--- title: "io.net Alternative (2026): GPU Prices vs PowerGPU" description: "io.net vs PowerGPU: H100 SXM price, billing, payment (crypto, no KYC) and what maps to what when you switch. Public list prices checked 2026-09-03." url: https://powergpu.ai/alternatives/io-net last_modified: 2026-09-14T11:04:20+00:00 prices_as_of: 2026-09-14 site: PowerGPU (powergpu.ai) --- Alternative · prices checked 2026-09-03 # io.net alternative: same NVIDIA GPUs, fixed prices 30% under the market io.net aggregates GPUs from independent suppliers into a decentralized network and sells clusters by the hour, settled in USDC or its IO token. Prices vary by supplier and location; the pitch is scale and crypto-native payments rather than datacenter guarantees. 4 min read Updated 2026-09-14 (PowerGPU prices live from the sheet) ## io.net vs PowerGPU at a glance io.net Decentralized GPU network: clusters aggregated from independent suppliers, paid in crypto PowerGPU Fixed prices at market median × 0.70, crypto only, verified datacenters | | io.net | PowerGPU | | --- | --- | --- | | Billing | Hourly, prepaid | Per second, no minimum, price locked at deploy | | Payment | Crypto (USDC, IO) | Crypto only — USDT (TRC-20/ERC-20), BTC, XMR, LTC, ETH, TRX, SOL | | Identity | Account and wallet | Email + password. No KYC, no card, no stored IP addresses | | Free credit | None | None — every hour is ≥30% under the market median instead | | Cheaper tier | Supplier-set prices vary | Interruptible flat −50% (no auction) · reserved −35% (3+ months) | | Regions | Supplier locations worldwide | 32 regions on 5 continents, verified datacenters only | | Minimums | Cluster deployments, hourly | None — 1× to 8× GPUs at the same per-GPU price | | Storage | Depends on supplier | $0.08/GB/month NVMe, volumes survive instances | | Egress | Not itemised | $0.01/GB in and out, every region | | Access | Clusters (Ray/Kubernetes-style), portal, API | Containers or full KVM VMs, SSH, Jupyter, REST API, CLI, Python SDK | io.net column: as published on io.net on 2026-09-03. Details change — verify before you decide. ## io.net vs PowerGPU prices, GPU by GPU Public on-demand list prices per GPU-hour on io.net's pricing page (2026-09-03) against PowerGPU's fixed rates today — every PowerGPU price is the public marketplace median × 0.70, rounded down, re-checked weekly. | GPU | io.net list | PowerGPU on-demand | PowerGPU interruptible | Difference | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [H100 SXM](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/h100-sxm) (from; varies by supplier and location) | $2.10 | **$1.428** | $0.714 | −32% on PowerGPU | Configurations differ (node sizes, tiers, regions); the note beside each card says which io.net price is quoted. Negative differences mean io.net is cheaper on that card. ## When to stay with io.net - You want very large aggregated clusters and are happy to pay in IO tokens. - Supplier-to-supplier variability in hardware, network and uptime is acceptable for your batch jobs. ## Why teams switch to PowerGPU - Same crypto-native payments (USDT, BTC, Monero, Solana…) but on verified Tier-III datacenter machines with a 99.9% SLA. - Fixed, published prices at market median × 0.70 instead of supplier-set rates — and per-second billing. - Single GPUs in 30 seconds, persistent volumes, SSH/Jupyter, full VMs, 76 models from RTX 3060 to B300. ## Switching from io.net: what maps to what | On io.net | On PowerGPU | | --- | --- | | Cluster of supplier GPUs | Instance (1–8 GPUs on one verified machine) or InfiniBand cluster | | USDC / IO payment | USDT, BTC, XMR, LTC, ETH, TRX or SOL top-up | | Supplier storage | Volumes, $0.08/GB/month | *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 io.net 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 | io.net | PowerGPU | | --- | --- | --- | | 1× H100 SXM, 730 hours on-demand | $1,533 | **$1,042** | | 1× H100 SXM, 8 h/day × 20 days | $336 | **$228** | | Same 160 hours, PowerGPU interruptible | — | **$114** | | 500 GB of storage, one month | Depends on supplier | $40 | Run your own schedule through the [cost calculator](https://powergpu.ai/calculator) — it adds storage and bandwidth and compares against the marketplace median. ## io.net alternative: FAQ **Is PowerGPU cheaper than io.net?** io.net advertises H100 SXM capacity from about $2.10/hr depending on supplier (checked 2026-09-03); PowerGPU fixes the H100 SXM at the public market median × 0.70 on datacenter machines, with a flat −50% interruptible tier below that. **Can I pay PowerGPU in crypto like io.net?** Yes — USDT (TRC-20 or ERC-20), Bitcoin, Monero, Litecoin, Ethereum, TRON and Solana, with no KYC. The balance is kept in USD and drawn down per second. --- Try the switch for the price of a coffee Top up $40 in USDT or Monero, deploy the same image you run on io.net, and benchmark it. No card, no KYC, per-second billing — stop it the minute you are done. io.net and its logo are trademarks of their owner, used here only to identify the compared service; PowerGPU is not affiliated with io.net. 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/io-net · Site index for AI assistants: https://powergpu.ai/llms.txt · Full content: https://powergpu.ai/llms-full.txt