Northflank vs SwissGPU: Pricing, Specs, Strengths & Weaknesses
Side-by-side comparison of GPU compute pricing, regions, billing models, and strengths for Northflank and SwissGPU. Rates sourced from public APIs — verify current availability and billing terms before purchasing.
Overview
Strengths & Best For
Northflank is a developer-focused PaaS platform offering GPU compute (L4, A100 40GB, A100 80GB, H100 80GB, RTX PRO 6000) alongside managed containers, CI/CD pipelines, databases, and cron jobs — all in one platform. GPU instances are available on-demand in US and EU regions. The platform is designed for teams that want to run GPU workloads as part of a broader application stack without managing raw cloud infrastructure. A strong choice for ML engineers who want GPU compute tightly integrated with deployment, scheduling, and application services.
- GPU compute integrated with PaaS — containers, CI/CD, databases in one platform
- H100 80GB and RTX PRO 6000 availability
- US and EU regions
- Developer-friendly platform with managed services
- On-demand billing with no minimum commitment
- PaaS model — less control than raw GPU clouds
- Higher per-GPU cost than bare infrastructure
- Smaller GPU catalog than specialist GPU clouds
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SwissGPU rents full dedicated physical machines (bare metal) in Switzerland, giving customers exclusive access to the hardware over SSH with no hypervisor overhead. Billing is per minute and stops the moment the server is powered off, with electricity metered separately at CHF 0.30/kWh. The catalog covers consumer and prosumer NVIDIA RTX cards — from the RTX 3090 and RTX 4080 through the RTX 5090 and up to the RTX PRO 6000 (96GB VRAM) — making it a practical choice for teams that want dedicated Swiss hardware for AI training, rendering, or compute workloads without sharing resources with other tenants. All machines include NVMe SSD storage and network at no extra charge. Prices are published in CHF; USD equivalents on this page are approximate conversions at ~1.13.
- Bare-metal dedicated hardware
- Per-minute billing
- Swiss data sovereignty
- No hypervisor overhead
- NVMe SSD & network included
- RTX PRO 6000 with 96GB VRAM
- Electricity billed separately
- Consumer/prosumer GPU tier only
- Small provider — limited scale
- No managed platform or containers
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Northflank
PaaS GPU compute — L4, A100, H100, RTX PRO 6000 with managed containers and CI/CD
SwissGPU
Swiss bare-metal GPU rental