UpCloud vs Vast.ai

No shared hardware — each GPU is always dedicated to a single server with full performance isolation

Helsinki data center powered entirely by renewable energy with up to 90% waste heat recovery for district heating

GDPR-compliant, ISO 27001-certified infrastructure in Finland; UpCloud is also a CISPE member

No egress fees — outbound data transfer is included at no extra cost on all plans, subject to a Fair Transfer Policy

Pay only for active compute time with hourly billing, no rigid contracts or long-term commitments required

Published uptime commitment covering GPU Servers, Premium and Cloud Native servers, and managed databases; entry-level Starter cloud servers carry a 99.99% SLA

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