Choose your compute. Know what changes.
Compare the offer, the machine and the work it needs to do. Every guide names its sources and its limits.
01 / Providers
Where should you run?
B3IQ vs Hydra Host
Compare owned B3IQ machines with Hydra Host bare metal and AI Factory offers: procurement, control, costs and operating responsibilities.
B3IQ vs Vast.ai
Decide between buying a B3IQ GPU machine and renting Vast.ai marketplace capacity, with configuration, persistence and cost assumptions made explicit.
Vast.ai vs Runpod
Compare Vast.ai host offers with Runpod Pods: cloud tiers, storage persistence, transfer charges and repeatable workload costs.
Runpod vs Lambda
Compare Runpod Pods and Lambda GPU instances for development and continuous workloads, including exact GPU edition, disk, billing and capacity.
02 / Hardware
Which GPU fits?
H200 NVL vs RTX PRO 6000 Server Edition
Compare H200 NVL and RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition memory, bandwidth, topology and B3IQ machine configurations.
RTX 5090 vs RTX PRO 6000 Server Edition
Compare GeForce RTX 5090 and RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition for model memory, inference and the B3IQ machine you would buy.
How we compare
Evidence before a winner.
These are B3IQ-authored guides, including the comparisons between other providers. Recommendations reflect the stated use case. We do not claim a universal cheapest provider or a speed advantage without a matched measurement.
Provider facts are dated observations of primary sources. B3IQ machine facts come from the same store records used by the product pages. Unknown terms stay unknown; a blank quote is never counted as free.
Price observations are flagged after 14 days, capabilities after 30 days and hardware specifications after 90 days. An expired observation remains dated evidence; its price is not prefilled as current. A new publication needs source review and the same checks as the original guide.
Model fit and benchmark methodology ↗
