Hyperbolic vs Aquanode

Open-model inference plus an on-demand GPU marketplace

Hyperbolic pairs open-model inference with rentable GPU capacity, aimed at developers who want both from one vendor. We do not do inference endpoints; we do the environment that outlives the box.

Where Hyperbolic wins

Hosted open-model inference alongside GPU rental, from a single account.
On-demand, reserved and private-cloud options across one supply base.

Where Aquanode wins

Your environment survives the box. Pause a deployment, come back tomorrow, resume with packages, model weights and config intact — instead of rebuilding from a fresh image every session.
A snapshot taken on one provider restores onto another. Supply moved, price moved, or a region ran dry — the environment follows, rather than being stranded in the account that created it.
One account across every provider we broker, so you are not maintaining separate logins, keys and billing per vendor to chase capacity.
Automated backups are on by default when you attach storage at deploy time, at a 6-hour interval — you do not have to remember to configure them.

Hyperbolic pricing

We could not verify a Hyperbolic price first-party, so this page publishes none. As of 2026-08-05 hyperbolic.xyz/pricing 301-redirects to hyperbolic.ai and that path returns HTTP 404; their homepage states that pricing depends on the compute model chosen but publishes no hourly rate. There is no first-party figure to cite, so we cite none.

Checked https://www.hyperbolic.ai/ on 2026-08-05.

What we do not claim

Restoring an environment requires a snapshot that already exists. Stopping a deployment yourself captures it on the way out, so you can bring it back later on any provider. A provider-side termination is different: it is only recoverable if you had already switched automated snapshots on for that deployment, and it costs you the work since the last one. Automated snapshots are opt-in — nothing runs until you start it — and with none running there is nothing to restore.

`aq deploy --snapshot <id>` rents the cheapest matching GPU and restores your snapshot onto it — including onto a different provider than the one it came from. Creating the snapshot is a separate step today: the standalone ogre CLI on the box writes it.