Aquanode compared
15 head-to-head comparisons. Each one names where the other platform is genuinely better, because a comparison that concedes nothing is an advertisement. Every competitor price is read from that vendor's own pricing page, dated, and labelled with which product it belongs to. Where we could not confirm a rate first-party, we say so instead of guessing.
RunPod: pricing & review
GPU cloud with community and secure pods plus serverless endpoints
5 cited prices from www.runpod.io/pricing
Vast.ai: pricing & review
Peer-to-peer GPU marketplace where hosts set their own prices
No first-party price published: see why on the page
Lambda: pricing & review
AI cloud running its own datacenters, on-demand instances and 1-Click Clusters
3 cited prices from lambda.ai/pricing
Shadeform: pricing & review
Multi-cloud GPU marketplace with a single API across many clouds
No first-party price published: see why on the page
Spheron: pricing & review
Decentralized GPU network with published on-demand rates
7 cited prices from www.spheron.network/pricing
Thunder Compute: pricing & review
GPU cloud focused on a local-IDE developer workflow
4 cited prices from www.thundercompute.com/pricing
CoreWeave: pricing & review
Large-scale AI cloud, Kubernetes-native, enterprise contracts
5 cited prices from www.coreweave.com/pricing
Paperspace: pricing & review
GPU cloud and notebooks, now part of DigitalOcean
4 cited prices from www.paperspace.com/pricing
Modal: pricing & review
Serverless compute platform: functions and containers on GPUs, billed per second
6 cited prices from modal.com/pricing
Together AI: pricing & review
Inference and fine-tuning APIs plus on-demand GPU clusters
3 cited prices from www.together.ai/pricing
Hyperbolic: pricing & review
Open-model inference plus an on-demand GPU marketplace
No first-party price published: see why on the page
Google Colab: pricing & review
Hosted notebooks with allocated GPUs, sold as compute units
No first-party price published: see why on the page
AWS EC2 GPU instances: pricing & review
Hyperscaler GPU instances (P5, P4d) inside a full enterprise cloud
2 cited prices from aws.amazon.com/ec2/capacityblocks/pricing/
Google Cloud GPU VMs: pricing & review
Hyperscaler GPU VMs (A3/A2) inside Google Cloud
No first-party price published: see why on the page
Azure GPU VMs: pricing & review
Hyperscaler GPU VMs (NC, ND series) inside Microsoft Azure
No first-party price published: see why on the page
