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Akash vs Amazon Web Services

5 GPUs in common. Akash is cheaper on 5, Amazon Web Services on 0; on average Amazon Web Services is 420% above Akash.

Prices collected 2026-10-11

Akash
10GPUs · -31.1% vs market
Amazon Web Services
11GPUs · +99.9% vs market
In common
5
Kind
marketplace · hyperscaler

Every GPU both price

GPUAkashAmazon Web ServicesDifferenceMarket
NVIDIANVIDIA B200$5.00$14.24Akash −65%$6.99
NVIDIANVIDIA H100 SXM$2.73$6.88Akash −60%$3.50
NVIDIANVIDIA A100 80GB$1.50$3.43Akash −56%$1.79
NVIDIANVIDIA V100 16GB$0.25$3.06Akash −92%$0.78
NVIDIANVIDIA T4$0.16$0.98Akash −84%$0.59

Only one of them has it

Only Amazon Web ServicesH200, V100 32GB, L40S, A100 40GB, A10G, L4

Questions

Is Akash or Amazon Web Services cheaper?

On the 5 GPUs both price on 2026-10-11, Akash is cheaper on 5 and Amazon Web Services on 0. On average Amazon Web Services is 420% more expensive than Akash across those GPUs. The table shows each one; the gap is rarely uniform.

What does one have that the other does not?

Akash alone prices B300, RTX 5090, RTX 4090, RTX 3090, RTX 4080; Amazon Web Services alone prices H200, V100 32GB, L40S, A100 40GB, A10G, L4. They are different kinds of provider — Akash is a marketplace, Amazon Web Services a hyperscaler — which is most of why the prices differ.

Where do these prices come from?

Akash: Public pricing page, parsed. Per-GPU price is the listed per-GPU rate, or the node price divided by GPU count. Prices near reserved, committed or contract terms are discarded; anything outside a plausible range for the GPU is discarded. Amazon Web Services: Public on-demand price list for Linux, us-east-1. Instance price divided by GPU count. Both are read every six hours; nothing is estimated.