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 8× HGX H100 bare metal, $23.92/hr ÷ 8 | $2.99 | $1.587 | $0.793 | −47% on PowerGPU |
| A100 PCIE Cloud GPU, 80 GB | $2.40 | $0.662 | $0.331 | −72% on PowerGPU |
| L40S Cloud GPU | $1.67 | $0.466 | $0.233 | −72% 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 |
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 Vultr 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 | Vultr | PowerGPU |
|---|---|---|
| 1× H100 SXM, 730 hours on-demand | $2,183 | $1,159 |
| 1× H100 SXM, 8 h/day × 20 days | $478 | $254 |
| Same 160 hours, PowerGPU interruptible | — | $127 |
| 500 GB of storage, one month | Block storage ~$0.10/GB/mo | $40 |
Run your own schedule through the cost 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 $30 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.
