What is the difference between Akash Network and Sesterce?

Akash Network 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: Akash Network 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 Akash Network 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 29 different GPU models across both Akash Network and Sesterce, with 0 models available from both providers.

Akash Network vs Sesterce

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

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Akash Network GPUs

Sesterce GPUs

Direct Comparisons

Average Price Difference: $1.03/hour between comparable GPUs

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 29Both available: 5Akash Network: 17Sesterce: 17

Showing 15 of 29 GPUs

Last updated: 10/6/2026, 6:24:49 PM

GPU Model ↑	Akash Network 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: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$2.20/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $2.20/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Akash NetworkSesterce	$1.33/hr★ Best	$2.19/hr 8x GPU	↓$0.86(39.2%)	Akash Network Sesterce API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Akash Network $1.33/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce $2.19/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/6/2026 Price Difference:↓$0.86(39.2%) Akash Network Sesterce API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$2.19/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $2.19/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
B200 180GB VRAM • Akash Network	$5.00/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Akash Network
B200 180GB VRAM • Akash Network $5.00/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Akash Network
GTX 1070 Ti 8GB VRAM • Akash Network	$0.14/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Akash Network
GTX 1070 Ti 8GB VRAM • Akash Network $0.14/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Akash Network
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Akash NetworkSesterce	$2.72/hr★ Best	$3.63/hr 2x GPU	↓$0.91(25.1%)	Akash Network Sesterce API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Akash Network $2.72/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce $3.63/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/6/2026 Price Difference:↓$0.91(25.1%) Akash Network 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: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Akash Network	$6.00/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Akash Network
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Akash Network $6.00/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Akash Network
L4 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.04/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L4 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.04/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L40 40GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.09/hr★ Best 2x GPU	—	Sesterce API
L40 40GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.09/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
RTX 3060 12GB VRAM • Akash Network	$0.14/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Akash Network
RTX 3060 12GB VRAM • Akash Network $0.14/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Akash Network
RTX 3060 Ti 8GB VRAM • Akash Network	$0.14/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Akash Network
RTX 3060 Ti 8GB VRAM • Akash Network $0.14/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Akash Network

A10 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.42/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A10 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.42/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$2.20/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $2.20/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Akash NetworkSesterce	$1.33/hr★ Best	$2.19/hr 8x GPU	↓$0.86(39.2%)	Akash Network Sesterce API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Akash Network $1.33/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce $2.19/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/6/2026 Price Difference:↓$0.86(39.2%) Akash Network Sesterce API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$2.19/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $2.19/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
B200 180GB VRAM • Akash Network	$5.00/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Akash Network
B200 180GB VRAM • Akash Network $5.00/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Akash Network
GTX 1070 Ti 8GB VRAM • Akash Network	$0.14/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Akash Network
GTX 1070 Ti 8GB VRAM • Akash Network $0.14/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Akash Network
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Akash NetworkSesterce	$2.72/hr★ Best	$3.63/hr 2x GPU	↓$0.91(25.1%)	Akash Network Sesterce API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Akash Network $2.72/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce $3.63/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/6/2026 Price Difference:↓$0.91(25.1%) Akash Network 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: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Akash Network	$6.00/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Akash Network
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Akash Network $6.00/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Akash Network
L4 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.04/hr★ Best	—	Sesterce API
L4 24GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.04/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
L40 40GB VRAM • Sesterce	Not Available	$1.09/hr★ Best 2x GPU	—	Sesterce API
L40 40GB VRAM • Not Available Sesterce $1.09/hour 2x GPU configuration Updated: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Sesterce API
RTX 3060 12GB VRAM • Akash Network	$0.14/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Akash Network
RTX 3060 12GB VRAM • Akash Network $0.14/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Akash Network
RTX 3060 Ti 8GB VRAM • Akash Network	$0.14/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Akash Network
RTX 3060 Ti 8GB VRAM • Akash Network $0.14/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Akash Network

Features Comparison

Akash Network

Automated Bidding
Independent infrastructure providers automatically submit competitive bids in real time for workload requests.
No Refactoring Required
Applications running in containers can be directly migrated to the Akash platform without code changes.
1-Click Templates
Pre-configured environments for popular AI models can be launched quickly.
Global Access to Hardware
Enterprise-grade GPUs and consumer-grade GPUs are accessible for various compute needs.
Operational Autonomy
Users maintain control over network routing and data residency.

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

Akash Network

Advantages

Decentralized infrastructure reduces dependency on single providers.
Potential for lower costs compared to traditional cloud providers.
Supports a wide variety of containerized applications.

Considerations

Limited awareness compared to larger cloud providers.
Potential complexity in understanding the decentralized model for new users.

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
European data residency across French sites, with hydro, nuclear, and solar energy under long-term PPAs

Considerations

Infrastructure concentrated in France, with no North American or Asia-Pacific regions
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

Akash Network

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

Akash Network

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

Akash Network

Get Started

1
Sign Up
Create an account on the Akash console.
2
Choose a Deployment Method
Select to launch an AI workload or deploy a container.
3
Configure Resources
Specify required resources such as GPUs, memory, and region.
4
Deploy
Finalize deployment and authorize the request.

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

Akash Network

Global Regions

Global availability for GPU resources

Support

Documentation available online; support requests can be initiated through the platform.

Sesterce

Global Regions

French footprint: AI factory sites at Bosquel (Hauts-de-France) and Valence, plus a Paris cloud region hosted at Equinix; several on-demand GPU types are offered in more than one region

Support

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