other clouds, such as Lambda, Nebius, Crusoe and Hyperstack, through one console, API and wallet. Its lowest H100 SXM listing is $1.95 per GPU-hour on an 8-GPU node, sold out in every listed region on the check date; GPUBank rents a single H100 SXM at $1.85. Shadeform has a far wider catalogue, but on the check date its cheapest bookable listing cost more than GPUBank on every GPU both rent; GPUBank is one operator with its own SLA, included traffic and crypto top-ups.
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
Shadeform
United States
H100 SXM · not bookable
$1.95 / h
- 28 GPU models from 19 clouds in one catalogue and one API
- RTX A6000 from $0.50 and L4 from $0.95, models GPUBank does not list
- B300, GH200, H100 NVL and Gaudi 2 in the catalogue, which GPUBank does not list
Shadeform
Aggregator
23 points compared20 of their pages readprices last checked on 29 September 2026page updated 2 November 2026
The verdict
More GPUs, clouds and regions at Shadeform. One operator, all-in prices and crypto at GPUBank.
Shadeform suits teams that want to compare and launch GPUs across many clouds with one bill, or spend credits they already hold on those clouds. On the check date, GPUBank was cheaper than the cheapest bookable Shadeform listing on every GPU both rent: H200 at $4.00, H100 PCIe at $2.73, RTX PRO 6000 at $2.19, A100 SXM at $1.38, L40S at $1.50 and RTX 4090 at $0.60. Lower listings, such as B200 at $3.74, H200 at $2.25 and RTX PRO 6000 at $0.99 on 8-GPU nodes, were sold out in every listed region, as were all H100 SXM, B200 and RTX 5090 listings. Each Shadeform listing inherits the reselling cloud's hardware, network and SLA; GPUBank runs its own four regions under one SLA target, includes traffic and IPv4, and lets you stop an instance and pay only for its disk.
ShadeformGPUBank 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 | Shadeform per hour | GPUBank per hour | Difference | 100 h at Shadeform | 100 h at GPUBank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 B200 SXM180 GB · not bookable on the check date |
$3.74 | $4.15 | +11 % | $374.00 | $415.00 |
 H200 SXM141 GB |
$4.00 | $2.49 | −38 % | $400.00 | $249.00 |
 H100 SXM80 GB · not bookable on the check date |
$1.95 | $1.85 | −5 % | $195.00 | $185.00 |
 H100 PCIe80 GB |
$2.73 | $1.35 | −51 % | $273.00 | $135.00 |
 RTX PRO 600096 GB |
$2.19 | $1.15 | −47 % | $219.00 | $115.00 |
 A100 SXM80 GB |
$1.38 | $0.95 | −31 % | $138.00 | $95.00 |
 L40S48 GB |
$1.50 | $0.55 | −63 % | $150.00 | $55.00 |
 RTX 509032 GB · not bookable on the check date |
$0.65 | $0.48 | −26 % | $65.00 | $48.00 |
 RTX 409024 GB |
$0.60 | $0.23 | −62 % | $60.00 | $23.00 |
Each row shows the cheapest Shadeform listing bookable on 2026-09-29; rows marked not bookable were sold out everywhere. Lower sold-out listings include H200 at $2.25 and RTX PRO 6000 at $0.99 on 8-GPU nodes.
A fine-tune, 40 h on an H100 SXM
Shadeform
$78.00
GPUBank
$74.00
Saves $4.00 at GPUBank (−5 %)
An inference box, a month, 720 h, on an L40S
Shadeform
$1,080.00
GPUBank
$396.00
Saves $684.00 at GPUBank (−63 %)
Image generation, 200 h on an RTX 4090
Shadeform
$120.00
GPUBank
$46.00
Saves $74.00 at GPUBank (−62 %)
02Their catalogue
Every GPU Shadeform lists.
28 GPU models listed by Shadeform, each at its lowest public price per GPU-hour. 9 of them are also rented at GPUBank (in blue).
- Blackwell and Hopper7
- B300288 GB · on demand · not bookable$4.50
- B200192 GB · on demand · not bookable$3.74
- H200141 GB · on demand$4.00
GH20096 GB · on demand · not bookable$2.29- H100 SXM80 GB · on demand · not bookable$1.95
- H100 NVL94 GB · on demand · not bookable$3.16
- H100 PCIe80 GB · on demand$2.73
- Ampere, Ada and older data-centre11
- A100 SXM 80GB80 GB · on demand$1.38
A100 PCIe 80GB80 GB · on demand$1.35- A100 40GB40 GB · on demand$1.40
- Ampere, Ada and older data-centre continued11
- L40S48 GB · on demand$1.50
- L4048 GB · on demand$1.00
L424 GB · on demand$0.95
A4048 GB · on demand$1.86
A3024 GB · on demand · not bookable$0.35
A1024 GB · on demand$1.29
A1616 GB · on demand$0.51
V10016 GB · on demand$2.34- Workstation7
- RTX PRO 600096 GB · on demand$2.19
RTX 6000 Ada48 GB · on demand · not bookable$0.60
- Workstation continued7
RTX A600048 GB · on demand$0.50
RTX A500024 GB · on demand$1.42
RTX 4000 Ada20 GB · on demand · not bookable$0.79
RTX A400016 GB · on demand$0.80
Quadro RTX 600024 GB · on demand · not bookable$0.69- Consumer2
- RTX 509032 GB · on demand · not bookable$0.65
- RTX 409024 GB · on demand$0.60
- AMD and other accelerators1
Gaudi 296 GB · on demand · not bookable$1.10
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.
Shadeform
2 h 14 m 03 s on H100 SXM
- GPU · $1.95 / h
- $4.36
- vCPU and RAM
- Included
- Storage
- Set per cloud, live prices via API only
- Egress
- Not published
- 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.
Shadeform
No stop state, billed until deleted.
GPUBank
Only the persistent disk, $0.03 per GB-month. Compute, IPv4 and scratch cost nothing.
04Where the GPUs run
15 countries against 4, and where they are.
Countries where Shadeform 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
Shadeform15
Australia
Canada
Finland
France
Germany
Iceland
India
Israel
Japan
Netherlands
Norway
Poland
Singapore
United Kingdom
United States
GPUBank4
- Paris
- Frankfurt
- Ashburn
- Singapore
Shadeform · 15 countriesGPUBank · 4 regions
05Paying and signing up
How each one takes your money.
Shadeform
Payments and sign-up
Payment methods
Cards
Bank transfer
No cryptoMinimum top-up Not published
To start
- 1Email and password
- 2Wallet top-up before API use
Billing modelPrepaid wallet; invoices via support
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.
| Shadeform | GPUBank | |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Not published | Not published |
| ISO 27001 | Not published | Not published |
| HIPAA | No | No |
| GDPR DPA | Not published | Published DPA, applies automatically |
| Availability target | None of its own; inherits each cloud's | 99.9 % monthly, per region |
| Status page | None found | Public status page |
| Support | Email, Slack, contact form, booked calls | 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 Shadeform home page captured on 29 September 2026, and GPUBank's live board. Cookie banners and chat bubbles are closed; nothing else is edited.
- 1The pricing page is shadeform.com/prices, with 'starting from' per-GPU-hour prices for 9 GPU types.
- 2Instance detail pages show the average, minimum and maximum price across clouds for the same GPU.
- 3The reserved capacity table lists B300 SXM6 and RTX PRO 6000 clusters with 12 to 48 month terms and no prices.
- 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
23 points, read off both sites.
GPUBank aheadShadeform aheadEven
| Criterion | GPUBank | Shadeform |
|---|---|---|
| Price and catalogue | ||
| H100 SXM, per GPU-hourThat listing was sold out in all listed regions on the check date, and no H100 SXM listing was bookable. | $1.85, all-in | From $1.95, 8-GPU node ($15.60 per hour) |
| Cheapest GPU-hourThe $0.15 RTX A4000 listing was sold out in all listed regions on the check date. | $0.23, RTX 4090 | $0.50 RTX A6000 bookable; $0.15 A4000 sold out |
| GPU models listed | 10 | 28Ahead |
| What the GPU price includes | vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4, traffic | vCPU, RAM, local disk of the reselling cloud |
| Billing | ||
| Billing granularity | Per second | Per second |
| Minimum charge | None | Not published |
| Stopped instance | Disk only | No stop state, billed until deleted |
| Persistent storageThe docs example is $0.0001 per GB-hour, about $0.072 per GB-month. | $0.03 per GB-month | Set per cloud, live prices via API only |
| Egress traffic | Included | Not published |
| Public IPv4 | Included | Not published |
| Billing model | Prepaid balance | Prepaid wallet; invoices via support |
| Payment and sign-up | ||
| Crypto payments | Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more | Not published |
| Card payments | No | Credit and debit cardsAhead |
| Minimum deposit | $25 | Not published |
| Platform | ||
| API and CLI | REST API, CLI, Python SDK | REST API; no CLI or SDK |
| Terraform | Official provider | Official provider |
| Serverless GPUs | No | No |
| Managed Kubernetes | No | On reserved clusters, at extra costAhead |
| Ready-made templates | 25 | User and featured templates |
| Interruptible or spot | Yes, 40 % off | On select types, prices via API only |
| GPUs per instance | Up to 8 | Up to 8; reserved clusters by quoteAhead |
| Multi-node interconnect | Not offered | Per cloud: NVLink, InfiniBand or RoCEAhead |
| Network and regions | ||
| Regions | 4 | 54 region labelsAhead |
| Countries | France, Germany, US, Singapore | 15Ahead |
| EU regions | Paris, Frankfurt | France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, FinlandAhead |
| Trust and support | ||
| Availability target | 99.9 % monthly | None of its own; inherits each cloud's |
| Compliance reportsBadges in its cloud directory belong to the reselling clouds. The trust center is gated. | None published | None of its own published |
| Public status page | Yes | None found |
| Support | Tickets from a $25 balance | Email, Slack, contact form, booked callsAhead |
09The right fit
Different needs. A clear choice.
What Shadeform does better
- 28 GPU models from 19 clouds in one catalogue and one API
- RTX A6000 from $0.50 and L4 from $0.95, models GPUBank does not list
- B300, GH200, H100 NVL and Gaudi 2 in the catalogue, which GPUBank does not list
- 54 region labels in 15 countries
- Spend existing credits by linking your own cloud accounts
Choose GPUBank if
- H100 SXM at $1.85 on one GPU, against $1.95 on a sold-out 8-GPU node
- RTX 4090 at $0.23 and L40S at $0.55, against $0.60 and $1.50 bookable
- Stop an instance and pay only for its disk; Shadeform has no stop state
- Traffic and one public IPv4 included, with published prices
- Crypto top-ups from $25; Shadeform publishes cards and invoices only
Moving from Shadeform takes an afternoon.
Shadeform instances are standard VMs or bare metal on the reselling clouds, so data and images move with standard tools. Volumes are tied to one cloud and region and cannot move, so copy the data out before deleting.
- 1Launch the same GPU on GPUBank with a persistent disk in the region you need.
- 2Copy data and models from the Shadeform instance with rsync over SSH, or push images to a registry.
- 3Run the same Docker image on GPUBank, then delete the Shadeform instance and its volume.
# 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. Shadeform's lowest H100 SXM listing is $1.95 per GPU-hour on an 8-GPU node, and it was sold out in every listed region on the check date, like every other H100 SXM listing. GPUBank charges $1.85 for one H100 SXM and $1.35 for an H100 PCIe, where Shadeform's cheapest bookable listing was $2.73 and its $1.66 listing was sold out.
No. Shadeform is a marketplace that resells instances from 19 other clouds, including Lambda, Nebius, Crusoe, Hyperstack and Vultr, and says it adds no fees or markup. Each instance inherits that cloud's hardware, network and SLA. GPUBank operates its own GPUs in Paris, Frankfurt, Ashburn and Singapore.
Nowhere among the GPUs both rent, counting only listings that could be booked on the check date. Its cheapest bookable H200 was $4.00, RTX PRO 6000 $2.19 and RTX 4090 $0.60, against $2.49, $1.15 and $0.23 on GPUBank. Lower listings, such as B200 at $3.74, H200 at $2.25 and RTX PRO 6000 at $0.99 on 8-GPU nodes, were sold out in every listed region. Shadeform also lists models GPUBank does not, such as the RTX A6000 from $0.50.
No. Shadeform's API has no stop state, so an instance runs until you delete it, and billing ends when it enters deleting. On GPUBank a stopped instance costs only its persistent disk, at $0.03 per GB-month.
Shadeform does not publish crypto payments. It lists credit and debit cards and invoice payments on request, and its terms say fees are non-refundable, with no refund under $500. GPUBank is paid from a USD balance topped up in Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and more than a dozen other coins.
Without. Every price on this page excludes VAT and sales tax, for Shadeform 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 Shadeform was read on its own pages or official documentation. Prices last checked on 29 September 2026.
- 01shadeform.com/All 274 GPU instance prices, specs, regions, availability
- 02shadeform.com/directory/instancesMarketplace listing, GPU type list
- 03shadeform.com/directory/instances/massedcompute/H100Cross-check of H100 prices across clouds
- 04shadeform.com/pricesNo fees/markup claim, starting-from prices
- 05shadeform.com/directory/cloudsCloud list and credentials of underlying providers
- 06shadeform.com/features/on-demand-instancesPer-second billing, region claims, GPU types
- 07shadeform.com/features/reserved-commitmentsReserved terms, cluster listings, Kubernetes at extra cost
- 08docs.shadeform.ai/getting-started/faqBilling model, invoices, SLA, support channels
- 09docs.shadeform.ai/getting-started/quickstartWallet top-up required before API key
- 10docs.shadeform.ai/getting-started/conceptsShade Cloud vs own cloud access, Docker and script launch
- 11docs.shadeform.ai/guides/spotinstancesSpot mode, per-second billing
- 12docs.shadeform.ai/guides/attachvolumeVolume constraints
- 13docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/volumes/volumes-typesVolume price unit
- 14docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/instances/instances-types.mdhourly_price is in cents
- 15docs.shadeform.ai/llms.txtAPI surface: instances, clusters, volumes, templates, SSH keys
- 16shadeform.com/terms-of-serviceLegal entity, non-refundable fees, 500 USD refund minimum, HIPAA stance, non-circumvention
- 17shadeform.com/privacy-policyCard payments via third-party processor, EU-US DPF
- 18trust.shadeform.comGated access
What we could not verify (8)
- Spot prices exist on select Shade Cloud instance types but are only returned by the authenticated /instances/types API
- Payment methods beyond credit/debit cards and invoice payments (PayPal, crypto) not published
- Minimum wallet top-up, free credits and minimum charge not published
- Egress and IPv4 pricing not published
- Live volume storage prices per cloud (docs show example values only)
- Founding year, HQ city and funding not stated on the official pages read
- Display names of clouds with ids 'horizon' and 'amaya' (absent from the public cloud directory)
- Instance prices were read from the catalogue embedded in the marketplace page HTML (raw/home.html); rendered text shows only the first 6 listings, but the /prices 'starting from' values and the H100 detail page match the embedded data
In short
GPUBank vs Shadeform, 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
- Shadeform: From $1.95, 8-GPU node ($15.60 per hour)
GPUBank: $1.85, all-in - Cheapest GPU-hour
- Shadeform: $0.50 RTX A6000 bookable; $0.15 A4000 sold out
GPUBank: $0.23, RTX 4090 - Billing granularity
- Shadeform: Per second
GPUBank: Per second - Stopped instance
- Shadeform: No stop state, billed until deleted
GPUBank: Disk only - Persistent storage
- Shadeform: Set per cloud, live prices via API only
GPUBank: $0.03 per GB-month - Egress traffic
- Shadeform: Not published
GPUBank: Included - Crypto payments
- Shadeform: Not published
GPUBank: Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more - Card payments
- Shadeform: Credit and debit cards
GPUBank: No - Minimum deposit
- Shadeform: Not published
GPUBank: $25 - GPU models listed
- Shadeform: 28
GPUBank: 10 - Regions
- Shadeform: 54 region labels
GPUBank: 4 - Serverless GPUs
- Shadeform: No
GPUBank: No - Availability target
- Shadeform: None of its own; inherits each cloud's
GPUBank: 99.9 % monthly - Compliance reports
- Shadeform: None of its own published
GPUBank: None published - Support
- Shadeform: Email, Slack, contact form, booked calls
GPUBank: Tickets from a $25 balance - Headquarters
- Shadeform: United States
GPUBank: Tallinn, Estonia
How this page was made
Every price and policy of Shadeform 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. Shadeform, its logo and its website belong to their owner and are shown only to identify the service compared. GPUBank is not affiliated with Shadeform.
