What is the difference between Sesterce and SwissGPU?

Sesterce 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: Sesterce 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 Sesterce 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 22 different GPU models across both Sesterce and SwissGPU, with 0 models available from both providers.

Sesterce vs SwissGPU

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

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Sesterce GPUs

SwissGPU GPUs

Direct Comparisons

Average Price Difference: $0.74/hour between comparable GPUs

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 22Both available: 4Sesterce: 19SwissGPU: 7

Showing 15 of 22 GPUs

Last updated: 11/12/2026, 10:01:41 PM

GPU Model ↑	Sesterce Price	SwissGPU Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A10 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	$1.42/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Sesterce API
A10 24GB VRAM • Sesterce $1.42/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Sesterce API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	$1.49/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Sesterce API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Sesterce $1.49/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Sesterce API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Sesterce	$1.54/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Sesterce API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Sesterce $1.54/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Sesterce API
A100 SXM 80GB 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	$1.49/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Sesterce API
A100 SXM 80GB 80GB VRAM • Sesterce $1.49/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Sesterce API
A40 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	$2.05/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Sesterce API
A40 48GB VRAM • Sesterce $2.05/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Sesterce API
Gaudi 2 96GB VRAM • Sesterce	$1.21/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Sesterce API
Gaudi 2 96GB VRAM • Sesterce $1.21/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Sesterce API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	$2.19/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Sesterce API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Sesterce $2.19/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Sesterce API
H200 SXM 141GB VRAM • Sesterce	$4.40/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Sesterce API
H200 SXM 141GB VRAM • Sesterce $4.40/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/11/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Sesterce API
L4 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	$1.04/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Sesterce API
L4 24GB VRAM • Sesterce $1.04/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Sesterce API
L40 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	$0.97/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Sesterce API
L40 48GB VRAM • Sesterce $0.97/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Sesterce API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	$0.97/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Sesterce API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Sesterce $0.97/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Sesterce API
RTX 3090 24GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.42/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 3090 24GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.42/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU
RTX 4080 16GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.42/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 4080 16GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.42/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • SesterceSwissGPU	$0.44/hr★ Best 8x GPU	$0.54/hr	↓$0.10(18.9%)	Sesterce API SwissGPU
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • Sesterce $0.44/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU $0.54/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 Price Difference:↓$0.10(18.9%) Sesterce API SwissGPU
RTX 5080 16GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.48/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 5080 16GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.48/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU

A10 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	$1.42/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Sesterce API
A10 24GB VRAM • Sesterce $1.42/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Sesterce API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	$1.49/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Sesterce API
A100 PCIe 80GB 80GB VRAM • Sesterce $1.49/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Sesterce API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Sesterce	$1.54/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Sesterce API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Sesterce $1.54/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Sesterce API
A100 SXM 80GB 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	$1.49/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Sesterce API
A100 SXM 80GB 80GB VRAM • Sesterce $1.49/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Sesterce API
A40 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	$2.05/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Sesterce API
A40 48GB VRAM • Sesterce $2.05/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Sesterce API
Gaudi 2 96GB VRAM • Sesterce	$1.21/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Sesterce API
Gaudi 2 96GB VRAM • Sesterce $1.21/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Sesterce API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Sesterce	$2.19/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Sesterce API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Sesterce $2.19/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Sesterce API
H200 SXM 141GB VRAM • Sesterce	$4.40/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Sesterce API
H200 SXM 141GB VRAM • Sesterce $4.40/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/11/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Sesterce API
L4 24GB VRAM • Sesterce	$1.04/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Sesterce API
L4 24GB VRAM • Sesterce $1.04/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Sesterce API
L40 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	$0.97/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Sesterce API
L40 48GB VRAM • Sesterce $0.97/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Sesterce API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Sesterce	$0.97/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Sesterce API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Sesterce $0.97/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Sesterce API
RTX 3090 24GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.42/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 3090 24GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.42/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU
RTX 4080 16GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.42/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 4080 16GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.42/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • SesterceSwissGPU	$0.44/hr★ Best 8x GPU	$0.54/hr	↓$0.10(18.9%)	Sesterce API SwissGPU
RTX 4090 24GB VRAM • Sesterce $0.44/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU $0.54/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 Price Difference:↓$0.10(18.9%) Sesterce API SwissGPU
RTX 5080 16GB VRAM • SwissGPU	Not Available	$0.48/hr★ Best	—	SwissGPU
RTX 5080 16GB VRAM • Not Available SwissGPU $0.48/hour Updated: 11/12/2026 ★Best Price SwissGPU

Features Comparison

Sesterce

Vertically Integrated AI Factories
Each site is operated as a single system, owning the hand-off between energy, facility, silicon, network fabric, and orchestration
Sovereign European Infrastructure
French sites offering data residency, controlled energy origin, and supply-chain control, drawing on 2 GW of hydro, nuclear, and solar capacity secured under long-term PPAs
SoftBank Joint Venture at Bosquel
A joint venture with SoftBank Group to develop a 1 GW AI data center campus at Bosquel in Hauts-de-France
Sesterce OS Control Plane
Single console and API to provision clusters, orchestrate training, serve inference, and meter usage across every Sesterce site, Slurm and Kubernetes native
High-Density Liquid Cooling
Purpose-built Tier III+ facilities with direct-to-chip liquid cooling at up to 150 kW per rack, rated at PUE 1.12 under full AI load
InfiniBand Fabric
Non-blocking NVIDIA Quantum InfiniBand at 800 Gb/s with rail-optimized topology and native RDMA

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

Sesterce

Advantages

Broad on-demand catalog running from Blackwell B300 and H200 down to previous-generation NVIDIA cards, plus Intel Gaudi 2
On-demand, spot, and reserved billing modes on the same clusters
VM and bare-metal deployment with single- and multi-GPU (up to 8x) configurations
AI factory capacity at French sites, with hydro, nuclear, and solar energy under long-term PPAs

Considerations

On-demand instances run in regions across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific, so a self-serve instance is not necessarily hosted in France
Rack-scale GB300 NVL72 and B200 capacity is contracted as reserved AI factory capacity rather than sold from the self-serve catalog
The newest and largest accelerators (B300, H200, Gaudi 2) are only sold as 8-GPU nodes, with no smaller self-serve size

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

Sesterce

Compute

On-demand VMs and bare-metal servers launched with no commitment

Clusters

Dedicated multi-node GPU clusters ranging from around 100 to 15,000 GPUs

AI Inference

Managed inference instances for serving models alongside GPU compute

SwissGPU

Pricing Options

Sesterce

On-Demand

Pay-per-second usage with no commitment on VMs and bare-metal servers

Spot

Discounted interruptible capacity, filterable as a spot offer in the compute catalog

Reserved Capacity

Committed multi-megawatt cluster capacity contracted for frontier-scale workloads

Credit-based Billing

Pre-funded account balance system for streamlined resource management

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

Sesterce

Get Started

1
Create Account
Sign up for Sesterce Cloud platform access
2
Add Credits
Fund your account with credits for pay-as-you-go billing
3
Launch Instance
Choose your GPU type and configuration, launch in just a few clicks or via the CLI and API

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

Sesterce

Global Regions

AI factory sites at Bosquel (Hauts-de-France) and Valence, plus a Paris cloud region hosted at Equinix; the self-serve on-demand catalog lists regions across North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific

Support

Documentation and API reference, self-service console with help and requests, REST API and CLI, contact sales for reserved capacity

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.