--- title: "FluidStack Alternative (2026): GPU Prices vs PowerGPU" description: "FluidStack vs PowerGPU: 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/fluidstack 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 # FluidStack alternative: same NVIDIA GPUs, fixed prices 30% under the market FluidStack (founded 2017 in London) started as a GPU rental broker but has pivoted hard toward large, invoiced infrastructure contracts: by the end of 2024 the company said about 62% of its revenue already came from multi-year "Private Cloud" deals versus 38% from its original on-demand marketplace, and 2026 reporting centers on a reported compute build-out tied to Anthropic and on capacity work referenced alongside Google, funded by a $1.5B round that valued the company at about $18B. Sites are reported in the UK, France, Iceland, Norway, Argentina and the US, sized for named-customer contracts. As of the date checked, fluidstack.io carries no rate card: the pricing page returns HTTP 404 and the homepage is careers-and-news content built around "gigawatts of compute in 6 months," not a self-serve console. 4 min read Updated 2026-09-14 (PowerGPU prices live from the sheet) ## FluidStack vs PowerGPU at a glance FluidStack Neocloud turned AI-factory builder: dedicated, multi-year contracts for a handful of large labs PowerGPU Fixed prices at market median × 0.70, crypto only, verified datacenters | | FluidStack | PowerGPU | | --- | --- | --- | | Billing | Not published — no live self-serve rate card as of the date checked | Per second, no minimum, price locked at deploy | | Payment | Not published for self-serve; large deals are contracted and invoiced | Crypto only — USDT (TRC-20/ERC-20), BTC, XMR, LTC, ETH, TRX, SOL | | Identity | Enterprise sales process for capacity deals; no public self-serve sign-up found | Email + password. No KYC, no card, no stored IP addresses | | Free credit | None published | None — every hour is ≥30% under the market median instead | | Cheaper tier | Not applicable — there is no published on-demand tier to discount | Interruptible flat −50% (no auction) · reserved −35% (3+ months) | | Regions | Sites reported in the UK, France, Iceland, Norway, Argentina and the US, built for named-customer contracts rather than self-serve zones | 32 regions on 5 continents, verified datacenters only | | Minimums | Multi-year dedicated-cluster contracts, by the company's own public description of its business | None — 1× to 8× GPUs at the same per-GPU price | | Storage | Not published | $0.08/GB/month NVMe, volumes survive instances | | Egress | Not published | $0.01/GB in and out, every region | | Access | Sales-led onboarding; no public self-serve console or API documentation found at the date checked | Containers or full KVM VMs, SSH, Jupyter, REST API, CLI, Python SDK | FluidStack column: as published on fluidstack.io on 2026-09-04. Details change — verify before you decide. ## FluidStack vs PowerGPU prices, GPU by GPU Public on-demand list prices per GPU-hour on FluidStack'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. Configurations differ (node sizes, tiers, regions); the note beside each card says which FluidStack price is quoted. Negative differences mean FluidStack is cheaper on that card. ## When to stay with FluidStack - You are, or are becoming, one of the small number of named customers FluidStack builds gigawatt-scale dedicated capacity for — that relationship is not something a per-GPU-hour public cloud replaces. - An invoiced, multi-year, capex-style infrastructure contract is what your finance and procurement teams actually want. ## Why teams switch to PowerGPU - You need a GPU today, not a sales process: PowerGPU is a self-serve console with instances live in about 30 seconds, no contract and no minimum term. - A published rate card anyone can read before signing up, fixed at the public market median × 0.70, instead of no public pricing at all. - 32 self-serve regions on five continents versus a handful of dedicated sites built for named contracts. - Crypto payment with no KYC and no procurement cycle — the price sheet is the quote. ## Switching from FluidStack: what maps to what | On FluidStack | On PowerGPU | | --- | --- | | Private Cloud / dedicated cluster contract (sales-led) | Reserved instance, flat −35% from 3 months, or a multi-node InfiniBand cluster quoted from the public sheet — no sales call for a handful of GPUs | | (no published self-serve tier) | On-demand instance, per second, fixed at market median × 0.70, live in about 30 seconds | | Enterprise / KYB onboarding | Email sign-up, crypto top-up, deploy | *the whole migration, from the shell* ``` pip install powergpu export POWERGPU_API_KEY=pg_live_… # console → API keys powergpu launch --gpu h100-sxm --template pytorch --disk 100 --volume data:/data # ✓ instance i-52ab77c1 running (24.1s) · $1.428/hr · per second powergpu stop i-52ab77c1 # billing ends this second ``` Data moves the boring way: rsync or rclone from your FluidStack 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 ## FluidStack alternative: FAQ **Is PowerGPU cheaper than FluidStack?** There is nothing public to compare against: fluidstack.io's pricing page returned HTTP 404 and its homepage carried no rate card when checked 2026-09-04 — the company has pivoted to invoiced, multi-year Private Cloud contracts, reported at about 62% of revenue by the end of 2024 versus 38% for the original on-demand marketplace. PowerGPU publishes on-demand prices fixed at the public market median × 0.70 before you sign up for anything. **Can I still rent a single FluidStack GPU by the hour?** No self-serve page, console, sign-up flow or API documentation was reachable from fluidstack.io as of 2026-09-04. Treat any hourly figure quoted for FluidStack elsewhere as unconfirmed against the company's current site. **What does FluidStack sell now?** Dedicated, contracted AI-factory capacity for a small number of large customers, most visibly reported alongside Anthropic's compute build-out, across sites in the US, UK, France, Iceland, Norway and Argentina, funded by a $1.5B round that valued the company at about $18B (2026). --- Try the switch for the price of a coffee Top up $40 in USDT or Monero, deploy the same image you run on FluidStack, and benchmark it. No card, no KYC, per-second billing — stop it the minute you are done. FluidStack and its logo are trademarks of their owner, used here only to identify the compared service; PowerGPU is not affiliated with FluidStack. 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/fluidstack · Site index for AI assistants: https://powergpu.ai/llms.txt · Full content: https://powergpu.ai/llms-full.txt