What is the difference between Crusoe and xAI?

Crusoe and xAI 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 xAI?

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 xAI?

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 Crusoe and xAI, with 0 models available from both providers.

Crusoe vs xAI

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

Crusoe

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GPUs Available

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xAI

Provider 2

GPUs Available

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Crusoe GPUs

xAI GPUs

Direct Comparisons

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 8Both available: 0Crusoe: 8xAI: 0

Showing 8 of 8 GPUs

Last updated: 10/24/2026, 12:44:37 PM

GPU Model ↑	Crusoe Price	xAI 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: 10/22/2026 ★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: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
B200 180GB VRAM • Crusoe	$8.50/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
B200 180GB VRAM • Crusoe $8.50/hour Updated: 10/21/2026 ★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: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
H200 141GB VRAM • Crusoe	$4.29/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
H200 141GB VRAM • Crusoe $4.29/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Crusoe	$9.90/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Crusoe $9.90/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
L40S 48GB VRAM • Crusoe	$1.50/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
L40S 48GB VRAM • Crusoe $1.50/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Crusoe	$3.45/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Crusoe $3.45/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe

A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Crusoe	$2.00/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Crusoe $2.00/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★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: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
B200 180GB VRAM • Crusoe	$8.50/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
B200 180GB VRAM • Crusoe $8.50/hour Updated: 10/21/2026 ★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: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
H200 141GB VRAM • Crusoe	$4.29/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
H200 141GB VRAM • Crusoe $4.29/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Crusoe	$9.90/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Crusoe $9.90/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
L40S 48GB VRAM • Crusoe	$1.50/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
L40S 48GB VRAM • Crusoe $1.50/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Crusoe	$3.45/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Crusoe
MI300X 192GB VRAM • Crusoe $3.45/hour Updated: 10/22/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Crusoe

LLM API Pricing Comparison

Total models: 15Both available: 0Crusoe: 10xAI: 5

Showing 15 of 15 models

Prices per 1M tokens · Last updated: 10/24/2026, 12:44:36 PM

Model ↑	Crusoe	xAI	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	—
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	—
Grok 4.3 xAI	Not available	$1.25 in $2.50 out	—
Grok 4.5 xAI	Not available	$2.00 in $6.00 out	—
Grok 4.6 xAI	Not available	$2.00 in $6.00 out	—
Grok 4.7 xAI	Not available	$2.00 in $6.00 out	—
Grok Build 0.1 0616 xAI	Not available	$1.00 in $2.00 out	—
Nemotron 3 Nano 30B NVIDIA	$0.050 in $0.200 out	Not available	—
Nemotron 3 Super 120B NVIDIA	$0.300 in $2.40 out	Not available	—
Nemotron 3.5 Lightning NVIDIA	$0.050 in $0.200 out	Not available	—
Nemotron 3.5 Super VL NVIDIA	$0.100 in $0.400 out	Not available	—
Qwen 3 235B Alibaba	$0.220 in $0.800 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

xAI

Grok text models
Chat Completions and Responses endpoints for the Grok models, with configurable reasoning and tool calling
Server-side tools
Web Search, X Search, code execution, file and collection search, and remote MCP tools billed per invocation on top of tokens
Imagine and Voice APIs
Image and video generation billed per image or second, and speech-to-speech, speech-to-text and text-to-speech endpoints
Batch API
Asynchronous processing with a discount on selected models, typically completed within 24 hours
Priority Processing
Higher scheduling priority for lower latency at a premium over standard token rates
Prompt caching
Cached prompt tokens are billed at a reduced rate

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

xAI

Advantages

First-party access to Grok models
Cached-input rates published per model
Batch and priority tiers for cost or latency trade-offs
Also available through Google Cloud Vertex AI and Microsoft Foundry

Considerations

Only xAI's own models are offered
Long-context requests above the published prompt threshold are billed at a higher rate for the whole request
Server-side tool calls add per-invocation charges on top of tokens

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

xAI

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

xAI

Per token

Input, cached input, and output tokens billed per 1M, with a higher long-context rate above a prompt-size threshold

Batch

Discounted asynchronous processing for selected models

Priority

A premium over standard rates for higher scheduling priority

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

xAI

Get Started

1
Create an account
Sign up on the xAI console and add credits
2
Create an API key
Generate a key in the console
3
Call the API
Send requests to api.x.ai with an OpenAI-compatible client or the xAI SDK

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

xAI

Support

Documentation, status page, and console support