This guide compares on-demand GPU vendors to help Machine Learning practitioners pick their preferred platform. Whether you're an enthusiast, newcomer or expert this guide will help you track updates and keep your costs low.
- "-" means not available
- "???" means maybe available
- GPU prices are per hour
- Storage prices are per GB/month
| GPU Vendor | K80 Price | V100 Price | Storage Price | Last Updated |
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| Google Colaboratory (Free TPU***) | Free | -@ | 15GB max | 8-Sep-18 |
| Kaggle Kernels (Free TPU***) | Free | - | 8GB max | 8-Sep-18 |
| Salamander | $0.36 | $1.17 | $0.10 | 8-Sep-18 |
| Paperspace | $0.59 | $2.30 | $0.10 | 8-Sep-18 |
| Vast.AI | $0.64 | $2.30 | - | 19-Sep-18 |
| Oracle Cloud | - | $2.25 | $0.04 | 8-Sep-18 |
| Spell | $0.9 | $3.06 | - | 24-Oct-19 |
| Crestle | $0.59 | - | $0.42 | 8-Sep-18 |
| Microsoft Azure | $0.87 | $2.95 | $0.10 | 8-Sep-18 |
| LeaderGPU | - | $3.00 | $0.13 | 8-Sep-18 |
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | $0.90 | $3.06 | $0.10 | 8-Sep-18 |
| DeepCognition | $0.90 | $3.06 | ??? | 8-Sep-18 |
| Google Cloud Platform (GCP) | $1.21 | $3.24 | $0.03 | 8-Sep-18 |
| FloydHub | $1.20 | $4.20 | 100GB included | 8-Sep-18 |
| IBM Cloud | $2.65 | - | ??? | 8-Sep-18 |
| Alibaba Cloud | - | ??? | ??? | 8-Sep-18 |
| Lambda Labs | - | ??? | ??? | 8-Sep-18 |
| Nvidia Cloud | ??? | ??? | ??? | 8-Sep-18 |
| Riseml | - | ??? | ??? | 8-Sep-18 |
| Valohai | ??? | ??? | ??? | 8-Sep-18 |
| VScaler | ??? | ??? | ??? | 8-Sep-18 |
| Hostkey | ??? | - | ??? | 6-Oct-20 |
- *** Colaboratory provides free access to Google's TPUs v2, and Kaggle has TPUs v3.
- @ - It's now possible to connect Google Colaboratory to a V100 by connecting it to a GCP instance.
| GPU Vendor | P100 Price | GTX 1080 Price | Storage Price | Last Updated |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Snark AI | $0.10 | - | ??? | 8-Sep-18 |
| Vast.AI | $1.65 | $0.10 | - | 8-Sep-18 |
| Oracle Cloud | $1.28 | - | $0.04 | 8-Sep-18 |
| Vector Dash | - | $0.51 | ??? | 8-Sep-18 |
| LeaderGPU | $1.50 | $0.75 | $0.13 | 8-Sep-18 |
| Paperspace | $1.72 | - | $0.10 | 8-Sep-18 |
| Microsoft Azure | $2.00 | - | $0.13 | 8-Sep-18 |
| Ovh | - | $1.15 | $0.09 | 8-Sep-18 |
| Neptune ML | $2.15 | - | $0.28 | 8-Sep-18 |
| Google Cloud Platform (GCP) | $2.22 | - | $0.03 | 8-Sep-18 |
| Alibaba Cloud | ??? | - | ??? | 8-Sep-18 |
| Exoscale | ??? | - | ??? | 8-Sep-18 |
| IBM Cloud | ??? | - | ??? | 8-Sep-18 |
| Hostkey | ??? | - | ??? | 6-Oct-20 |
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Google Colaboratory, Kaggle Kernels & Crestle are only for Jupyter Notebooks and limited to 6 / 12 / 24 hour sessions
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The prices for Google Cloud Platform assume you've attached the GPUs to a "n1-standard-16" instance.
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250GB Paperspace volumes are $0.04 per GB; larger or smaller volumes cost more
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Google Cloud Platform gives $300 credits to anyone
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AWS gives $110 credits to students, in partnership with GitHub
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Azure gives $100 credits to students
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Paperspace gives $15 credits to fast.ai students
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Vast.AI, DeepCognition, Snark AI, Salamander & Crestle give approximately $1 credits to anyone
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Hostkey give free trials to science projects and competitions
Nvidia manufactures all the GPUs listed here
| GPU | TFlops (double / single precision) |
|---|---|
| K80 | 1.9 / 5.6 |
| V100 | 7.8 / 15.7 |
| P100 | 5.3 / 10.6 |
| GTX 1080 | 8.8 / 8.8 |