--- title: "Genesis Cloud Alternative (2026): GPU Prices vs PowerGPU" description: "Genesis Cloud vs PowerGPU: H100 SXM 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/genesis-cloud 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 # Genesis Cloud alternative: same NVIDIA GPUs, fixed prices 30% under the market Genesis Cloud is a Munich-based GPU cloud provider that built its capacity on Nordic sites, first in Iceland, then Kristiansand, Norway with Bulk Infrastructure Group. Genesis Cloud GmbH (Handelsregister Munich, HRB 250051) entered formal liquidation under German law on 7 August 2025 and remains registered "GmbH i.L." (in liquidation), with a continuation filing as recently as 25 June 2026; third-party pricing trackers still listed its capacity for sale through 2026. genesiscloud.com could not be reached directly for this fiche (persistent TLS error, 3 attempts, checked 2026-09-04), so its current operating status beyond the registry filing is not independently confirmed here. 4 min read Updated 2026-09-14 (PowerGPU prices live from the sheet) ## 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](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/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](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/h200) (from; secondhand, not confirmed on genesiscloud.com directly) | $2.80 | **$2.791** | $1.395 | +0% on PowerGPU | | [B200](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/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 | *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 Genesis Cloud 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 | 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](https://powergpu.ai/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. --- *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/genesis-cloud · Site index for AI assistants: https://powergpu.ai/llms.txt · Full content: https://powergpu.ai/llms-full.txt