What is the difference between Anthropic and Crusoe?

Anthropic and Crusoe 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: Anthropic or Crusoe?

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 Anthropic and Crusoe?

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 7 different GPU models across both Anthropic and Crusoe, with 0 models available from both providers.

Anthropic vs Crusoe GPU & LLM API Pricing 2026

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 7Both available: 0Anthropic: 0Crusoe: 7

Showing 7 of 7 GPUs

Last updated: 8/12/2026, 4:51:47 AM

GPU Model ↑	Anthropic Price	Crusoe Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$2.00/hr★ Best	—	Crusoe
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $2.00/hour Updated: 8/10/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$1.45/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $1.45/hour Updated: 8/11/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
A40 48GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$1.10/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
A40 48GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $1.10/hour Updated: 8/11/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$3.90/hr★ Best	—	Crusoe
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $3.90/hour Updated: 8/10/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe
H200 141GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$4.29/hr★ Best	—	Crusoe
H200 141GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $4.29/hour Updated: 8/10/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe
L40S 48GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$1.45/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $1.45/hour Updated: 8/11/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$3.45/hr★ Best	—	Crusoe
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $3.45/hour Updated: 8/10/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe

A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$2.00/hr★ Best	—	Crusoe
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $2.00/hour Updated: 8/10/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$1.45/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $1.45/hour Updated: 8/11/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
A40 48GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$1.10/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
A40 48GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $1.10/hour Updated: 8/11/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$3.90/hr★ Best	—	Crusoe
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $3.90/hour Updated: 8/10/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe
H200 141GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$4.29/hr★ Best	—	Crusoe
H200 141GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $4.29/hour Updated: 8/10/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe
L40S 48GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$1.45/hr★ Best	—	Shadeform API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $1.45/hour Updated: 8/11/2026 ★Best Price Shadeform API
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$3.45/hr★ Best	—	Crusoe
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $3.45/hour Updated: 8/10/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe

LLM API Pricing Comparison

Total models: 24Both available: 0Anthropic: 11Crusoe: 13

Showing 15 of 24 models

Prices per 1M tokens · Last updated: 8/12/2026, 4:51:47 AM

Model ↑	Anthropic	Crusoe	Input Diff ↕
Claude Fable 5 Anthropic	$10.00 in $50.00 out	Not available	—
Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic	$1.00 in $5.00 out	Not available	—
Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic	$15.00 in $75.00 out	Not available	—
Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic	$5.00 in $25.00 out	Not available	—
Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic	$5.00 in $25.00 out	Not available	—
Claude Opus 4.7 Anthropic	$5.00 in $25.00 out	Not available	—
Claude Opus 4.8 Anthropic	$5.00 in $25.00 out	Not available	—
Claude Opus 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) Anthropic	$5.00 in $25.00 out	Not available	—
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic	$3.00 in $15.00 out	Not available	—
Claude Sonnet 4.6 Anthropic	$3.00 in $15.00 out	Not available	—
Claude Sonnet 5 (Adaptive Reasoning, Max Effort) Anthropic	$2.00 in $10.00 out	Not available	—
DeepSeek V3 DeepSeek	Not available	$0.500 in $1.50 out	—
DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek	Not available	$0.140 in $0.280 out	—
DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek	Not available	$1.74 in $3.48 out	—
Gemma 4 31B Google	Not available	$0.140 in $0.400 out	—

Features Comparison

Anthropic

Claude Model Family
Access to the Claude model family including Fable 5, Opus 5, Sonnet 5, and Haiku 4.5, plus the Mythos line
Claude Code
Agentic coding assistant in your terminal for enhanced development workflows
Claude Cowork
Collaborative workspace features for team projects and shared workflows
Claude Design
Design-focused product surface included with paid Claude plans
Claude Science
Customizable app for researchers that integrates common research tools and packages, produces auditable artifacts, and provides flexible access to computing resources
Claude Security
Security features and tools for enterprise security teams

Crusoe

Energy-First Infrastructure
Vertically integrated power sourcing across wind, solar, hydropower, geothermal, natural gas, and carbon capture
Fast Spin Up
Machines are deployed quickly when they are launched
Persistent Storage
Persistent and shared disks, object storage, and a container registry for AI datasets
SXM Support
Provides instances with NVIDIA SXM GPU interconnects
SLA Guarantee
99.5% uptime commitment backed by 24/7 enterprise-grade support
Managed Inference
LLM inference with up to 9.9x faster time-to-first-token and 5x higher throughput versus vLLM

Pros & Cons

Anthropic

Advantages

Clean API design with SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Go, Java, Ruby, PHP, and C#
200K token context window across all plans
Cost savings via prompt caching and the Batch API
Comprehensive documentation with quickstarts, courses, and a cookbook

Considerations

No image or video generation capabilities
Higher cost for top-tier Fable and Opus models
Closed source proprietary models

Crusoe

Advantages

Great GPU availability for on-demand use
Published hourly on-demand rates for most GPU types
Renewable and low-carbon energy sourcing with vertical integration from power to cloud
99.5% uptime commitment with 24/7 enterprise support

Considerations

Contact sales required for newest GPU models (GB200, B200, MI355X)
Spot capacity is quoted by sales rather than published as a self-service rate
Data center footprint concentrated in the United States with limited European capacity

Compute Services

Anthropic

Crusoe

GPU Instances

High-performance GPU instances powered by NVIDIA GPUs

CPU Instances

General-purpose and storage-optimized CPU instances for data processing

Managed Inference

Fully managed LLM inference spanning serverless, self-serve dedicated, and tailored deployments

Open models including DeepSeek V4, GLM 5.2, Kimi K2.6, Llama 3.3, Gemma 4, Qwen3, GPT-OSS, and Nemotron 3
Serverless Inference billed per million input, output, and cached tokens

Pricing Options

Anthropic

Pay-per-token API

Per million token pricing for Claude models with competitive rates

Consumer Plans

Free, Pro, and Max subscription tiers for individual use, billed monthly or annually

Team Plans

Per-seat pricing with monthly or annual billing, central billing, and SSO

Enterprise Plans

Self-serve and sales-assisted per-seat pricing with advanced admin, security, and compliance features, also available via AWS Marketplace

Prompt Caching

90% savings on cached content with 5-minute and 1-hour options

Batch API

50% discount on all tokens for async processing

Crusoe

On-Demand Instances

Pay by the hour for maximum agility and unthrottled compute

Spot Instances

Use spare capacity at significant discounts compared to on-demand pricing

Reserved Instances

Lock in guaranteed resources at lowest rates with custom commitments

Pay-as-you-go Inference

Flexible pricing for LLM inference based on token usage

Provisioned Throughput

Guaranteed inference capacity with AI Model Units, priced lower for longer commitments

Dedicated Inference Deployments

Hourly per-GPU pricing for self-serve dedicated endpoints, with monthly and volume rates via sales

Serverless Fine-Tuning

Per-token pricing tiered by the parameter count of the base model being tuned

Getting Started

Anthropic

Get Started

1
Create Console account
Sign up at platform.claude.com
2
Generate API key
Create an API key from Account Settings
3
Install SDK
pip install anthropic (Python) or npm install @anthropic-ai/sdk (TypeScript)
4
Make first API call
Call the Messages API endpoint with your API key

Crusoe

Get Started

1
Create an account
Sign up for Crusoe Cloud services through their website
2
Select GPU instance
Choose from available GPU types including L40S, A100, H100, H200, B200, GB200, and AMD options
3
Configure storage
Set up persistent storage options for your workloads
4
Launch instance
Deploy via the console, or provision programmatically with the Crusoe CLI or Terraform

Support & Global Availability

Anthropic

Global Regions

150+ countries including US, Canada, UK, EU, Australia, Japan. Available via direct API, Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI, and Microsoft Foundry

Support

Documentation, Discord community, email support, Help Center, status page, and enterprise support options

Crusoe

Global Regions

Data centers sited near low-cost energy in the United States, including a large-scale campus in Abilene, Texas, plus European capacity in Iceland and Norway

Support

Documentation, learning hub, and 24/7 enterprise-grade support with a 99.5% uptime commitment; SOC 2, ISO 27001, and ISO 42001 certifications