DataCrunch vs PowerGPU at a glance
DataCrunch
Renamed Verda in Nov. 2025: own Nordic datacenters, H100 through B300, no crypto payment
PowerGPU
Fixed prices at market median × 0.70, crypto only, verified datacenters
| DataCrunch | PowerGPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing | Hourly rate shown per GPU, pay-as-you-go; sub-hour billing increment not published on Verda's own pricing or terms pages | Per second, no minimum, price locked at deploy |
| Payment | Card or debit by default; invoicing available at Verda's discretion; no cryptocurrency documented | Crypto only — USDT (TRC-20/ERC-20), BTC, XMR, LTC, ETH, TRX, SOL |
| Identity | No KYC clause in the Terms and Conditions; billing name, email, phone and address required to set up an account | Email + password. No KYC, no card, no stored IP addresses |
| Free credit | None advertised on the current pricing or company pages | None — every hour is ≥30% under the market median instead |
| Cheaper tier | Spot tier at roughly −50% versus on-demand; reserved capacity from a 1-month minimum term | Interruptible flat −50% (no auction) · reserved −35% (3+ months) |
| Regions | 3 own-operated sites: Helsinki ×2 (Finland), Reykjanesbaer ×1 (Iceland); a fourth (Akaa, Finland) and international offices announced, none live yet | 32 regions on 5 continents, verified datacenters only |
| Minimums | None for pay-as-you-go; reserved capacity starts at 1 month | None — 1× to 8× GPUs at the same per-GPU price |
| Storage | $0.20/GiB/month NVMe | $0.08/GB/month NVMe, volumes survive instances |
| Egress | Not published on Verda's pricing or FAQ pages | $0.01/GB in and out, every region |
| Access | Self-serve console and API, no sales call for the instances listed above | Containers or full KVM VMs, SSH, Jupyter, REST API, CLI, Python SDK |
DataCrunch column: as published on datacrunch.io on 2026-09-04. Details change — verify before you decide.
DataCrunch vs PowerGPU prices, GPU by GPU
Public on-demand list prices per GPU-hour on DataCrunch's pricing page (2026-09-04) against PowerGPU's fixed rates today — every PowerGPU price is the public marketplace median × 0.70, rounded down, re-checked weekly.
| GPU | DataCrunch list | PowerGPU on-demand | PowerGPU interruptible | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| B300 1× B300 SXM6 268GB | $7.50 | $6.737 | $3.368 | −10% on PowerGPU |
| B200 1× B200 SXM6 180GB | $6.11 | $5.425 | $2.712 | −11% on PowerGPU |
| H200 1× H200 SXM5 141GB | $4.00 | $2.791 | $1.395 | −30% on PowerGPU |
| H100 SXM 1× H100 SXM5 80GB | $3.25 | $1.428 | $0.714 | −56% on PowerGPU |
| A100 SXM4 1× A100 SXM4 80GB; 40GB variant $1.29/h | $1.79 | $0.560 | $0.280 | −69% on PowerGPU |
| RTX PRO 6000 WS 1× RTX PRO 6000 96GB | $1.89 | $1.040 | $0.520 | −45% on PowerGPU |
| L40S 1× L40S 48GB | $1.37 | $0.514 | $0.257 | −62% on PowerGPU |
| RTX 6000Ada 1× RTX 6000 Ada 48GB | $1.04 | $0.467 | $0.233 | −55% on PowerGPU |
| RTX A6000 1× RTX A6000 48GB | $0.61 | $0.281 | $0.140 | −54% on PowerGPU |
| Tesla V100 1× Tesla V100 16GB | $0.17 | $0.130 | $0.065 | −24% on PowerGPU |
Configurations differ (node sizes, tiers, regions); the note beside each card says which DataCrunch price is quoted. Negative differences mean DataCrunch is cheaper on that card.
When to stay with DataCrunch
- Verda owns its Nordic datacenters end to end, power to network, rather than reselling capacity, which some buyers want for pricing and control stability.
- Blackwell-generation cards (B300, B200) are already listed alongside H200 and H100, useful if the newest silicon matters more than price.
- EU or Nordic data residency and hydro or renewable-powered sites are a hard requirement for compliance or sustainability reporting.
Why teams switch to PowerGPU
- Price: Verda's H100 SXM is $3.25/hr and its A100 SXM4 80GB is $1.79/hr; PowerGPU fixes both at the public market median × 0.70.
- Geography: Verda runs 3 sites, all in Finland and Iceland, against 32 PowerGPU regions on five continents.
- Payment: Verda bills by card by default with no cryptocurrency option; PowerGPU is crypto-settled with no card and no KYC.
- A published egress rate, $0.01/GB here, where Verda's own pricing and FAQ pages currently list none.
Switching from DataCrunch: what maps to what
| On DataCrunch | On PowerGPU |
|---|---|
| On-demand instance (verda.com/pricing) | Instance, container in 30 s or full KVM VM |
| Spot tier, about −50% | Interruptible flat −50% |
| Reserved, 1-month minimum | Reserved −35% (3+ months) |
| NVMe volume, $0.20/GiB/month | Volume, $0.08/GB/month |
| Card, or invoice by request | Crypto top-up, no card, no KYC |
pip install powergpu
export POWERGPU_API_KEY=pg_live_… # console → API keys
powergpu launch --gpu b300 --template pytorch --disk 100 --volume data:/data
# ✓ instance i-52ab77c1 running (24.1s) · $6.737/hr · per second
powergpu stop i-52ab77c1 # billing ends this secondData moves the boring way: rsync or rclone from your DataCrunch machine to a PowerGPU volume, which then mounts on every future instance in seconds. Templates for PyTorch, vLLM, ComfyUI and Ollama are official images; anything else runs from its OCI reference.
A real month, costed
| Scenario | DataCrunch | PowerGPU |
|---|---|---|
| 1× B300, 730 hours on-demand | $5,475 | $4,918 |
| 1× B300, 8 h/day × 20 days | $1,200 | $1,078 |
| Same 160 hours, PowerGPU interruptible | — | $539 |
| 500 GB of storage, one month | $0.20/GiB/month NVMe | $40 |
Run your own schedule through the cost calculator — it adds storage and bandwidth and compares against the marketplace median.
DataCrunch alternative: FAQ
Is PowerGPU cheaper than Verda (formerly DataCrunch)?
On every overlapping card, yes: Verda lists the H100 SXM at $3.25/hr and the A100 SXM4 80GB at $1.79/hr (checked 2026-09-04); PowerGPU fixes both at the public market median × 0.70. Verda's own spot tier, about −50%, narrows the gap but still sits on top of a higher on-demand rate.
Is DataCrunch still around, or is it Verda now?
Same company. DataCrunch renamed to Verda in November 2025; datacrunch.io now redirects to verda.com and existing accounts moved over automatically. This fiche uses Verda's current pricing and terms, checked 2026-09-04.
Does Verda charge for bandwidth?
Not published: neither Verda's pricing page nor its FAQ list an egress rate as of 2026-09-04. PowerGPU publishes a flat $0.01/GB in and out.
Can I pay Verda in crypto?
No. Verda's terms specify card or debit by default, with invoicing available at its discretion; no cryptocurrency option is documented (checked 2026-09-04). PowerGPU is crypto-only: USDT, BTC, XMR, LTC, ETH, TRX, SOL, with no card and no KYC.
Try the switch for the price of a coffee
Top up $40 in USDT or Monero, deploy the same image you run on DataCrunch, and benchmark it. No card, no KYC, per-second billing — stop it the minute you are done.
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