What is the difference between Bentaus and Crusoe?

Bentaus 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: Bentaus 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 Bentaus 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 8 different GPU models across both Bentaus and Crusoe, with 0 models available from both providers.

Bentaus vs Crusoe

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

Bentaus

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Crusoe

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Bentaus GPUs

Crusoe GPUs

Direct Comparisons

Average Price Difference: $4.61/hour between comparable GPUs

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 8Both available: 1Bentaus: 2Crusoe: 7

Showing 8 of 8 GPUs

Last updated: 11/4/2026, 2:44:18 AM

GPU Model ↑	Bentaus Price	Crusoe Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
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: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$2.30/hr★ Best	—	Crusoe
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $2.30/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$3.90/hr★ Best	—	Crusoe
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $3.90/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe
H200 141GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$4.29/hr★ Best	—	Crusoe
H200 141GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $4.29/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • BentausCrusoe	$4.35/hr★ Best 8x GPU	$8.96/hr	↓$4.61(51.5%)	Bentaus Crusoe
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Bentaus $4.35/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/3/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe $8.96/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 Price Difference:↓$4.61(51.5%) Bentaus Crusoe
L40S 48GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$1.50/hr★ Best	—	Crusoe
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $1.50/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$3.45/hr★ Best	—	Crusoe
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $3.45/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe
MI325X 256GB VRAM • Bentaus	$1.95/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Bentaus
MI325X 256GB VRAM • Bentaus $1.95/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/3/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Bentaus

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: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$2.30/hr★ Best	—	Crusoe
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $2.30/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$3.90/hr★ Best	—	Crusoe
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $3.90/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe
H200 141GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$4.29/hr★ Best	—	Crusoe
H200 141GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $4.29/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • BentausCrusoe	$4.35/hr★ Best 8x GPU	$8.96/hr	↓$4.61(51.5%)	Bentaus Crusoe
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Bentaus $4.35/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/3/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe $8.96/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 Price Difference:↓$4.61(51.5%) Bentaus Crusoe
L40S 48GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$1.50/hr★ Best	—	Crusoe
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $1.50/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Crusoe	Not Available	$3.45/hr★ Best	—	Crusoe
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Not Available Crusoe $3.45/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Crusoe
MI325X 256GB VRAM • Bentaus	$1.95/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Bentaus
MI325X 256GB VRAM • Bentaus $1.95/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/3/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Bentaus

LLM API Pricing Comparison

Total models: 9Both available: 0Bentaus: 0Crusoe: 9

Showing 9 of 9 models

Prices per 1M tokens · Last updated: 11/4/2026, 2:44:17 AM

Model ↑	Bentaus	Crusoe	Input Diff ↕
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 $1.20 out	—
Gemma 4 31B Google	Not available	$0.140 in $0.400 out	—
GLM-5.3 Z.ai	Not available	$1.40 in $4.40 out	—
GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai	Not available	$0.150 in $0.500 out	—
GPT-OSS-120B OpenAI	Not available	$0.050 in $0.250 out	—
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B NVIDIA	Not available	$0.050 in $0.200 out	—
Qwen3.8 27B Alibaba	Not available	$0.250 in $2.00 out	—

Features Comparison

Bentaus

HGX B300 nodes
Eight-GPU NVIDIA HGX B300 (Blackwell Ultra) nodes with 288 GB HBM3e per GPU, NVLink within the node and 400G InfiniBand between nodes
AMD Instinct MI325X nodes
Eight-GPU AMD Instinct MI325X (CDNA 3) nodes with 256 GB HBM3e per GPU, offered on-demand and as reserved capacity
Owned energy infrastructure
Capacity is deployed on power infrastructure Bentaus develops and operates itself, including generation, battery backup and liquid-cooled facilities
Ziani orchestration
Proprietary software that coordinates compute, power and energy assets in real time, letting GPU load respond to grid signals while keeping workload SLAs
Sales-assisted provisioning
Every order goes through an ordering form and a solutions architect; there is no instant single-GPU deployment
Dedicated AI factories
Fully isolated clusters designed to the customer's specification, with monitoring, support and SLAs, under a custom contract

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

Bentaus

Advantages

Published per-GPU-hour rates for on-demand and reserved capacity on both the B300 and MI325X, rather than quote-only pricing
Reserved capacity is described as guaranteed, non-interruptible and rate-locked for the term
Vertically integrated: the same company owns the power, the facility and the GPUs
Capacity advertised as available now rather than on a waitlist

Considerations

Minimum order is one eight-GPU node, so the hourly floor is eight times the per-GPU rate; there is no single-GPU option
Provisioning is sales-assisted through a solutions architect, not self-service or instant
Regions, billing increment, minimum rental duration and reserved term lengths are not disclosed

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

Bentaus

GPU-as-a-Service

HGX B300 and Instinct MI325X nodes sold by the GPU-hour in eight-GPU node increments

On-demand capacity for burst inference and training
Reserved capacity with priority access and a locked rate

AI Factory

Dedicated, fully isolated GPU clusters designed to the customer's specification

Full cluster isolation
Monitoring, support and SLAs

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

Bentaus

On-demand

Per-GPU-hour pricing sold in eight-GPU node increments and provisioned through sales; B300 is published as a range whose low end is a starting rate

Reserved

Lower per-GPU-hour range with guaranteed capacity, priority access and a rate locked for a custom term length agreed with sales

AI Factory

Custom contract pricing for a dedicated, isolated cluster; no published rate

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

Bentaus

Get Started

1
Size the deployment
Use the ordering form on the B300 page to state how many eight-GPU nodes you need, your workload type, timeline and whether you want on-demand, reserved or a custom environment
2
Talk to a solutions architect
A Bentaus solutions architect follows up to confirm configuration, term and pricing within the published range
3
Deploy
On-demand and reserved nodes are provisioned on Bentaus-operated infrastructure; AI factory clusters are designed and built to the agreed specification

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

Bentaus

Global Regions

Not disclosed; Bentaus operates on US grid infrastructure and its demand-response deployments have been in ERCOT (Texas)

Support

Solutions architect assigned per order; AI factory clusters include monitoring, support and SLAs. Enquiries via the contact page.

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