What is the difference between Amazon AWS and Crusoe?

Amazon AWS 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: Amazon AWS 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 Amazon AWS 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 9 different GPU models across both Amazon AWS and Crusoe, with 0 models available from both providers.

Amazon AWS vs Crusoe

Compare GPU and LLM inference API pricing between Amazon AWS and Crusoe. Find the best rates for AI training, inference, and ML workloads.

Amazon AWS

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Amazon AWS GPUs

Crusoe GPUs

Direct Comparisons

Average Price Difference: $1.13/hour between comparable GPUs

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 9Both available: 1Amazon AWS: 8Crusoe: 2

Showing 9 of 9 GPUs

Last updated: 10/15/2026, 3:51:50 AM

GPU Model ↑	Amazon AWS Price	Crusoe Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A10 24GB VRAM • Amazon AWS	$1.01/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	AWS EC2 Pricing API
A10 24GB VRAM • Amazon AWS $1.01/hour Updated: 10/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available AWS EC2 Pricing API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$2.00/hr★ Best	—	Crusoe
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $2.00/hour Updated: 10/14/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Amazon AWSCrusoe	$3.43/hr 8x GPU	$2.30/hr★ Best	↑+$1.13(+49.2%)	AWS EC2 Pricing API Crusoe
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Amazon AWS $3.43/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/14/2026 Crusoe $2.30/hour Updated: 10/14/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$1.13(+49.2%) AWS EC2 Pricing API Crusoe
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Amazon AWS	$2.74/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	AWS EC2 Pricing API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Amazon AWS $2.74/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available AWS EC2 Pricing API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Amazon AWS	$6.88/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	AWS EC2 Pricing API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Amazon AWS $6.88/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available AWS EC2 Pricing API
H200 141GB VRAM • Amazon AWS	$7.91/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	AWS EC2 Pricing API
H200 141GB VRAM • Amazon AWS $7.91/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available AWS EC2 Pricing API
L4 24GB VRAM • Amazon AWS	$0.80/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	AWS EC2 Pricing API
L4 24GB VRAM • Amazon AWS $0.80/hour Updated: 10/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available AWS EC2 Pricing API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Amazon AWS	$1.86/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	AWS EC2 Pricing API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Amazon AWS $1.86/hour Updated: 10/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available AWS EC2 Pricing API
Tesla T4 16GB VRAM • Amazon AWS	$0.53/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	AWS EC2 Pricing API
Tesla T4 16GB VRAM • Amazon AWS $0.53/hour Updated: 10/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available AWS EC2 Pricing API

A10 24GB VRAM • Amazon AWS	$1.01/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	AWS EC2 Pricing API
A10 24GB VRAM • Amazon AWS $1.01/hour Updated: 10/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available AWS EC2 Pricing API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$2.00/hr★ Best	—	Crusoe
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $2.00/hour Updated: 10/14/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Amazon AWSCrusoe	$3.43/hr 8x GPU	$2.30/hr★ Best	↑+$1.13(+49.2%)	AWS EC2 Pricing API Crusoe
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Amazon AWS $3.43/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/14/2026 Crusoe $2.30/hour Updated: 10/14/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$1.13(+49.2%) AWS EC2 Pricing API Crusoe
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Amazon AWS	$2.74/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	AWS EC2 Pricing API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Amazon AWS $2.74/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available AWS EC2 Pricing API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Amazon AWS	$6.88/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	AWS EC2 Pricing API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Amazon AWS $6.88/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available AWS EC2 Pricing API
H200 141GB VRAM • Amazon AWS	$7.91/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	AWS EC2 Pricing API
H200 141GB VRAM • Amazon AWS $7.91/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available AWS EC2 Pricing API
L4 24GB VRAM • Amazon AWS	$0.80/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	AWS EC2 Pricing API
L4 24GB VRAM • Amazon AWS $0.80/hour Updated: 10/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available AWS EC2 Pricing API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Amazon AWS	$1.86/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	AWS EC2 Pricing API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Amazon AWS $1.86/hour Updated: 10/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available AWS EC2 Pricing API
Tesla T4 16GB VRAM • Amazon AWS	$0.53/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	AWS EC2 Pricing API
Tesla T4 16GB VRAM • Amazon AWS $0.53/hour Updated: 10/14/2026 ★Best Price Not Available AWS EC2 Pricing API

LLM API Pricing Comparison

Total models: 66Both available: 2Amazon AWS: 56Crusoe: 12

Showing 15 of 66 models

Prices per 1M tokens · Last updated: 10/15/2026, 3:51:50 AM

Model ↑	Amazon AWS	Crusoe	Input Diff ↕
Claude 3 Haiku Anthropic	$0.250 in $1.25 out	Not available	—
Claude 3.5 Haiku Anthropic	$0.800 in $4.00 out	Not available	—
Claude 3.5 Sonnet Anthropic	$3.00 in $15.00 out	Not available	—
Claude 3.7 Sonnet Anthropic	$3.00 in $15.00 out	Not available	—
Claude Haiku 4.5 Anthropic	$1.10 in $5.50 out	Not available	—
Claude Opus 4.1 Anthropic	$15.00 in $75.00 out	Not available	—
Claude Opus 4.5 Anthropic	$5.50 in $27.50 out	Not available	—
Claude Opus 4.6 Anthropic	$5.50 in $27.50 out	Not available	—
Claude Sonnet 4.5 Anthropic	$3.30 in $16.50 out	Not available	—
DeepSeek V3.2 DeepSeek	$0.620 in $1.85 out	Not available	—
DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek	Not available	$0.140 in $0.280 out	—
DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek	Not available	$1.74 in $3.48 out	—
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek	Not available	$0.290 in $0.200 out	—
Gemma 3 12B Google	$0.090 in $0.290 out	Not available	—
Gemma 3 27B Google	$0.230 in $0.380 out	Not available	—

Features Comparison

Amazon AWS

Global Infrastructure
Extensive network of data centers across multiple regions worldwide
Pay-as-you-go Pricing
Flexible pricing model with no upfront commitments required
Advanced Security
Comprehensive security tools and compliance certifications
Auto Scaling
Automatically adjust resources based on demand
Integrated Services
Extensive ecosystem of services that work seamlessly together
Developer Tools
Comprehensive suite of tools for development, deployment, and management

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

Amazon AWS

Advantages

Broad range of compute options including GPUs
Highly scalable and reliable infrastructure
Pay-as-you-go pricing with cost optimization tools
Extensive global network of data centers

Considerations

Complex pricing structure
Steep learning curve for new users
Potential for unexpected costs without proper management

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

Amazon AWS

Amazon EC2

Virtual servers in the cloud with a wide range of instance types.

Amazon ECS

Fully managed container orchestration service.

Support for Docker containers
Integration with other AWS services

Amazon EKS

Managed Kubernetes service for container orchestration.

Certified Kubernetes conformant
Integrates with AWS networking and security services

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

Amazon AWS

On-Demand Instances

Pay for compute capacity by the second with no long-term commitments.

Spot Instances

Use spare EC2 capacity at up to 90% off the On-Demand price.

Reserved Instances

Save up to 72% compared to On-Demand pricing with a 1 or 3-year commitment.

Savings Plans

Save up to 72% on compute usage with a 1 or 3-year commitment to a consistent amount of usage.

EC2 Capacity Blocks for ML

Reserve accelerated compute capacity for a future start date and a defined duration; billed as an upfront reservation fee plus an operating system fee.

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

Amazon AWS

Get Started

1
Sign up for AWS
Create an AWS account to access the cloud platform.
2
Choose a compute service
Select from EC2, Lambda, or container services based on your workload needs.
3
Launch an instance
Configure and launch your first compute instance or container.
4
Set up security
Configure security groups and access controls for your resources.
5
Monitor and optimize
Use AWS CloudWatch and Compute Optimizer to monitor performance and reduce costs.

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

Amazon AWS

Global Regions

39 geographic regions and 123 availability zones worldwide.

Support

Basic (free), Developer, Business, Enterprise support plans with varying response times and features. Extensive documentation, forums, and training resources.

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