The best GPU clouds, according to hackers
6 GPU clouds were recommended on Hacker News between November 2025 and November 2026. We rank them by how many separate people recommend each one, and 4 earn the Hacker Approved badge.
Top picks
The three most recommended GPU clouds with the badge. Each figure is 5 people. RecommendsCriticizes One comment
Strong GPU serverless SDK and API
Recommended for easy serverless GPU and Python compute, sandboxes and endpoints, billed by execution time. Critics mention slow cold starts and outages.
Wide choice of GPUs on demand
Rent GPUs by the hour from many hosts, often far cheaper than buying hardware, for training or testing models. Prices vary with demand.
Cheap hourly GPU rental
People recommend RunPod for renting GPUs by the hour, which makes fine-tuning and running large models cheap compared with buying hardware.
All 6 GPU clouds, ranked
Select a column heading to sort. Approval share is recommenders out of everyone who gave an opinion; the tick on each bar marks the 2 to 1 line the badge needs. Months counts the months, out of 13, in which someone recommended it.
| Rank | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Modal | 38 | 12 | 76% | 11 | — | Approved |
| 2 | Vast.ai | 37 | 1 | 97% | 9 | — | Approved |
| 3 | RunPod | 28 | 5 | 85% | 11 | — | Approved |
| 4 | Verda GPU cloud | 10 | 1 | 91% | 4 | — | Approved |
| 5 | Lambda GPU Cloud | 9 | 2 | 82% | 5 | — | — |
| 6 | Nebius GPU rental | 5 | 3 | 63% | 4 | — | — |
How we rank
Rank is the number of separate people who recommend a product in a Hacker News comment over the past year. Someone who praises the same GPU cloud in five threads counts once.
The badge goes to GPU clouds that at least 10 people recommend, with recommenders outnumbering critics at least 2 to 1, recommended in at least 4 of the 13 months.
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