Hyperstack vs PowerGPU at a glance
Hyperstack
European GPU cloud with per-minute billing and NVLink options
PowerGPU
Fixed prices at market median × 0.70, crypto only, verified datacenters
| Hyperstack | PowerGPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing | Per minute | Per second, no minimum, price locked at deploy |
| Payment | Card (Stripe); invoices for reservations | Crypto only — USDT (TRC-20/ERC-20), BTC, XMR, LTC, ETH, TRX, SOL |
| Identity | Card | 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 | Reservations (e.g. H100 SXM from $2.72) | Interruptible flat −50% (no auction) · reserved −35% (3+ months) |
| Regions | Europe and North America | 32 regions on 5 continents, verified datacenters only |
| Minimums | None | None — 1× to 8× GPUs at the same per-GPU price |
| Storage | ~$0.07/GB/mo | $0.08/GB/month NVMe, volumes survive instances |
| Egress | Free | $0.01/GB in and out, every region |
| Access | VMs, SSH, API, Terraform | Containers or full KVM VMs, SSH, Jupyter, REST API, CLI, Python SDK |
Hyperstack column: as published on hyperstack.cloud on 2026-09-03. Details change — verify before you decide.
Hyperstack vs PowerGPU prices, GPU by GPU
Public on-demand list prices per GPU-hour on Hyperstack'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 | Hyperstack list | PowerGPU on-demand | PowerGPU interruptible | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H200 SXM | $3.99 | $3.058 | $1.529 | −23% on PowerGPU |
| H100 SXM SXM · reserved from $2.72 | $3.20 | $1.587 | $0.793 | −50% on PowerGPU |
| H100 NVL NVLink | $2.60 | $1.877 | $0.938 | −28% on PowerGPU |
| H100 PCIE reserved from $1.75 | $2.50 | $2.147 | $1.073 | −14% on PowerGPU |
| A100 SXM4 SXM | $1.60 | $0.583 | $0.291 | −64% on PowerGPU |
| A100 PCIE | $1.35 | $0.662 | $0.331 | −51% on PowerGPU |
| L40 | $1.00 | $0.234 | $0.117 | −77% on PowerGPU |
| RTX A6000 | $0.50 | $0.281 | $0.140 | −44% on PowerGPU |
| RTX A4000 | $0.15 | $0.066 | $0.033 | −56% on PowerGPU |
Configurations differ (node sizes, tiers, regions); the note beside each card says which Hyperstack price is quoted. Negative differences mean Hyperstack is cheaper on that card.
When to stay with Hyperstack
- EU data residency on renewable-powered datacenters is a hard requirement.
- You want NVLink or InfiniBand-connected H100 fleets on a reservation with invoicing.
- Terraform-managed VM fleets are your operating model.
Why teams switch to PowerGPU
- Price: Hyperstack lists the H100 SXM at $3.20/hr and the A100 SXM at $1.60/hr; PowerGPU fixes both at market median × 0.70 and re-checks weekly.
- Consumer cards (RTX 5090, 4090, 3090) for diffusion and quantized LLM work, absent from Hyperstack.
- Per-second billing, crypto with no KYC, and 32 regions including Asia-Pacific and South America.
Switching from Hyperstack: what maps to what
| On Hyperstack | On PowerGPU |
|---|---|
| VM | Instance (container or full KVM VM) |
| Volume | Volume, $0.08/GB/month |
| Reservation | Reserved instance (−35%, capacity held) |
| Hyperstack API / Terraform | REST API, CLI, Python SDK |
pip install powergpu
export POWERGPU_API_KEY=pg_live_… # console → API keys
powergpu launch --gpu h200 --template pytorch --disk 100 --volume data:/data
# ✓ instance i-52ab77c1 running (24.1s) · $3.058/hr · per second
powergpu stop i-52ab77c1 # billing ends this secondData moves the boring way: rsync or rclone from your Hyperstack machine to a PowerGPU volume, which then mounts on every future instance in seconds. Templates for PyTorch, vLLM, ComfyUI and Ollama are official images; anything else runs from its OCI reference.
A real month, costed
| Scenario | Hyperstack | PowerGPU |
|---|---|---|
| 1× H200, 730 hours on-demand | $2,913 | $2,232 |
| 1× H200, 8 h/day × 20 days | $638 | $489 |
| Same 160 hours, PowerGPU interruptible | — | $245 |
| 500 GB of storage, one month | ~$0.07/GB/mo | $40 |
Run your own schedule through the cost calculator — it adds storage and bandwidth and compares against the marketplace median.
Hyperstack alternative: FAQ
Is PowerGPU cheaper than Hyperstack?
On-demand, yes on every overlapping card (Hyperstack H100 SXM $3.20, A100 SXM $1.60, checked 2026-09-03 — PowerGPU fixes them at market median × 0.70). Hyperstack's reserved H100 SXM at $2.72 is still above PowerGPU on-demand.
Does PowerGPU have European regions?
Ten: Amsterdam, London, Paris, Frankfurt, Warsaw, Stockholm, Helsinki, Milan, Madrid and Bucharest — all Tier-III facilities.
Try the switch for the price of a coffee
Top up $30 in USDT or Monero, deploy the same image you run on Hyperstack, and benchmark it. No card, no KYC, per-second billing — stop it the minute you are done.
Hyperstack and its logo are trademarks of their owner, used here only to identify the compared service; PowerGPU is not affiliated with Hyperstack. NVIDIA GPU names are trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation.
