--- title: "DataCrunch Alternative (2026): GPU Prices vs PowerGPU" description: "DataCrunch vs PowerGPU: B300 price, billing, payment (crypto, no KYC) and what maps to what when you switch. Public list prices checked 2026-09-04." url: https://powergpu.ai/alternatives/datacrunch last_modified: 2026-09-14T11:04:20+00:00 prices_as_of: 2026-09-14 site: PowerGPU (powergpu.ai) --- Alternative · prices checked 2026-09-04 # DataCrunch alternative: same NVIDIA GPUs, fixed prices 30% under the market DataCrunch renamed itself Verda in November 2025; datacrunch.io now redirects to verda.com, and the team, infrastructure and customer accounts carried over unchanged. Founded in Helsinki in 2018, Verda owns and operates its own datacenters rather than reselling capacity, with two sites in Helsinki and one in Reykjanesbaer, Iceland, on renewable power. It raised $117M in 2026 to build what it calls a European hyperscaler and expand into the UK, the US and Asia; a fourth Nordic site (Akaa, Finland) is announced but not yet live. 4 min read Updated 2026-09-14 (PowerGPU prices live from the sheet) ## 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](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/b300) (1× B300 SXM6 268GB) | $7.50 | **$6.737** | $3.368 | −10% on PowerGPU | | [B200](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/b200) (1× B200 SXM6 180GB) | $6.11 | **$5.425** | $2.712 | −11% on PowerGPU | | [H200](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/h200) (1× H200 SXM5 141GB) | $4.00 | **$2.791** | $1.395 | −30% on PowerGPU | | [H100 SXM](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/h100-sxm) (1× H100 SXM5 80GB) | $3.25 | **$1.428** | $0.714 | −56% on PowerGPU | | [A100 SXM4](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/a100-sxm4) (1× A100 SXM4 80GB; 40GB variant $1.29/h) | $1.79 | **$0.560** | $0.280 | −69% on PowerGPU | | [RTX PRO 6000 WS](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/rtx-pro-6000-ws) (1× RTX PRO 6000 96GB) | $1.89 | **$1.040** | $0.520 | −45% on PowerGPU | | [L40S](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/l40s) (1× L40S 48GB) | $1.37 | **$0.514** | $0.257 | −62% on PowerGPU | | [RTX 6000Ada](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/rtx-6000ada) (1× RTX 6000 Ada 48GB) | $1.04 | **$0.467** | $0.233 | −55% on PowerGPU | | [RTX A6000](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/rtx-a6000) (1× RTX A6000 48GB) | $0.61 | **$0.281** | $0.140 | −54% on PowerGPU | | [Tesla V100](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/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 | *the whole migration, from the shell* ``` 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 second ``` Data moves the boring way: rsync or rclone from your DataCrunch machine to a PowerGPU [volume](https://powergpu.ai/products/volumes), which then mounts on every future instance in seconds. Templates for [PyTorch](https://powergpu.ai/templates/pytorch), [vLLM](https://powergpu.ai/templates/vllm), [ComfyUI](https://powergpu.ai/templates/comfyui) and [Ollama](https://powergpu.ai/templates/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](https://powergpu.ai/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. DataCrunch and its logo are trademarks of their owner, used here only to identify the compared service; PowerGPU is not affiliated with DataCrunch. NVIDIA GPU names are trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation. --- *About PowerGPU:* PowerGPU (powergpu.ai) is a cloud GPU rental service offering 80 NVIDIA GPU models — from the RTX A2000 at $0.024/hr to the B300 — at fixed prices set at least 30% below the public GPU marketplace median and re-checked weekly (H100 SXM: $1.428/hr on-demand). Billing is per second with no minimums; payment is crypto only (USDT, BTC, XMR, ETH, SOL, LTC, TRX) with no KYC. Instances run in Tier-III datacenters across 32 regions with a 99.9% uptime SLA and deploy in about 30 seconds from the web console (cloud.powergpu.ai) or the REST API. Source: https://powergpu.ai/alternatives/datacrunch · Site index for AI assistants: https://powergpu.ai/llms.txt · Full content: https://powergpu.ai/llms-full.txt