What is the difference between Crusoe and SwissGPU?

Crusoe and SwissGPU 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: Crusoe or SwissGPU?

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 Crusoe and SwissGPU?

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 13 different GPU models across both Crusoe and SwissGPU, with 0 models available from both providers.

Crusoe vs SwissGPU

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

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Crusoe GPUs

SwissGPU GPUs

Direct Comparisons

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 13Both available: 0Crusoe: 7SwissGPU: 6

Showing 13 of 13 GPUs

Last updated: 11/4/2026, 2:43:43 AM

GPU Model ↑	Crusoe Price	SwissGPU Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Crusoe	$2.00/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Crusoe $2.00/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe	$2.30/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe $2.30/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe	$3.90/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe $3.90/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
H200 141GB VRAM • Crusoe	$4.29/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
H200 141GB VRAM • Crusoe $4.29/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Crusoe	$8.96/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Crusoe $8.96/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
L40S 48GB VRAM • Crusoe	$1.50/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
L40S 48GB VRAM • Crusoe $1.50/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Crusoe	$3.45/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Crusoe $3.45/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
RTX 3090 24GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.29/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 3090 24GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.29/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU
RTX 4080 16GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.30/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 4080 16GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.30/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.49/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.49/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU
RTX 5080 16GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.37/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 5080 16GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.37/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU
RTX 5090 32GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.61/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 5090 32GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.61/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU
RTX 6000 Ada 48GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$1.83/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 6000 Ada 48GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $1.83/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU

A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Crusoe	$2.00/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Crusoe $2.00/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe	$2.30/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe $2.30/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe	$3.90/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Crusoe $3.90/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
H200 141GB VRAM • Crusoe	$4.29/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
H200 141GB VRAM • Crusoe $4.29/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Crusoe	$8.96/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Crusoe $8.96/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
L40S 48GB VRAM • Crusoe	$1.50/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
L40S 48GB VRAM • Crusoe $1.50/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Crusoe	$3.45/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Crusoe $3.45/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
RTX 3090 24GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.29/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 3090 24GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.29/hour Updated: 10/30/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU
RTX 4080 16GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.30/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 4080 16GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.30/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.49/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.49/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU
RTX 5080 16GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.37/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 5080 16GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.37/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU
RTX 5090 32GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.61/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 5090 32GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.61/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU
RTX 6000 Ada 48GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$1.83/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 6000 Ada 48GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $1.83/hour Updated: 11/2/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU

LLM API Pricing Comparison

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

Showing 9 of 9 models

Prices per 1M tokens · Last updated: 11/4/2026, 2:43:43 AM

Model ↑	Crusoe	SwissGPU	Input Diff ↕
DeepSeek V4 Flash DeepSeek	$0.140 in $0.280 out	Not available	—
DeepSeek V4 Pro DeepSeek	$1.74 in $3.48 out	Not available	—
DeepSeek V4.1 Flash DeepSeek	$0.290 in $1.20 out	Not available	—
Gemma 4 31B Google	$0.140 in $0.400 out	Not available	—
GLM-5.3 Z.ai	$1.40 in $4.40 out	Not available	—
GLM-5.3-Flash Z.ai	$0.150 in $0.500 out	Not available	—
GPT-OSS-120B OpenAI	$0.050 in $0.250 out	Not available	—
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B NVIDIA	$0.050 in $0.200 out	Not available	—
Qwen3.8 27B Alibaba	$0.250 in $2.00 out	Not available	—

Features Comparison

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

SwissGPU

Dedicated Resources
Every machine is fully dedicated to you, with direct access to GPU, CPU, memory, and storage. There is no virtualization layer and no shared GPU resources.
Isolated GPU Infrastructure
Run AI workloads on isolated GPU resources with secure SSH access.
Permanent Data Wipe
All data and the OS are permanently wiped after server rental ends.
Ultra-Low Latency
Offers ultra-low latency desktops that mimic local experience.
Fully Swiss Hosted
All servers, data, and operations are based in Switzerland.
Per-Minute Billing
Servers are billed per minute and billing stops when the machine is powered off, with no separate storage or network transfer charges.

Pros & Cons

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

SwissGPU

Advantages

Dedicated bare-metal GPU and compute resources for each client, with no virtualization layer.
Secure SSH access, with all data and the OS permanently wiped at the end of a rental.
Local-like experience with ultra-low latency remote desktops.
Published hourly rates for every GPU configuration, with per-minute billing and no storage or network fees.

Considerations

Consumer and workstation GPUs only — no datacenter accelerators such as H100 or B200 for large-scale training.
Single location: all capacity is in Switzerland, which adds latency for users outside Europe.
Electricity is metered and billed on top of the hourly rate, so the listed rate is not the full cost.

Compute 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

SwissGPU

Pricing Options

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

SwissGPU

Per-minute on-demand billing

Dedicated physical servers billed per minute, with billing stopping when the server is powered off and no additional storage or network charges.

Prepaid credits

Credits are topped up on the platform at any time, with payments processed by Stripe.

Metered electricity

Power consumption is billed separately per kWh on top of the hourly server rate, and a small fee applies when reinstalling the operating system.

Custom configurations and long-term commitments

Negotiated directly with the provider rather than published as self-service rates.

Getting Started

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

SwissGPU

Get Started

1
Browse available servers
Review the GPU configurations and their CPU, RAM, and NVMe specifications at https://www.swissgpu.ch/rent.
2
Create an account and add credits
Credits can be added to the account at any time; payments are processed through Stripe.
3
Rent a server
Select a configuration and start the rental; billing runs per minute while the server is powered on.
4
Connect to the machine
Access the server over secure SSH, or attach Visual Studio Code using the documented remote workflow.
5
Power off when finished
Billing stops as soon as the server is powered off, and all data and the OS are wiped when the rental ends.

Support & Global Availability

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

SwissGPU

Global Regions

Fully hosted in Switzerland; no other regions offered.

Support

Documentation site covering connection workflows and per-framework guides, plus a contact form and email support for technical questions and custom configurations.