Akash vs DataCrunch (Verda)
5 GPUs in common. Akash is cheaper on 4, DataCrunch (Verda) on 1; on average DataCrunch (Verda) is 37% above Akash.
Prices collected 2026-10-11
Every GPU both price
| GPU | Akash | DataCrunch (Verda) | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B300 | $6.00 | $9.53 | Akash −37% | $8.00 |
| NVIDIA B200 | $5.00 | $7.94 | Akash −37% | $6.99 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $2.73 | $4.21 | Akash −35% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.50 | $1.93 | Akash −22% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA V100 16GB | $0.25 | $0.21 | DataCrunch (Verda) −16% | $0.78 |
Only one of them has it
Questions
Is Akash or DataCrunch (Verda) cheaper?
On the 5 GPUs both price on 2026-10-11, Akash is cheaper on 4 and DataCrunch (Verda) on 1. On average DataCrunch (Verda) is 37% 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 RTX 5090, RTX 4090, RTX 3090, T4, RTX 4080; DataCrunch (Verda) alone prices H200, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, L40S, A100 40GB, RTX 6000 Ada, RTX A6000. They are different kinds of provider — Akash is a marketplace, DataCrunch (Verda) a neocloud — 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. DataCrunch (Verda): 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. Both are read every six hours; nothing is estimated.