Akash vs Vast.ai
10 GPUs in common. Akash is cheaper on 7, Vast.ai on 3; on average Vast.ai is 37% above Akash.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | Akash | Vast.ai | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B300 | $6.00 | $9.38 | Akash −36% | $7.85 |
| NVIDIA B200 | $5.00 | $8.75 | Akash −43% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $4.45 | $4.67 | Akash −5% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $2.71 | $3.45 | Akash −21% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $1.71 | $0.80 | Vast.ai −53% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA RTX 5090 | $0.68 | $0.68 | Vast.ai −1% | $0.69 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4090 | $0.39 | $0.72 | Akash −46% | $0.60 |
| NVIDIA V100 16GB | $0.36 | $0.21 | Vast.ai −40% | $0.79 |
| NVIDIA RTX 4080 | $0.15 | $0.36 | Akash −58% | $0.31 |
| NVIDIA RTX 3090 | $0.15 | $0.27 | Akash −44% | $0.25 |
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Questions
Is Akash or Vast.ai cheaper?
On the 10 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, Akash is cheaper on 7 and Vast.ai on 3. On average Vast.ai 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 T4; Vast.ai alone prices H200 NVL, H100 NVL, H100 PCIe, L40, RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell, A40, L40S, RTX 6000 Ada, RTX A6000, RTX 5080, L4, RTX A5000, RTX A4000.
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. Vast.ai: Public offer search, verified and rentable hosts only. Each offer is one observation; on-demand rate, not interruptible bids. Both are read every six hours; nothing is estimated.