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Vast.ai is a cloud platforms & infrastructure product from Vast.ai, San Francisco, priced at Paid plans. We compared 20 alternatives on published price, free plan, platforms and made-in-India support: 3 have a free plan, 3 are built in India.
Quick answer
The closest alternatives to Vast.ai are Vespa (Free plan), Letta (Free plan), Union.ai (Paid plans), Huawei Cloud (Paid plans) and SambaNova (On request). Vespa is the top-ranked option with a free plan.
There is no free plan
Vast.ai has no free tier. 3 alternatives do, which lets you test with real data before you pay.
Indian support and GST
Vast.ai is built in United States. 3 alternatives are made in India, where GST, TDS and UPI are usually handled natively and support runs on IST.
Ranked by how closely each product matches Vast.ai's category, pricing model, platforms and business size, then by rating. Prices exclude GST.
| # | Software | Starting price | Free plan | Platforms | Made in India | Rating | Compare |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| — | Vast.ai (current) | Paid plans | No | Web | No | 3.9/5 | — |
| 1 |  Vespa | Free plan | Yes | Web | No | 4.3/5 | |
| 2 |  Letta | Free plan | Yes | Web | No | 4.2/5 | |
| 3 |  Union.ai | Paid plans | No | Web | No | 4/5 | |
| 4 |  Huawei Cloud | Paid plans | No | Web | No | 3.9/5 | |
| 5 |  SambaNova | On request | No | Web | No | 3.9/5 | |
| 6 |  Amazon Web Services | Pay as you go | No | Web | No | 4.5/5 | |
| 7 |  Google Cloud Platform | Pay as you go | No | Web | No | 4.5/5 | |
| 8 |  Microsoft Azure | Pay as you go | No | Web | No | 4.5/5 | |
| 9 |  Neysa | Paid plans | No | Web | Yes | 4.2/5 | |
| 10 |  Alibaba Cloud | Pay as you go | No | Web | No | 4.5/5 | |
| 11 |  IBM Cloud | Pay as you go | No | Web | No | 4.5/5 | |
| 12 |  Scaleway | Pay as you go | No | Web | No | 4.5/5 | |
| 13 |  Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | Pay as you go | No | Web | No | 4.4/5 | |
| 14 |  Macgence | Paid plans | No | Web | Yes | 4.2/5 | |
| 15 |  Exoscale | Pay as you go | No | Web | No | 4.5/5 | |
| 16 |  Tencent Cloud | Pay as you go | No | Web | No | 4.4/5 | |
| 17 |  Civo | Pay as you go | No | Web | No | 4.4/5 | |
| 18 |  Google Kubernetes Engine | Pay as you go | No | Web | No | 4.4/5 | |
| 19 |  Amazon EKS | Pay as you go | No | Web | No | 4.4/5 | |
| 20 |  Inferless | Free plan | Yes | Web | Yes | 4.5/5 |
Vespa.ai · Trondheim · Cloud platforms & infrastructure · 4.3/5
AI search platform for vector, text and structured retrieval, recommendations and personalisation at scale.
Free plan
Free plan available
Compared with Vast.ai
Letta · San Francisco · Cloud platforms & infrastructure · 4.2/5
Platform for building stateful AI agents with persistent memory that learn across sessions.
Free plan
Free plan available
Compared with Vast.ai
Union Systems, Inc. · Seattle · Cloud platforms & infrastructure · 4/5
AI and machine learning runtime built on Flyte that runs orchestration workloads inside your own cloud.
Paid plans
Free trial
Huawei Cloud Computing Technologies Co., Ltd. · Cloud platforms & infrastructure · 3.9/5
Public cloud with compute, storage, database and AI services across 34 regions worldwide.
Paid plans
Free trial
SambaNova Systems · Palo Alto · Cloud platforms & infrastructure · 3.9/5
AI platform providing inference, fine-tuning and data-centre hardware for agentic AI workloads.
On request
Quote-based
Amazon Web Services · Seattle · Cloud platforms & infrastructure · 4.5/5
Largest cloud platform with Mumbai and Hyderabad regions.
Pay as you go
Free trial
Google · Mountain View · Cloud platforms & infrastructure · 4.5/5
Cloud with Mumbai and Delhi regions.
Pay as you go
Free trial
Microsoft · Redmond · Cloud platforms & infrastructure · 4.5/5
Cloud platform with Indian regions.
Pay as you go
Free trial
Neysa Networks · Mumbai · Cloud platforms & infrastructure · 4.2/5
AI acceleration cloud offering GPU infrastructure for model training and inference on an open-source stack.
Paid plans
Free trial
Compared with Vast.ai
Pay as you go
Free trial
The closest matches to Vast.ai on App Advisor are Vespa (Free plan), Letta (Free plan), Union.ai (Paid plans). They are ranked by how closely their category, pricing model, platforms and target business size match Vast.ai, then by rating. The best choice depends on your team size and budget.
Yes. 3 of the 20 alternatives listed have a free plan or are free: Vespa (Free plan), Letta (Free plan), Inferless (Free plan). Free plans usually cap users, records or transactions, so check the limits against your monthly volume.
Yes. 3 alternatives are built in India, including Neysa (Paid plans), Macgence (Paid plans), Inferless (Free plan). Indian products usually handle GST, TDS and UPI natively and bill in rupees.
Vespa is the closest match to Vast.ai in our catalogue. Key differences: Has a free plan — Vast.ai does not. Compare them side by side before you book a demo.
Every product listed sits in cloud platforms & infrastructure or a category Vast.ai also covers, and Vast.ai's own products are excluded. Prices, free plans and platforms come from each vendor's official website. App Advisor does not sell any of this software.
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