Vast.ai

US marketplace where independent hosts rent out GPU machines as containers or virtual machines at prices they set.

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Other people's GPUs, at other people's prices.

Classification

Categories: Containers as a Service, GPU cloud 1
Use cases: AI and LLM apps 1

Tech stack

Runtimes: Anything, Docker 4
GPU: GPU instances, Serverless GPU1 6

Pricing

Pricing model: Prepaid credit7
Entry price: $5 to $15 a month 8
Typical ceiling: Over $1,500 a month8
Currencies: USD 7
Billed: Hourly2
Paid: In advance7

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Vast.ai is a marketplace for GPU rental. Hosts list their machines and set their own prices, and renters choose an offer by GPU model, price, location and host reliability. An instance is a Docker container with exclusive use of its GPUs; full virtual machines are available on hosts that support them. Rentals come in three kinds, per the pricing docs: on-demand at a fixed price, reserved at a discount for a prepaid term, and interruptible at a lower price that can be paused. Serverless endpoints recruit workers from the same marketplace and bill them at the same per-second rates, with no charge for GPU time while a worker is inactive.

Worth knowing

There is no fixed rate card: each host sets its price and it moves with supply and demand, so the current offers are on the search page. Storage and bandwidth are charged separately at host-set rates, and storage keeps billing while an instance is stopped. Rentals draw on prepaid credit; the billing docs say instances stop when the balance reaches zero and are then scheduled for deletion, and that spent credit is not refunded.

Identity

Founded: 20163
Status: Active

Deployment

Deployment: Control panel, Container image 5

Regions and law

Headquarters: United States 3

Automation

CLI: Official10
API: Public9

Sources

2026-09-24: Categories, Use cases, GPU
docs.vast.ai/guides/instances/overview
2026-09-24: description, Billed
docs.vast.ai/guides/instances/pricing
2026-09-24: Founded, Headquarters
vast.ai/about
2026-09-24: Runtimes
docs.vast.ai/guides/instances/virtual-machines
2026-09-24: Deployment
docs.vast.ai/guides/instances/choosing/templates
2026-09-24: GPU
docs.vast.ai/guides/serverless/pricing
2026-09-24: Pricing model, Paid, Currencies
docs.vast.ai/guides/reference/billing
2026-09-24: Entry price, Typical ceiling
cloud.vast.ai/create/
2026-09-24: API
docs.vast.ai/api-reference/hello-world
2026-09-24: CLI
docs.vast.ai/cli/hello-world

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