Vast.ai vs Paperspace

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Vast.ai compared with Paperspace
Detail	Vast.ai	Paperspace
What it does	Rent high-performance cloud GPUs at low cost	Fast. Simple. Scalable.
Stage	Established	Established
Founded	2016	Not given
Based in	Not given	Not given
Pricing model	Not given	subscription
Pricing	On-demand, interruptible, and reserved pricing options with real-time supply-and-demand pricing. Start with $5 minimum. Interruptible instances 50%+ cheaper. Reserved instances up to 50% off with 1, 3, or 6-month terms.	Not given
Key features	GPU rental marketplace REST API Python SDK Serverless GPU endpoints GPU hosting Dedicated GPU clusters with InfiniBand	NVIDIA H100 GPUs Jupyter Notebooks for development Per-second GPU billing Model deployment and inference Job scheduling and resource provisioning Multi-cloud machine learning Cloud desktops (VDI) Automatic versioning and tagging
What makes it different	Real-time supply-and-demand pricing No long-term contracts API-native provisioning	Save up to 70% compared to major cloud providers on GPU compute costs Start in seconds with pre-configured templates and instant setup Over 500,000 builders using the platform for ML to 3D graphics applications
Free plan	Not given	Not given
Open source	Not given	Not given
Platforms	Not given	Not given
Public API	Not given	Not given
Community votes	0	0
DR (Domain Rating by Ahrefs)	73 no change since last check	73 no change since last check
Trust Flow (Majestic)	29	32
Citation Flow (Majestic)	49	48
Referring domains (Majestic)	3222	3034

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