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Vast.ai alternative in Canada: dedicated Blackwell GPUs in Toronto
Vast.ai is a marketplace: independent hosts list GPUs and you rent by the hour at the host's price. TorontoGPU is two rigs in Toronto, 12 GPUs, and each GPU is reserved to one customer at a time, by the month, in Canadian dollars. If you need a GPU for an afternoon at the lowest price you can find, Vast.ai is the right tool. If you need the same GPUs every day for months, want to know where they sit, and want Canadian data residency you can put in a contract, keep reading.
Side by side
| Vast.ai | TorontoGPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Prices | Vast.ai prices vary by host and by the hour and render in the browser, so we do not quote a number here. Check the live marketplace. | Dedicated RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition (96 GB), reserved by the month: a CAD quote by capacity and term |
| Where it runs | Independent hosts; each listing names its own location | One site in Toronto, Ontario. Canadian owned and operated |
| Billing | By the hour, USD | By the month, CAD |
| Access | Vast.ai's instances and tooling | Bare metal or containers, direct SSH, the GPUs are yours alone for the month |
| Support | Vast.ai's support channels | The owner-operator, by email, Toronto business hours |
| SLA | See Vast.ai's terms | No multi-region failover and no 99.99% SLA; we confirm the setup meets your requirement before you reserve |
| Availability today | On demand | Fully rented; the waitlist is open |
Vast.ai publishes no single list price: each host sets its own, and the live marketplace is the only source. TorontoGPU prices are a monthly CAD quote by capacity and term, never an hourly rate.
What Vast.ai does better
Often among the lowest hourly prices, because hosts compete, and almost every consumer and datacenter card listed by someone. Capacity you can start in minutes. We have one card type, one site, and both rigs are rented today.
What TorontoGPU does differently
The GPUs are dedicated: 96 GB of GDDR7 per card, yours alone for the month, bare metal or containers, direct SSH. The hardware sits at one site in Toronto, which makes a data residency clause a one-line fact rather than a region setting. You email the person who runs the rigs. And if you would rather own the node, we spec, source and install it at your site.
Switching from Vast.ai
Tell us what you run on Vast.ai: the GPU count, the container images, the storage you mount, and how many hours a month the GPUs are actually busy. We quote a reserved month in CAD; you multiply your hours by Vast.ai's hourly price and compare the two numbers yourself.
Questions
Is TorontoGPU cheaper than Vast.ai?
Not by the hour. Vast.ai's marketplace prices change by host and by the hour. We reserve one card type by the month in CAD and quote on request; a reserved month beats it once the hours you would pay Vast.ai for cost more than our month.
Is my data in Canada?
Rented GPU compute and workload storage are physically in Toronto, Ontario. Regulated, health, financial or personal data needs written approval and appropriate safeguards first. We put that in writing before you reserve.
Can I start today?
Not today. Both rigs are rented and the waitlist is open. Send the number of GPUs, the workload and your timing and we confirm when an opening fits.
What if it does not work out?
Month to month. Cancel any time; it takes effect at the end of the paid month, and prepaid future months are refunded. The current month is not prorated.
Write to the operator
Email support@torontogpu.com with your GPU count and timing, or hold your place on the waitlist.
Rival prices, where shown, are public list prices read on the date shown, in US dollars, and may have changed since.