Paperspace vs Vast.ai

Interactive Jupyter notebooks with a free tier, pre-configured templates, and access to powerful GPUs.

Serve machine learning models as scalable API endpoints.

High-performance virtual machines with a wide variety of NVIDIA GPUs for demanding workloads.

Features for teams to collaborate on projects, including shared drives and SSO.

Offers persistent storage that can be shared across different machines and notebooks.

Programmatic access to the Paperspace platform to automate workflows.

Prices set by supply and demand across the platform with no list prices or hidden fees

GPU Cloud for full control, Serverless for zero-ops inference, Clusters for large-scale training

CLI, Python SDK, and REST API for programmatic GPU provisioning, installed together via a single package

API-native workflow intended for AI agents to search, procure, and release compute autonomously

Prebuilt templates for popular open-source models, plus custom templates any GPU can run with one click

Scale from $5 to 20,000 GPUs across 40+ data centers without contracts or minimums