GPUBank vs Vultr
Vultr is a US developer cloud, run by The Constant Company, LLC, with 33 regions. It sells Cloud GPU virtual machines (A16, A40, L40S, often as fractional slices) and bare-metal servers with up to 8 accelerators. Its H100 is only sold as an 8-GPU bare-metal server at $23.92 per hour, or $2.99 per GPU-hour; GPUBank rents a single H100 SXM at $1.85. Vultr has more regions and compliance reports; GPUBank bills by the second and stops billing compute when an instance is stopped.
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
Vultr
West Palm Beach, United States
H100 SXM
$2.99 / h
- 33 regions in 20 countries
- Fractional A16 slices from $0.059 per hour
- B200, GH200 and AMD MI300X, MI325X and MI355X bare metal
Vultr
Developer cloud
United States25 points compared31 of their pages readprices last checked on 29 September 2026page updated 2 November 2026
The verdict
More regions, AMD Instinct and compliance reports at Vultr. Lower GPU prices and per-second billing at GPUBank.
Vultr fits teams that want fractional GPUs in many regions, B200 or AMD Instinct bare metal, managed Kubernetes and SOC 2 Type II or ISO 27001 reports. For the GPUs both of us list, GPUBank costs 38 to 67 % less per GPU-hour, and it rents one H100 where Vultr sells a full 8-GPU server. Vultr bills by the hour with a one-hour minimum and keeps billing a stopped server in full; GPUBank bills by the second and keeps only the disk on the bill. On the check date, Vultr's API listed no region for most of its high-end bare-metal plans and flagged them as not orderable on demand.
VultrGPUBank 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 | Vultr per hour | GPUBank per hour | Difference | 100 h at Vultr | 100 h at GPUBank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 B200 SXM180 GB |
$8.50 | $4.15 | −51 % | $850.00 | $415.00 |
 H100 SXM80 GB |
$2.99 | $1.85 | −38 % | $299.00 | $185.00 |
 A100 SXM80 GB |
$2.80 | $0.95 | −66 % | $280.00 | $95.00 |
 L40S48 GB |
$1.67 | $0.55 | −67 % | $167.00 | $55.00 |
 MI300X192 GB |
$3.99 | $1.65 | −59 % | $399.00 | $165.00 |
A fine-tune, 40 h on an H100 SXM
Vultr
$119.60
GPUBank
$74.00
Saves $45.60 at GPUBank (−38 %)
An inference box, a month, 720 h, on an L40S
Vultr
$1,202.40
GPUBank
$396.00
Saves $806.40 at GPUBank (−67 %)
A training run, 100 h on an A100 SXM
Vultr
$280.00
GPUBank
$95.00
Saves $185.00 at GPUBank (−66 %)
02Their catalogue
Every GPU Vultr lists.
11 GPU models listed by Vultr, each at its lowest public price per GPU-hour. 5 of them are also rented at GPUBank (in blue).
- B200192 GB · on demand$8.50
GH20096 GB · on demand$1.99- H100 SXM80 GB · on demand$2.99
- A100 SXM 80GB80 GB · on demand$2.80
A100 PCIe 80GB80 GB · on demand$2.40- L40S48 GB · on demand$1.67
A4024 GB · on demand$1.71
A16128 GB · on demand$0.47- MI355X288 GB · on demand$2.59
- MI325X256 GB · on demand$4.62
- MI300X192 GB · on demand$3.99
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.
Vultr
2 h 14 m 03 s on H100 SXM
- GPU · $2.99 / h
- $6.68
- vCPU and RAM
- Included
- Storage
- Not published
- Egress
- Allowance plus 2 TB, then $0.01 per GB
- Public IPv4
- Not published
- Billing granularity
- Per hour
- Minimum charge
- One hour
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.
Vultr
Billed in full until destroyed.
GPUBank
Only the persistent disk, $0.03 per GB-month. Compute, IPv4 and scratch cost nothing.
04Where the GPUs run
20 countries against 4, and where they are.
Countries where Vultr 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
Vultr20
Australia
Brazil
Canada
Chile
France
Germany
India
Israel
Italy
Japan
Mexico
Netherlands
Poland
Singapore
South Africa
South Korea
Spain
Sweden
United Kingdom- United States
GPUBank4
- Paris
- Frankfurt
- Ashburn
- Singapore
Vultr · 20 countriesGPUBank · 4 regions
05Paying and signing up
How each one takes your money.
Vultr
Payments and sign-up
Payment methods
Cards
Bank transferCrypto: BTC, ETH, USDC and six more via BitPay
Minimum top-up None with a card; small deposit otherwise
To start
- 1Email and password
- 2Payment method
Billing modelPrepaid or postpaid
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.
| Vultr | GPUBank | |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Not published |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | Not published |
| HIPAA | Yes | No |
| GDPR DPA | Not published | Published DPA, applies automatically |
| Availability target | Not published | 99.9 % monthly, per region |
| Status page | status.vultr.com | Public status page |
| Support | Tickets | 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 Vultr pricing page as the Wayback Machine archived it on 26 September 2026, and GPUBank's live board. Cookie banners and chat bubbles are closed; nothing else is edited.
- 1The public API returns hourly and monthly prices for every plan without an account.
- 2The product and pricing pages on www.vultr.com returned a Cloudflare challenge to automated readers.
- 3The Cloud GPU docs still describe an A100 vGPU variant that is no longer in the plan list.
- 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 aheadVultr aheadEven
| Criterion | GPUBank | Vultr |
|---|---|---|
| Price and catalogue | ||
| H100 SXM, per GPU-hourH100 form factor is not stated in Vultr's API. The plan listed no region on the check date. | $1.85, all-in | $2.99, 8-GPU bare metal only ($23.92 per hour) |
| Cheapest GPU-hourA 1/8 A16 slice with 2 GB VRAM costs $0.059 per hour. | $0.23, RTX 4090 | $0.47 per GPU-hour, A16 |
| GPU models listed | 10 | 11Ahead |
| What the GPU price includesBoth include compute and a local disk. Vultr includes a monthly transfer allowance, not unlimited traffic. | vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4, traffic | vCPU, RAM, local disk, bandwidth allowance |
| Billing | ||
| Billing granularity | Per second | Per hour |
| Minimum charge | None | One hour |
| Stopped instance | Disk only | Billed in full until destroyed |
| Persistent storageBlock Storage price was not readable. Snapshots cost $0.05 per GB-month. | $0.03 per GB-month | Not published |
| Egress traffic | Included | Allowance plus 2 TB, then $0.01 per GB |
| Public IPv4 | Included | Not published |
| Billing model | Prepaid balance | Prepaid or postpaid |
| Payment and sign-up | ||
| Crypto payments | Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more | BTC, ETH, USDC and six more via BitPay |
| Card payments | No | Cards, PayPal, Alipay, UnionPay, wireAhead |
| Minimum depositThe deposit for non-card methods is not stated. | $25 | None with a card; small deposit otherwiseAhead |
| Platform | ||
| API and CLI | REST API, CLI, Python SDK | REST API and official CLI |
| Terraform | Official provider | Official provider |
| Serverless GPUs | No | Serverless Inference, token-pricedAhead |
| Managed Kubernetes | No | Managed (VKE)Ahead |
| Ready-made templates | 25 | Marketplace apps and GPU-enabled images |
| Interruptible or spot | Yes, 40 % off | Preemptible bare-metal prices, terms not documented |
| GPUs per instance | Up to 8 | Up to 8 |
| Multi-node interconnect | Not offered | Not published |
| Network and regions | ||
| Regions | 4 | 33Ahead |
| Countries | France, Germany, US, Singapore | 20Ahead |
| EU regionsOn the check date the API listed GPU plans only in US and Asian regions. | Paris, Frankfurt | 8 European countries, no GPU plan listed there |
| Trust and support | ||
| Availability targetThe SLA page was blocked to readers on the check date. | 99.9 % monthly | Not published |
| Compliance reports | None published | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAAAhead |
| Public status page | Yes | status.vultr.com |
| Support | Tickets from a $25 balance | Tickets |
09The right fit
Different needs. A clear choice.
What Vultr does better
- 33 regions in 20 countries
- Fractional A16 slices from $0.059 per hour
- B200, GH200 and AMD MI300X, MI325X and MI355X bare metal
- SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001 and HIPAA reports in the console
- Managed Kubernetes (VKE) and a serverless inference product
Choose GPUBank if
- H100 SXM at $1.85 per GPU-hour on a single GPU, against $2.99 on an 8-GPU server
- Per-second billing, no one-hour minimum
- Stop an instance and pay only for its disk
- All traffic and one public IPv4 included
- Top up from $25 in crypto, with bonus credit from $50
Moving from Vultr takes an afternoon.
Vultr meters egress at $0.01 per GB beyond the plan allowance and the 2 TB free per account, so large datasets have a small exit cost. Stopped Vultr servers keep billing, so destroy them once the copy is done.
- 1Launch the same GPU on GPUBank with a persistent disk in Paris, Frankfurt, Ashburn or Singapore.
- 2Copy data and models with rsync over SSH from the Vultr server to the GPUBank disk.
- 3Run your Docker image or a matching template, check the job, then destroy the Vultr server.
# 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. Vultr sells the H100 only as an 8-GPU bare-metal server at $23.92 per hour, which is $2.99 per GPU-hour. GPUBank rents a single H100 SXM at $1.85 per GPU-hour with vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4 and traffic included. A 40-hour fine-tune costs $74 on GPUBank against $119.60 at Vultr's per-GPU rate.
Not from the current API catalogue. Vultr lists the H100 only in an 8-GPU bare-metal plan, flagged as not orderable on demand and with no region on the check date. GPUBank rents 1 to 8 GPUs per instance.
Yes. Vultr's docs say stopped Cloud GPU and bare-metal servers keep paying compute, storage and IP until destroyed, billed by the hour. A stopped GPUBank instance costs only its persistent disk, at $0.03 per GB-month.
Yes. Vultr takes BTC, BCH, ETH, DOGE, PAX, BUSD, LTC, USDC and GUSD through BitPay, plus cards, PayPal, Alipay, UnionPay and wire. GPUBank takes only crypto, including Bitcoin, USDT and Ethereum, from $25, and asks for no card.
Vultr, with 33 regions in 20 countries against GPUBank's 4. On the check date, though, the API listed GPU plans only in some US and Asian regions, and most GPU plans showed no region at all. GPUBank has GPUs in Paris, Frankfurt, Ashburn and Singapore.
Without. Every price on this page excludes VAT and sales tax, for Vultr 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 Vultr was read on its own pages or official documentation. Prices last checked on 29 September 2026.
- 01api.vultr.com/v2/plans?type=vcg&per_page=500Cloud GPU prices, specs, locations
- 02api.vultr.com/v2/plans?type=all&per_page=500confirms 15 GPU VM plans among 151
- 03api.vultr.com/v2/plans-metal?per_page=500bare-metal GPU prices (on-demand and preemptible fields), specs, locations
- 04api.vultr.com/v2/regions?per_page=500regions and countries
- 05docs.vultr.com/products/compute/instances/cloud-gpu/explore-gpu-variantsvGPU vs passthrough, GPU memory
- 06docs.vultr.com/products/compute/instances/bare-metal/explore-gpu-variantsbare-metal GPU list incl. A100 PCIe/SXM, B200, MI355X
- 07docs.vultr.com/support/platform/billing/how-am-i-billed-for-my-servershourly billing, 730/672 h caps, stopped servers billed
- 08docs.vultr.com/products/compute/instances/cloud-gpu/faqstopped charges, no upgrade, SSH access
- 09docs.vultr.com/products/compute/instances/bare-metal/faqstopped charges, custom OS via iPXE
- 10docs.vultr.com/support/platform/billing/do-stopped-bare-metal-servers-incur-chargesstopped billing
- 11docs.vultr.com/support/platform/billing/what-payment-methods-do-you-acceptcards, BitPay coins, PayPal, Alipay, UnionPay
- 12docs.vultr.com/platform/billing/make-account-paymentswire transfer, crypto, gift code
- 13docs.vultr.com/platform/billing/faqcard authorization hold, taxes, USD invoices
- 14docs.vultr.com/platform/create-an-accountsign-up requirements, 0 USD card link, free credits
- 15docs.vultr.com/platform/billing/manage-account-limitsinstance and cost limits, increase requests
- 16docs.vultr.com/support/platform/billing/how-are-bandwidth-caps-calculated2 TB free per account, pooled bandwidth
- 17docs.vultr.com/support/platform/billing/what-is-the-bandwidth-overage-rate0.01 USD/GB overage
- 18docs.vultr.com/support/platform/billing/how-is-object-storage-billedobject storage tiers
What we could not verify (9)
- Meaning of the bare-metal "preemptible" price fields (interruption rules, notice, or commitment): not documented on any docs.vultr.com page found; vultr.com pricing pages blocked
- H100 form factor: API/docs say NVIDIA H100 only; SXM appears only on blocked vultr.com product pages
- Reserved or committed-term GPU pricing: not readable (vultr.com blocked)
- Block Storage per-GB price and IPv4 pricing: not in docs pages read; vultr.com/pricing blocked
- SLA terms: www.vultr.com/legal/sla returned HTTP 403, so no uptime percentage is recorded
- Company HQ, founding year and funding: not read on an official page
- Support tiers and response times: not documented in docs read
- Serverless Inference pricing (token-based product): not captured
- H200 and other GPUs possibly listed on vultr.com product pages but absent from the public API: not verifiable
In short
GPUBank vs Vultr, 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
- Vultr: $2.99, 8-GPU bare metal only ($23.92 per hour)
GPUBank: $1.85, all-in - Cheapest GPU-hour
- Vultr: $0.47 per GPU-hour, A16
GPUBank: $0.23, RTX 4090 - Billing granularity
- Vultr: Per hour
GPUBank: Per second - Stopped instance
- Vultr: Billed in full until destroyed
GPUBank: Disk only - Persistent storage
- Vultr: Not published
GPUBank: $0.03 per GB-month - Egress traffic
- Vultr: Allowance plus 2 TB, then $0.01 per GB
GPUBank: Included - Crypto payments
- Vultr: BTC, ETH, USDC and six more via BitPay
GPUBank: Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more - Card payments
- Vultr: Cards, PayPal, Alipay, UnionPay, wire
GPUBank: No - Minimum deposit
- Vultr: None with a card; small deposit otherwise
GPUBank: $25 - GPU models listed
- Vultr: 11
GPUBank: 10 - Regions
- Vultr: 33
GPUBank: 4 - Serverless GPUs
- Vultr: Serverless Inference, token-priced
GPUBank: No - Availability target
- Vultr: Not published
GPUBank: 99.9 % monthly - Compliance reports
- Vultr: SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA
GPUBank: None published - Support
- Vultr: Tickets
GPUBank: Tickets from a $25 balance - Headquarters
- Vultr: West Palm Beach, United States
GPUBank: Tallinn, Estonia
How this page was made
Every price and policy of Vultr 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. Vultr, its logo and its website belong to their owner and are shown only to identify the service compared. GPUBank is not affiliated with Vultr.
