Akash vs Oracle Cloud
6 GPUs in common. Akash is cheaper on 6, Oracle Cloud on 0; on average Oracle Cloud is 263% above Akash.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | Akash | Oracle Cloud | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B300 | $6.00 | $15.00 | Akash −60% | $7.85 |
| NVIDIA B200 | $5.00 | $14.00 | Akash −64% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $4.45 | $10.00 | Akash −55% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $2.71 | $10.00 | Akash −73% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.71 | $4.00 | Akash −57% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA V100 16GB | $0.36 | $2.95 | Akash −88% | $0.79 |
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Questions
Is Akash or Oracle Cloud cheaper?
On the 6 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, Akash is cheaper on 6 and Oracle Cloud on 0. On average Oracle Cloud is 263% 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, T4, RTX 4080, RTX 3090; Oracle Cloud alone prices MI355X, MI300X, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, L40S, A100 40GB, A10. They are different kinds of provider — Akash is a marketplace, Oracle Cloud 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. Oracle Cloud: OCI's public price-list API (the cost estimator's feed), pay-as-you-go, per GPU-hour as listed. One price worldwide. Both are read every six hours; nothing is estimated.