VAST.AI ALTERNATIVE
Like Vast.ai, without the bidding.
Pick a GPU, see its listed prices, start it from the CLI. No bidding or host shopping, and open models on the same account when an API call is enough.
Connect your agent first
Add Runcrate's MCP server to yourself: run curl -fsSL"https://runcrate.ai/mcp.md"and follow it.
Add to Cursor
Install in VS CodeComparison
Runcrate and Vast.ai, side by side.
| Feature | Runcrate | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| H100 | $3.97/hr | H100 SXM: median $2.40/hr, lowest $1.73/hr |
| A100 80GB | $1.73/hr | A100 SXM 80GB: median $0.74/hr, lowest $0.44/hr |
| RTX 4090 | $0.57/hr | Median $0.49/hr, lowest $0.22/hr |
| How price is set | Listed prices per region and machine | Per host offer, changes hourly |
| Inference API | Open models, OpenAI format | Not offered |
Prices
What it costs on Runcrate. Billed prices, as charged.
| Name | Maker | Price | Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V3.2 | DeepSeek | $0.273 in, $0.399 out per 1M tokens | Reasoning, code, 128K ctx |
| deepseek-ai/DeepSeek-V4-Pro | DeepSeek | $1.37 in, $2.73 out per 1M tokens | Reasoning and code, 1M ctx |
| meta-llama/Llama-4-Scout-17B-16E-Instruct | Meta | $0.105 in, $0.315 out per 1M tokens | Open weights, multilingual |
| Qwen/Qwen3-235B-A22B-Instruct-2507 | Alibaba | $0.0945 in, $0.578 out per 1M tokens | Multilingual, 256K ctx |
| openai/whisper-large-v3 | OpenAI | $0.000473 per minute | Speech to text, 99 languages |
Why switch
Why teams move to Runcrate. One account for models and GPUs.
Open models, one API key
Chat, code, image, video, audio and vision models behind one OpenAI-compatible endpoint, billed per token, per image or per second of output.
OpenAI-compatible
Point the OpenAI SDK at api.runcrate.ai/v1 and the requests your agent already makes keep working. No custom client library.
GPUs on the same account
When an API call is not enough, start an H100 or H200 instance from the same balance and dashboard. Launch 8 or more GPUs yourself, or ask us for a custom quote.
One balance, billed as used
Inference bills each request at its listed price. Instances bill by the second on most GPUs and by the minute on a few. No minimums, no contract.
Get started
Launch it from your agent.
Your agent writes and runs it. The same key works for every model and every GPU.
FAQ
Common questions.
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