# 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.

- Page: https://gpubank.io/compare/gpubank-vs-vultr
- Prices last checked on 29 September 2026, on Vultr's own pages (sources below). Page updated 2 November 2026.
- Vultr: https://www.vultr.com, headquartered in West Palm Beach, 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

**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.

Score over 25 points: GPUBank ahead on 7, even on 10, Vultr ahead on 8.

## Key facts

| Criterion | Vultr | GPUBank |
|---|---|---|
| H100 SXM, per GPU-hour | $2.99, 8-GPU bare metal only ($23.92 per hour) | $1.85, all-in |
| Cheapest GPU-hour | $0.47 per GPU-hour, A16 | $0.23, RTX 4090 |
| Billing granularity | Per hour | Per second |
| Stopped instance | Billed in full until destroyed | Disk only |
| Persistent storage | Not published | $0.03 per GB-month |
| Egress traffic | Allowance plus 2 TB, then $0.01 per GB | Included |
| Crypto payments | BTC, ETH, USDC and six more via BitPay | Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more |
| Card payments | Cards, PayPal, Alipay, UnionPay, wire | No |
| Minimum deposit | None with a card; small deposit otherwise | $25 |
| GPU models listed | 11 | 10 |
| Regions | 33 | 4 |
| Serverless GPUs | Serverless Inference, token-priced | No |
| Availability target | Not published | 99.9 % monthly |
| Compliance reports | SOC 2 Type II, ISO 27001, HIPAA | None published |
| Support | Tickets | Tickets from a $25 balance |
| Headquarters | West Palm Beach, United States | Tallinn, Estonia |

## Same GPUs, price per GPU-hour (USD, excl. VAT)

| GPU | Vultr | GPUBank | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| B200 SXM | $8.50 (on demand) | $4.15 | -51 % |
| H100 SXM | $2.99 (on demand) | $1.85 | -38 % |
| A100 SXM | $2.80 (on demand) | $0.95 | -66 % |
| L40S | $1.67 (on demand) | $0.55 | -67 % |
| MI300X | $3.99 (on demand) | $1.65 | -59 % |

## When to pick Vultr

- 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

## When to pick GPUBank

- 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

## Questions

### Is GPUBank cheaper than Vultr for an H100?

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.

### Can I rent a single H100 on Vultr?

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.

### Does Vultr charge for a stopped GPU server?

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.

### Do Vultr and GPUBank both accept crypto?

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.

### Which has more regions, Vultr or GPUBank?

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.

### Are these prices with or without VAT?

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

- https://api.vultr.com/v2/plans?type=vcg&per_page=500: Cloud GPU prices, specs, locations
- https://api.vultr.com/v2/plans?type=all&per_page=500: confirms 15 GPU VM plans among 151
- https://api.vultr.com/v2/plans-metal?per_page=500: bare-metal GPU prices (on-demand and preemptible fields), specs, locations
- https://api.vultr.com/v2/regions?per_page=500: regions and countries
- https://docs.vultr.com/products/compute/instances/cloud-gpu/explore-gpu-variants: vGPU vs passthrough, GPU memory
- https://docs.vultr.com/products/compute/instances/bare-metal/explore-gpu-variants: bare-metal GPU list incl. A100 PCIe/SXM, B200, MI355X
- https://docs.vultr.com/support/platform/billing/how-am-i-billed-for-my-servers: hourly billing, 730/672 h caps, stopped servers billed
- https://docs.vultr.com/products/compute/instances/cloud-gpu/faq: stopped charges, no upgrade, SSH access
- https://docs.vultr.com/products/compute/instances/bare-metal/faq: stopped charges, custom OS via iPXE
- https://docs.vultr.com/support/platform/billing/do-stopped-bare-metal-servers-incur-charges: stopped billing
- https://docs.vultr.com/support/platform/billing/what-payment-methods-do-you-accept: cards, BitPay coins, PayPal, Alipay, UnionPay
- https://docs.vultr.com/platform/billing/make-account-payments: wire transfer, crypto, gift code
- https://docs.vultr.com/platform/billing/faq: card authorization hold, taxes, USD invoices
- https://docs.vultr.com/platform/create-an-account: sign-up requirements, 0 USD card link, free credits
- https://docs.vultr.com/platform/billing/manage-account-limits: instance and cost limits, increase requests
- https://docs.vultr.com/support/platform/billing/how-are-bandwidth-caps-calculated: 2 TB free per account, pooled bandwidth
- https://docs.vultr.com/support/platform/billing/what-is-the-bandwidth-overage-rate: 0.01 USD/GB overage
- https://docs.vultr.com/support/platform/billing/how-is-object-storage-billed: object storage tiers

Prices change: check both providers before buying. Vultr is a trademark of its owner; GPUBank is not affiliated with Vultr.