What is the difference between Akamai Cloud and Sesterce?

Akamai Cloud and Sesterce are both cloud GPU providers offering different pricing models, features, and GPU availability. Use our comparison tool to see real-time pricing and feature differences.

Which is cheaper: Akamai Cloud or Sesterce?

Pricing varies by GPU model and usage requirements. Check our real-time comparison table to find the best deals for your specific needs.

Can I switch between Akamai Cloud and Sesterce?

Yes, both providers offer flexible cloud GPU services. However, consider factors like data transfer costs, setup time, and specific features when switching between providers.

How many GPU models are available for comparison?

We track pricing for 20 different GPU models across both Akamai Cloud and Sesterce, with 0 models available from both providers.

Akamai Cloud vs Sesterce

Compare GPU pricing between Akamai Cloud and Sesterce. Find the best rates for AI training, inference, and ML workloads.

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

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Direct Comparisons

Average Price Difference: $0.85/hour between comparable GPUs

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 20Both available: 1Akamai Cloud: 1Sesterce: 20

Showing 15 of 20 GPUs

Last updated: 11/7/2026, 1:01:56 PM

GPU Model ↑	Akamai Cloud Price	Sesterce Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A10 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.42/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A10 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.42/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.49/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.49/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.49/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Sesterce API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.49/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.54/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.54/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A40 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$2.05/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A40 48GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $2.05/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
B200 180GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$7.17/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
B200 180GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $7.17/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$2.75/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $2.75/hour Updated: 11/6/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
H200 141GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$4.40/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Sesterce API
H200 141GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $4.40/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L4 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.04/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L4 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.04/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L40 40GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.97/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L40 40GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.97/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.97/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.97/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
RTX 4000 Ada 20GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.87/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
RTX 4000 Ada 20GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.87/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.66/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.66/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
RTX 5090 32GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.71/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
RTX 5090 32GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.71/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
RTX 6000 Ada 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.07/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
RTX 6000 Ada 48GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.07/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API

A10 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.42/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A10 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.42/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.49/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.49/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.49/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Sesterce API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.49/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.54/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.54/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A40 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$2.05/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A40 48GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $2.05/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
B200 180GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$7.17/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
B200 180GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $7.17/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$2.75/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $2.75/hour Updated: 11/6/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
H200 141GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$4.40/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Sesterce API
H200 141GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $4.40/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L4 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.04/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L4 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.04/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L40 40GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.97/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L40 40GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.97/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.97/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.97/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
RTX 4000 Ada 20GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.87/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
RTX 4000 Ada 20GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.87/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.66/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.66/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
RTX 5090 32GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$0.71/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
RTX 5090 32GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $0.71/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
RTX 6000 Ada 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.07/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
RTX 6000 Ada 48GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.07/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API

Features Comparison

Akamai Cloud

RTX-Class GPU Plans
Blackwell Server Edition, Ada and Quadro RTX cards offered as GPU Linodes with dedicated vCPU cores
Multi-GPU Plans
Plans carry 1 to 8 RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell cards, with vNUMA exposed on the 8-card plans, and 1 to 4 cards on RTX 4000 Ada and Quadro RTX 6000 plans
Multiple Regions
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell plans are listed in 20 Akamai Cloud regions across Europe, Asia and North America; RTX 4000 Ada and Quadro RTX 6000 plans are listed in fewer

Sesterce

Vertically Integrated AI Factories
Each site is operated as a single system, owning the hand-off between energy, facility, silicon, network fabric, and orchestration
Sovereign European Infrastructure
French sites offering data residency, controlled energy origin, and supply-chain control, drawing on 2 GW of hydro, nuclear, and solar capacity secured under long-term PPAs
SoftBank Joint Venture at Bosquel
A joint venture with SoftBank Group to develop a 1 GW AI data center campus at Bosquel in Hauts-de-France
Sesterce OS Control Plane
Single console and API to provision clusters, orchestrate training, serve inference, and meter usage across every Sesterce site, Slurm and Kubernetes native
High-Density Liquid Cooling
Purpose-built Tier III+ facilities with direct-to-chip liquid cooling at up to 150 kW per rack, rated at PUE 1.12 under full AI load
InfiniBand Fabric
Non-blocking NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand at 800 Gb/s with rail-optimized topology and native RDMA

Pros & Cons

Akamai Cloud

Advantages

Predictable flat-rate pricing model
Global region coverage inherited from the Akamai network
Blackwell-generation RTX PRO 6000 available alongside older RTX SKUs

Considerations

Catalog focused on RTX cards; H100/H200/B200 are not part of the public lineup
RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell and Quadro RTX 6000 plans are listed as limited deployment availability
A deposit may be required to deploy GPU Linodes on new or low-spend accounts

Sesterce

Advantages

Broad on-demand catalog running from Blackwell B300 and H200 down to previous-generation NVIDIA cards, plus Intel Gaudi 2
On-demand, spot, and reserved billing modes on the same clusters
VM and bare-metal deployment with single- and multi-GPU (up to 8x) configurations
AI factory capacity at French sites, with hydro, nuclear, and solar energy under long-term PPAs

Considerations

On-demand instances run in regions across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, so a self-serve instance is not necessarily hosted in France
Rack-scale GB300 NVL72 and B200 capacity is contracted as reserved AI factory capacity rather than sold from the self-serve catalog
The newest and largest accelerators (B300, H200, Gaudi 2) are only sold as 8-GPU nodes, with no smaller self-serve size

Compute Services

Akamai Cloud

Sesterce

Compute

On-demand VMs and bare-metal servers launched with no commitment

Clusters

Dedicated multi-node GPU clusters ranging from around 100 to 15,000 GPUs

AI Inference

Managed inference instances for serving models alongside GPU compute

Pricing Options

Akamai Cloud

Hourly Billing

GPU Linode plans are listed with hourly rates; review the pricing page for the full plan list

Sesterce

On-Demand

Pay-per-second usage with no commitment on VMs and bare-metal servers

Spot

Discounted interruptible capacity, filterable as a spot offer in the compute catalog

Reserved Capacity

Committed multi-megawatt cluster capacity contracted for frontier-scale workloads

Credit-based Billing

Pre-funded account balance system for streamlined resource management

Getting Started

Akamai Cloud

Get Started

1
Create an account
Sign up at the Akamai Cloud / Linode console
2
Choose a GPU Linode plan
Select RTX 4000 Ada, Quadro RTX 6000 or RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell with the desired GPU count
3
Deploy and connect
Provision the instance via Cloud Manager, CLI or API and connect over SSH

Sesterce

Get Started

1
Create Account
Sign up for Sesterce Cloud platform access
2
Add Credits
Fund your account with credits for pay-as-you-go billing
3
Launch Instance
Choose your GPU type and configuration, launch in just a few clicks or via the CLI and API

Support & Global Availability

Akamai Cloud

Global Regions

GPU plans are listed in selected Akamai Cloud regions in North America, Europe and Asia, varying by GPU; RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell has the widest list

Support

Documentation, a community forum, and Akamai compute support

Sesterce

Global Regions

AI factory sites at Bosquel (Hauts-de-France) and Valence, plus a Paris cloud region hosted at Equinix; the self-serve on-demand catalog lists regions across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific

Support

Documentation and API reference, self-service console with help and requests, REST API and CLI, contact sales for reserved capacity