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 from; varies by supplier and location | $2.10 | $1.587 | $0.793 | −24% 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 |
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) · $1.587/hr · per second
powergpu stop i-52ab77c1 # billing ends this secondData moves the boring way: rsync or rclone from your io.net 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 | io.net | PowerGPU |
|---|---|---|
| 1× H100 SXM, 730 hours on-demand | $1,533 | $1,159 |
| 1× H100 SXM, 8 h/day × 20 days | $336 | $254 |
| Same 160 hours, PowerGPU interruptible | — | $127 |
| 500 GB of storage, one month | Depends on supplier | $40 |
Run your own schedule through the cost 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 $30 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.
