Oracle Cloud vs Vast.ai
8 GPUs in common. Oracle Cloud is cheaper on 0, Vast.ai on 8; on average Vast.ai is 64% below Oracle Cloud.
Prices collected 2026-09-18
Every GPU both price
| GPU | Oracle Cloud | Vast.ai | Difference | Market |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 NVIDIA B300 | $15.00 | $9.38 | Vast.ai −37% | $7.85 |
| NVIDIA B200 | $14.00 | $8.75 | Vast.ai −37% | $6.59 |
| NVIDIA H200 | $10.00 | $4.67 | Vast.ai −53% | $4.45 |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM | $10.00 | $3.45 | Vast.ai −66% | $3.50 |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell | $4.50 | $1.47 | Vast.ai −67% | $2.05 |
| NVIDIA A100 80GB | $4.00 | $0.80 | Vast.ai −80% | $1.79 |
| NVIDIA L40S | $3.50 | $0.80 | Vast.ai −77% | $1.47 |
| NVIDIA V100 16GB | $2.95 | $0.21 | Vast.ai −93% | $0.79 |
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Questions
Is Oracle Cloud or Vast.ai cheaper?
On the 8 GPUs both price on 2026-09-18, Oracle Cloud is cheaper on 0 and Vast.ai on 8. On average Vast.ai is 64% cheaper than Oracle Cloud across those GPUs. The table shows each one; the gap is rarely uniform.
What does one have that the other does not?
Oracle Cloud alone prices MI355X, MI300X, A100 40GB, A10; Vast.ai alone prices H200 NVL, H100 NVL, H100 PCIe, L40, A40, RTX 4090, RTX 6000 Ada, RTX 5090, RTX A6000, RTX 5080, RTX 4080, L4, RTX 3090, RTX A5000, RTX A4000. They are different kinds of provider — Oracle Cloud is a hyperscaler, Vast.ai a marketplace — which is most of why the prices differ.
Where do these prices come from?
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. 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.