Genesis Cloud vs PowerGPU at a glance
Genesis Cloud
Munich GPU cloud on Nordic capacity; GmbH in formal liquidation since August 2025
PowerGPU
Fixed prices at market median × 0.70, crypto only, verified datacenters
| Genesis Cloud | PowerGPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing | Reported as per second or per hour depending on instance type (secondhand, not confirmed on genesiscloud.com directly) | Per second, no minimum, price locked at deploy |
| Payment | Not confirmed: genesiscloud.com could not be reached directly and no secondary source states accepted payment methods | Crypto only — USDT (TRC-20/ERC-20), BTC, XMR, LTC, ETH, TRX, SOL |
| Identity | Not confirmed, for the same reason | Email + password. No KYC, no card, no stored IP addresses |
| Free credit | Not confirmed: none found in the sources checked | None — every hour is ≥30% under the market median instead |
| Cheaper tier | Not confirmed: no spot or preemptible tier found in the sources checked | Interruptible flat −50% (no auction) · reserved −35% (3+ months) |
| Regions | Company blog posts describe Kristiansand, Norway and an earlier Iceland site; not independently confirmed as currently live | 32 regions on 5 continents, verified datacenters only |
| Minimums | At least the H100 SXM is sold by the 8-GPU node rather than per card, per third-party pricing trackers | None — 1× to 8× GPUs at the same per-GPU price |
| Storage | Not confirmed: none found in the sources checked | $0.08/GB/month NVMe, volumes survive instances |
| Egress | Not confirmed: none found in the sources checked | $0.01/GB in and out, every region |
| Access | A self-serve console is implied by Genesis Cloud's own per-GPU product pages (URLs found by search), not independently confirmed | Containers or full KVM VMs, SSH, Jupyter, REST API, CLI, Python SDK |
Genesis Cloud column: as published on genesiscloud.com on 2026-09-04. Details change — verify before you decide.
Genesis Cloud vs PowerGPU prices, GPU by GPU
Public on-demand list prices per GPU-hour on Genesis Cloud'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 | Genesis Cloud list | PowerGPU on-demand | PowerGPU interruptible | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H100 SXM 8× node $17.52/hr ÷ 8; secondhand, not confirmed on genesiscloud.com directly | $2.19 | $1.428 | $0.714 | −35% on PowerGPU |
| H200 from; secondhand, not confirmed on genesiscloud.com directly | $2.80 | $2.791 | $1.395 | +0% on PowerGPU |
| B200 from; secondhand, not confirmed on genesiscloud.com directly | $3.75 | $5.425 | $2.712 | +45% on PowerGPU |
Configurations differ (node sizes, tiers, regions); the note beside each card says which Genesis Cloud price is quoted. Negative differences mean Genesis Cloud is cheaper on that card.
When to stay with Genesis Cloud
- Data, images or a running job are already on Genesis Cloud, and the near-term switching cost is judged lower than the continuity risk described below.
- The reported 8× H100 node at $17.52/hr, about $2.19/GPU-hr, is a genuinely low headline rate if a workload can use all 8 GPUs at once.
Why teams switch to PowerGPU
- Continuity: Genesis Cloud GmbH (Munich, HRB 250051) has been in formal liquidation since 7 August 2025, still active as of a 25 June 2026 filing, worth weighing before committing new workloads there.
- No node minimum: PowerGPU rents 1× to 8× GPUs at the same per-GPU price; Genesis Cloud's H100 is reported sold by the 8-GPU node even for single-GPU jobs.
- Published, re-checked pricing: every PowerGPU rate sits on the public sheet at market median × 0.70; Genesis Cloud's own pricing pages could not be reached directly during this review.
- Crypto settlement with no KYC and 32 regions on five continents, against two reported Nordic sites.
Switching from Genesis Cloud: what maps to what
| On Genesis Cloud | On PowerGPU |
|---|---|
| 8× H100 node, reported ~$2.19/GPU-hr | 1× to 8× H100 SXM, same per-GPU price, fixed at market median × 0.70 |
| Card or other payment (unconfirmed, site unreachable) | Crypto top-up: USDT, BTC, XMR, LTC, ETH, TRX, SOL; no card, no KYC |
| 2 reported Nordic sites (Norway, Iceland) | 32 regions on five continents |
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 secondData moves the boring way: rsync or rclone from your Genesis Cloud 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 | Genesis Cloud | PowerGPU |
|---|---|---|
| 1× H100 SXM, 730 hours on-demand | $1,599 | $1,042 |
| 1× H100 SXM, 8 h/day × 20 days | $350 | $228 |
| Same 160 hours, PowerGPU interruptible | — | $114 |
| 500 GB of storage, one month | Not confirmed: none found in the sources checked | $40 |
Run your own schedule through the cost calculator — it adds storage and bandwidth and compares against the marketplace median.
Genesis Cloud alternative: FAQ
Is Genesis Cloud still operating in 2026?
Genesis Cloud GmbH (Handelsregister Munich, HRB 250051) entered formal liquidation on 7 August 2025 and is still registered "i.L." as of a continuation filing on 25 June 2026; third-party pricing trackers still listed its capacity in 2026. Its own site could not be reached directly for this fiche, TLS error, checked 2026-09-04, so operating status beyond the registry filing is not independently confirmed.
Is PowerGPU cheaper than Genesis Cloud?
On the one price found with reasonable confidence, an 8× H100 SXM node at $17.52/hr, about $2.19/GPU-hr, via third-party pricing trackers rather than genesiscloud.com directly, PowerGPU's H100 SXM at the public market median × 0.70 is in the same range or lower, with no 8-GPU minimum (checked 2026-09-04).
Where are Genesis Cloud's datacenters?
Public reporting points to Kristiansand, Norway, built with Bulk Infrastructure Group, and an earlier Iceland site; current status could not be confirmed directly from genesiscloud.com, checked 2026-09-04.
Try the switch for the price of a coffee
Top up $40 in USDT or Monero, deploy the same image you run on Genesis Cloud, and benchmark it. No card, no KYC, per-second billing — stop it the minute you are done.
Genesis Cloud and its logo are trademarks of their owner, used here only to identify the compared service; PowerGPU is not affiliated with Genesis Cloud. NVIDIA GPU names are trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation.
