--- title: "Vultr GPU Alternative (2026): GPU Prices vs PowerGPU" description: "Vultr 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/vultr 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 # Vultr GPU alternative: same NVIDIA GPUs, fixed prices 30% under the market Vultr is a general-purpose cloud (compute, Kubernetes, storage) that also sells GPU cloud instances and 8× HGX bare-metal servers in 32 regions, with fractional GPU slices and one- to three-year committed-use discounts. Billing is hourly and payment is by card or PayPal. 4 min read Updated 2026-09-14 (PowerGPU prices live from the sheet) ## Vultr vs PowerGPU at a glance Vultr General cloud with GPU instances and bare metal in 32 regions PowerGPU Fixed prices at market median × 0.70, crypto only, verified datacenters | | Vultr | PowerGPU | | --- | --- | --- | | Billing | Hourly | Per second, no minimum, price locked at deploy | | Payment | Card, PayPal | Crypto only — USDT (TRC-20/ERC-20), BTC, XMR, LTC, ETH, TRX, SOL | | Identity | Card and account verification | Email + password. No KYC, no card, no stored IP addresses | | Free credit | Promotional credits | None — every hour is ≥30% under the market median instead | | Cheaper tier | Committed-use discounts (1–3 years) | Interruptible flat −50% (no auction) · reserved −35% (3+ months) | | Regions | 32 | 32 regions on 5 continents, verified datacenters only | | Minimums | None (fractional GPUs available) | None — 1× to 8× GPUs at the same per-GPU price | | Storage | Block storage ~$0.10/GB/mo | $0.08/GB/month NVMe, volumes survive instances | | Egress | Bandwidth allowance, then per GB | $0.01/GB in and out, every region | | Access | VMs, bare metal, Kubernetes, API | Containers or full KVM VMs, SSH, Jupyter, REST API, CLI, Python SDK | Vultr column: as published on vultr.com on 2026-09-03. Details change — verify before you decide. ## Vultr vs PowerGPU prices, GPU by GPU Public on-demand list prices per GPU-hour on Vultr'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 | Vultr list | PowerGPU on-demand | PowerGPU interruptible | Difference | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [H100 SXM](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/h100-sxm) (8× HGX H100 bare metal, $23.92/hr ÷ 8) | $2.99 | **$1.428** | $0.714 | −52% on PowerGPU | | [A100 PCIE](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/a100-pcie) (Cloud GPU, 80 GB) | $2.40 | **$0.374** | $0.187 | −84% on PowerGPU | | [L40S](https://powergpu.ai/gpu/l40s) (Cloud GPU) | $1.67 | **$0.514** | $0.257 | −69% on PowerGPU | Configurations differ (node sizes, tiers, regions); the note beside each card says which Vultr price is quoted. Negative differences mean Vultr is cheaper on that card. ## When to stay with Vultr - You want compute, object storage, load balancers and GPUs on one Vultr account. - A fractional GPU slice is all your inference service needs. - You can commit to three-year terms for the deepest Vultr discounts. ## Why teams switch to PowerGPU - Per-second billing and fixed per-GPU prices at market median × 0.70 — the H100 SXM is well under Vultr's $2.99 bare-metal rate, and no 8× minimum. - Consumer cards (RTX 5090, 4090) and workstation cards Vultr does not carry. - Crypto, no KYC, and a flat −50% interruptible tier without a multi-year commitment. ## Switching from Vultr: what maps to what | On Vultr | On PowerGPU | | --- | --- | | Cloud GPU instance | Instance (container or full VM) | | 8× HGX bare metal | 8× SXM machine at the same per-GPU price, or a cluster | | Block storage | Volume, $0.08/GB/month | | Committed-use discount | Reserved instances, −35% from 3 months | *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 Vultr 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 | Vultr | PowerGPU | | --- | --- | --- | | 1× H100 SXM, 730 hours on-demand | $2,183 | **$1,042** | | 1× H100 SXM, 8 h/day × 20 days | $478 | **$228** | | Same 160 hours, PowerGPU interruptible | — | **$114** | | 500 GB of storage, one month | Block storage ~$0.10/GB/mo | $40 | Run your own schedule through the [cost calculator](https://powergpu.ai/calculator) — it adds storage and bandwidth and compares against the marketplace median. ## Vultr GPU alternative: FAQ **Is PowerGPU cheaper than Vultr for GPUs?** Yes: Vultr's self-serve H100 is an 8× bare-metal server at $23.92/hr ($2.99 per GPU) and the A100 80 GB PCIe lists at $2.40/hr (checked 2026-09-03); PowerGPU fixes both at the public market median × 0.70 and rents single cards per second. **Does PowerGPU offer fractional GPUs like Vultr?** No — every instance gets whole, dedicated GPUs. The cheapest whole cards (RTX 3060, A2000, T4) start at a few cents per hour, which covers most fractional use cases. --- Try the switch for the price of a coffee Top up $40 in USDT or Monero, deploy the same image you run on Vultr, and benchmark it. No card, no KYC, per-second billing — stop it the minute you are done. Vultr and its logo are trademarks of their owner, used here only to identify the compared service; PowerGPU is not affiliated with Vultr. 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/vultr · Site index for AI assistants: https://powergpu.ai/llms.txt · Full content: https://powergpu.ai/llms-full.txt