What is the difference between Aquanode and fal.ai?

Aquanode and fal.ai 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: Aquanode or fal.ai?

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 Aquanode and fal.ai?

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 41 different GPU models across both Aquanode and fal.ai, with 0 models available from both providers.

Aquanode vs fal.ai

Compare GPU pricing between Aquanode and fal.ai. Find the best rates for AI training, inference, and ML workloads.

Aquanode

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fal.ai

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Aquanode GPUs

fal.ai GPUs

Direct Comparisons

Average Price Difference: $1.70/hour between comparable GPUs

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 41Both available: 4Aquanode: 39fal.ai: 6

Showing 15 of 41 GPUs

Last updated: 11/8/2026, 3:10:31 AM

GPU Model ↑	Aquanode Price	fal.ai Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Aquanode	$1.32/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Aquanode GPU Price Index
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Aquanode $1.32/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Aquanode GPU Price Index
A40 48GB VRAM • Aquanode	$0.64/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Aquanode GPU Price Index
A40 48GB VRAM • Aquanode $0.64/hour Updated: 11/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Aquanode GPU Price Index
B200 180GB VRAM • Aquanodefal.ai	$9.35/hr	$7.99/hr★ Best	↑+$1.36(+17.0%)	Aquanode GPU Price Index fal.ai
B200 180GB VRAM • Aquanode $9.35/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 fal.ai $7.99/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$1.36(+17.0%) Aquanode GPU Price Index fal.ai
GB200 384GB VRAM • fal.ai	Not Available	$9.99/hr★ Best	—	fal.ai
GB200 384GB VRAM • Not Available fal.ai $9.99/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price fal.ai
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Aquanodefal.ai	$3.00/hr★ Best	$4.50/hr	↓$1.50(33.3%)	Aquanode GPU Price Index fal.ai
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Aquanode $3.00/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price fal.ai $4.50/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 Price Difference:↓$1.50(33.3%) Aquanode GPU Price Index fal.ai
H200 141GB VRAM • Aquanodefal.ai	$4.48/hr★ Best	$6.00/hr	↓$1.52(25.4%)	Aquanode GPU Price Index fal.ai
H200 141GB VRAM • Aquanode $4.48/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price fal.ai $6.00/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 Price Difference:↓$1.52(25.4%) Aquanode GPU Price Index fal.ai
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • fal.ai	Not Available	$12.99/hr★ Best	—	fal.ai
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Not Available fal.ai $12.99/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price fal.ai
L40 40GB VRAM • Aquanode	$0.85/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Aquanode GPU Price Index
L40 40GB VRAM • Aquanode $0.85/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Aquanode GPU Price Index
L40S 48GB VRAM • Aquanode	$0.95/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Aquanode GPU Price Index
L40S 48GB VRAM • Aquanode $0.95/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Aquanode GPU Price Index
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Aquanode	$3.29/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Aquanode GPU Price Index
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Aquanode $3.29/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Aquanode GPU Price Index
RTX 3060 12GB VRAM • Aquanode	$0.11/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Aquanode GPU Price Index
RTX 3060 12GB VRAM • Aquanode $0.11/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Aquanode GPU Price Index
RTX 3060 Ti 8GB VRAM • Aquanode	$0.27/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Aquanode GPU Price Index
RTX 3060 Ti 8GB VRAM • Aquanode $0.27/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Aquanode GPU Price Index
RTX 3070 8GB VRAM • Aquanode	$0.13/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Aquanode GPU Price Index
RTX 3070 8GB VRAM • Aquanode $0.13/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Aquanode GPU Price Index
RTX 3080 10GB VRAM • Aquanode	$0.13/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Aquanode GPU Price Index
RTX 3080 10GB VRAM • Aquanode $0.13/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Aquanode GPU Price Index
RTX 3090 24GB VRAM • Aquanode	$0.20/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Aquanode GPU Price Index
RTX 3090 24GB VRAM • Aquanode $0.20/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Aquanode GPU Price Index

A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Aquanode	$1.32/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Aquanode GPU Price Index
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Aquanode $1.32/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Aquanode GPU Price Index
A40 48GB VRAM • Aquanode	$0.64/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Aquanode GPU Price Index
A40 48GB VRAM • Aquanode $0.64/hour Updated: 11/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Aquanode GPU Price Index
B200 180GB VRAM • Aquanodefal.ai	$9.35/hr	$7.99/hr★ Best	↑+$1.36(+17.0%)	Aquanode GPU Price Index fal.ai
B200 180GB VRAM • Aquanode $9.35/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 fal.ai $7.99/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$1.36(+17.0%) Aquanode GPU Price Index fal.ai
GB200 384GB VRAM • fal.ai	Not Available	$9.99/hr★ Best	—	fal.ai
GB200 384GB VRAM • Not Available fal.ai $9.99/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price fal.ai
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Aquanodefal.ai	$3.00/hr★ Best	$4.50/hr	↓$1.50(33.3%)	Aquanode GPU Price Index fal.ai
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Aquanode $3.00/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price fal.ai $4.50/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 Price Difference:↓$1.50(33.3%) Aquanode GPU Price Index fal.ai
H200 141GB VRAM • Aquanodefal.ai	$4.48/hr★ Best	$6.00/hr	↓$1.52(25.4%)	Aquanode GPU Price Index fal.ai
H200 141GB VRAM • Aquanode $4.48/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price fal.ai $6.00/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 Price Difference:↓$1.52(25.4%) Aquanode GPU Price Index fal.ai
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • fal.ai	Not Available	$12.99/hr★ Best	—	fal.ai
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Not Available fal.ai $12.99/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price fal.ai
L40 40GB VRAM • Aquanode	$0.85/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Aquanode GPU Price Index
L40 40GB VRAM • Aquanode $0.85/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Aquanode GPU Price Index
L40S 48GB VRAM • Aquanode	$0.95/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Aquanode GPU Price Index
L40S 48GB VRAM • Aquanode $0.95/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Aquanode GPU Price Index
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Aquanode	$3.29/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Aquanode GPU Price Index
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Aquanode $3.29/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Aquanode GPU Price Index
RTX 3060 12GB VRAM • Aquanode	$0.11/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Aquanode GPU Price Index
RTX 3060 12GB VRAM • Aquanode $0.11/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Aquanode GPU Price Index
RTX 3060 Ti 8GB VRAM • Aquanode	$0.27/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Aquanode GPU Price Index
RTX 3060 Ti 8GB VRAM • Aquanode $0.27/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Aquanode GPU Price Index
RTX 3070 8GB VRAM • Aquanode	$0.13/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Aquanode GPU Price Index
RTX 3070 8GB VRAM • Aquanode $0.13/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Aquanode GPU Price Index
RTX 3080 10GB VRAM • Aquanode	$0.13/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Aquanode GPU Price Index
RTX 3080 10GB VRAM • Aquanode $0.13/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Aquanode GPU Price Index
RTX 3090 24GB VRAM • Aquanode	$0.20/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Aquanode GPU Price Index
RTX 3090 24GB VRAM • Aquanode $0.20/hour Updated: 11/7/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Aquanode GPU Price Index

Features Comparison

Aquanode

Multi-provider GPU marketplace
One live marketplace over the providers Aquanode supports, so the same GPU model can be compared across offers before deploying. Each offer is tagged on-demand or preemptible.
Pods
An Environment (image and installed software) and a Volume (code, checkpoints, data) that persist while the rented machine is released, and can restart on a different GPU, provider or country.
Per-second billing
The machine is billed by the second only while it runs, with no minimum term; a stopped pod rents no machine.
Auto-stop
Opt-in per pod: an idle GPU gets a warning, then its environment and volume are captured and the machine is released.
Jobs
Run a command on a GPU to completion, with automatic retry on a different machine if a provider takes the original one away.
Teams and workspaces
Shared deployments, volumes, API keys and a credit balance owned by the team, with owner, admin and member roles.

fal.ai

Hosted Model Catalog
Production endpoints for image, video and audio models billed by output unit (per image, per megapixel, per second or per video)
Custom GPU Deployments
Run private models on dedicated NVIDIA GPUs with autoscaling and scale-to-zero
Optimized Runtimes
Inference engines tuned for diffusion and audio workloads

Pros & Cons

Aquanode

Advantages

Compares live offers for the same GPU model across several providers from one account and one balance
Billed per second with no minimum commitment, and a stopped pod does not rent a machine
Environment and volume persist across stops and can move to a different provider or region
Failover and automatic job retry on another machine if the chosen card is taken

Considerations

Capacity comes from third-party providers, so availability and network policy vary by offer
Marketplace rates are live minimums that can change between page loads
No spot bidding or committed-use reserved tier is offered

fal.ai

Advantages

Strong catalog of generative media models behind a single API
Per-second billing for serverless GPU deployments
Specialized inference optimizations for diffusion and audio

Considerations

Less suited to long-running fixed-instance training
Custom GPU deployments require contacting support to get started
Lower-tier consumer GPUs are not part of the catalog

Compute Services

Aquanode

fal.ai

Pricing Options

Aquanode

On-demand

Per-second billing while an instance runs, with no contract or minimum term

Preemptible

Lower-cost capacity from independent hosts, shown beside on-demand offers in the GPU Availability Index

Storage for pods

Environments and volumes are billed separately for the time they are held

fal.ai

Output-Based Model API Pricing

Hosted model endpoints billed per generated output unit — per image, per megapixel, per second of video or per video

Per-Second GPU Pricing

Custom deployments billed per second of GPU runtime, with scale-to-zero

Enterprise Contracts

Volume commitments and dedicated capacity for high-throughput customers, with discounted GPU rates below the published list price

Getting Started

Aquanode

Get Started

1
Create an account
Sign up in the Aquanode console and add credit to the account or team balance.
2
Choose a GPU
Browse live offers in the marketplace and pick a GPU model, provider and region.
3
Launch a pod
Start from a template such as JupyterLab or ComfyUI, or an empty box, and connect by browser terminal, SSH or the aq CLI.
4
Stop when idle
Stop the pod to release the machine and stop the hourly charge; the Environment and Volume are kept and can be started again on another provider.

fal.ai

Get Started

1
Create an account
Sign up and generate an API key
2
Pick a hosted model or upload your own
Choose from the catalog or define a custom GPU-backed deployment
3
Call the API
Invoke endpoints from any language using the REST or SDK clients

Support & Global Availability

Aquanode

Global Regions

Capacity is listed across many countries in Europe, Asia and Oceania, varying with live supply. The regions page notes some regions, such as the United States and Canada, can show no listed capacity at a given time.

Support

Documentation at docs.aquanode.io, a Discord community, and a Book a demo / Contact Sales option on the website.

fal.ai

Global Regions

Multi-region serverless infrastructure

Support

Documentation, community channels and enterprise support for paid customers