product · May 21, 2026
Vast.ai Maintains Lowest Median Marketplace Price at $0.15 per Hour
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Thunder Compute published a May 2026 comparison showing Vast.ai with the lowest median marketplace price of approximately $0.15/hr across providers. Vast.ai lists options such as A100 80GB at $0.41/hr and RTX 4090 at $0.18/hr in recent benchmarks. The platform competes with Hyperstack at $0.50/hr and RunPod at $0.49/hr for similar workloads. Thunder Compute previously ranked Vast.ai as a budget option for batch rendering experiments.
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