Neocloud GPU pricing: what neoclouds are and what they charge
A neocloud is a cloud provider built specifically around GPU compute for AI: instead of a hyperscaler's catalog of hundreds of services, the product is GPU capacity itself, sold as instances, bare metal and clusters at much lower per-GPU-hour rates. We verify prices across 20 neoclouds and both tracked hyperscalers (AWS, Azure) every day; the table below is today's ranking, not a claim from a blog post.
The hyperscaler median covers the two hyperscalers we track (AWS, Azure) at posted on-demand rates, before negotiated discounts; methodology and caveats on the methodology page.
Neocloud vs hyperscaler pricing, verified 2026-07-18
| Provider | Cheapest H100 (on-demand) | Cheapest A100 (on-demand) | Cheapest overall | Verified | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Voltage Park neocloud | $1.99 | – | $1.99 H100 on-demand | 2026-07-18 | Try → |
| Spheron neocloud | $2.01 | $1.48 | $0.53 RTX 4090 on-demand | 2026-07-18 | Try → |
| TensorDock neocloud | $2.25 | $1.50 | $0.10 RTX A4000 on-demand | 2026-07-18 | Try → |
| Hyperstack neocloud | $2.50 | $1.35 | $0.15 RTX A4000 on-demand | 2026-07-18 | Try → |
| Jarvislabs neocloud | $2.69 | $0.89 | $0.44 L4 on-demand | 2026-07-18 | Try → |
| Massed Compute neocloud | $2.73 | $1.35 | $0.35 A30 on-demand | 2026-07-18 | Try → |
| RunPod neocloud | $2.89 | $1.39 | $0.25 RTX A4000 secure cloud | 2026-07-18 | Try → |
| OVHcloud neocloud | $2.99 | $3.07 | $0.60 Quadro RTX 5000 on-demand | 2026-07-18 | Try → |
| DataCrunch neocloud | $3.25 | $1.29 | $0.17 Tesla V100 on-demand | 2026-07-18 | Try → |
| Lambda neocloud | $3.29 | $1.99 | $0.69 Quadro RTX 6000 on-demand | 2026-07-18 | Try → |
| Nebius neocloud | $3.85 | – | $1.35 L40S on-demand | 2026-07-18 | Try → |
| Crusoe neocloud | $3.90 | $2.00 | $1.50 L40S on-demand | 2026-07-18 | Try → |
| Together AI neocloud | $3.99 | – | $3.99 H100 on-demand | 2026-07-18 | Try → |
| CoreWeave neocloud | $6.16 8× min | $2.70 8× min | $1.25 L40 on-demand | 2026-07-18 | Try → |
| Microsoft Azure hyperscaler | $6.98 | $3.40 8× min | $3.40 A100 on-demand | 2026-07-18 | Try → |
| AWS hyperscaler | $12.29 8× min | $4.10 8× min | $0.80 L4 on-demand | 2026-07-18 | Try → |
| Vultr neocloud | – | $2.40 | $1.67 L40S on-demand | 2026-07-18 | Try → |
| SaladCloud neocloud | – | – | $0.12 RTX 3090 community cloud | 2026-07-18 | Try → |
| Modal neocloud | – | – | $0.59 Tesla T4 serverless | 2026-07-18 | Try → |
| Replicate neocloud | – | – | $0.81 Tesla T4 serverless | 2026-07-18 | Try → |
| fal neocloud | – | – | $2.99 RTX PRO 6000 serverless | 2026-07-18 | Try → |
| Fireworks AI neocloud | – | – | $7.00 H100 serverless | 2026-07-18 | Try → |
Tables rank by price, lowest first. Commercial relationships never affect ordering.How we collect and rank prices.
H100 and A100 columns show each provider's cheapest on-demand (firm) rate per GPU; "–" means the provider has no current on-demand listing for that family. "Cheapest overall" is the provider's lowest current rate of any kind, labeled: serverless platforms (fal, Modal, Replicate, Fireworks) bill per second with no VM access, and community or spot capacity is interruptible. Multi-GPU minimums are badged. Full per-GPU comparisons: H100, A100, all GPUs.
How neoclouds are cheaper, honestly
The gap is real but it is not magic, and it is not all margin. Neoclouds skip the hyperscaler cost structure: no thousand-service catalog to maintain, leaner sales and compliance machinery, and often cheaper power and colocation deals. Many run a single hardware generation hard rather than carrying every instance type ever launched. Some resell capacity from marketplaces or independent datacenters, which pushes prices down further in exchange for more variance in reliability. And posted hyperscaler rates are list prices: large committed-spend customers negotiate them down, which narrows the real-world gap even though the public sticker gap stays wide.
What you give up varies by provider: ecosystem depth (managed databases, queues, IAM integration), the deepest compliance portfolios, and sometimes egress-free data movement you did not know you were paying for elsewhere. The hidden-fees matrix and the enterprise matrix track those differences cell by cell, verified at each provider's own documentation.
Every neocloud we track
All 20 GPU-specialized clouds in the index, each with a live profile page: current prices, verified dates and source links.
CoreWeave · Crusoe · DataCrunch · fal · Fireworks AI · Hyperstack · Jarvislabs · Lambda · Massed Compute · Modal · Nebius · OVHcloud · Replicate · RunPod · SaladCloud · Spheron · TensorDock · Together AI · Voltage Park · Vultr
Not tracked as neoclouds: AWS and Azure (hyperscalers, kept in the index as the comparison baseline). The full provider list, including editorial profiles, lives at /providers.
FAQ
A neocloud is a cloud provider built specifically around GPU compute for AI workloads, rather than around a general-purpose service catalog. Where a hyperscaler (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) sells hundreds of services with GPUs as one line item, a neocloud sells GPU capacity as the product: on-demand instances, bare-metal nodes and clusters, usually at much lower per-GPU-hour rates. Examples we track daily include CoreWeave, Crusoe, DataCrunch, fal, Fireworks AI, Hyperstack and 14 others.
Three practical differences. Price: on today's data (2026-07-18) the posted hyperscaler H100 median (AWS and Azure) runs 3.7x the neocloud median ($11.06/hr vs $2.99/hr). Focus: neoclouds ship GPU instances, clusters and fast interconnect, not a catalog of hundreds of adjacent services. Terms: many neoclouds offer free or cheap egress and per-second or per-minute billing, where hyperscalers meter data leaving the cloud. The trade is ecosystem depth: if your stack already lives on a hyperscaler's managed services, leaving has switching costs.
For an H100, the cheapest on-demand neocloud rate we verified on 2026-07-18 is $1.99/hr at Voltage Park. That answer changes as prices move, which is the point of tracking it daily: the table on this page re-ranks every day, and marketplace or spot capacity goes lower still if your job tolerates interruption.
Increasingly yes, with nuance. Several neoclouds run SOC 2 audited datacenters, publish SLAs and carry GDPR paperwork; our enterprise matrix tracks which ones publish what. But the category spans a wide range: a datacenter-grade cloud with published SLAs is a different reliability proposition from a peer-to-peer marketplace of community hosts, even though both are cheaper than a hyperscaler. Interruptible tiers (spot, community) can be reclaimed with little warning by design. For production, match the tier to the workload and read the provider's SLA rather than assuming the category.
We track 20 GPU-specialized clouds daily: CoreWeave, Crusoe, DataCrunch, fal, Fireworks AI, Hyperstack, Jarvislabs, Lambda, Massed Compute, Modal, Nebius, OVHcloud, Replicate, RunPod, SaladCloud, Spheron, TensorDock, Together AI, Voltage Park, Vultr. The label is loose at the edges: it spans large AI clouds like CoreWeave and Lambda, regional clouds like Nebius and DataCrunch, marketplaces like TensorDock, distributed networks like SaladCloud, and serverless GPU platforms like Modal and fal. What unites them is that GPU compute is the product, not a line item.
Related
All live GPU prices · GPU servers and hosting explained · H100 rental prices · A100 rental prices · Serverless GPU pricing · Hidden fees and egress matrix · Enterprise procurement matrix · GPU Rental Price Index (GRPI)