SwissGPU

SwissGPU GPU pricing overview

SwissGPU is a specialist GPU cloud provider headquartered in Switzerland. 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. Billing is Per-minute (bare metal) with a minimum commitment of None. Available regions include CH. GPU instances can be provisioned on-demand, making SwissGPU suitable for both short-duration experiments and sustained production workloads.

SwissGPU vs other GPU providers

SwissGPU competes with providers including Lambda Labs, CoreWeave, RunPod, Paperspace, Vast.ai, and the major hyperscalers (AWS, Google Cloud, Azure) for GPU compute workloads spanning LLM training, fine-tuning, and inference serving. Key differentiators include: Bare-metal dedicated hardware; Per-minute billing; Swiss data sovereignty. Use the side-by-side comparison tool above to see SwissGPU pricing against any other provider across shared GPU models. For a broader market view, the live GPU prices table shows all 7 SwissGPU listings alongside 91+ providers in a single sortable view.

Best use cases for SwissGPU

SwissGPU is best suited for: Dedicated GPU workloads, Swiss/EU data residency, Teams needing full machine access, High-VRAM inference (RTX PRO 6000). Support tiers range from Standard, making it viable for both individual researchers and enterprise teams with SLA requirements. There are currently 7 active GPU listings on SwissGPU, covering RTX 4080, RTX 5080, RTX 3090, RTX 4090 and more. H100 SXM5 instances with NVLink interconnect are commonly used for large-scale training workloads. A100 40GB and RTX 4090 instances are frequently used for fine-tuning and inference of smaller models.

SwissGPU billing model and cost structure

SwissGPU uses Per-minute (bare metal) pricing. Spot pricing is not currently available on this provider — all instances are on-demand. Reserved instance pricing may be available for predictable long-running workloads — check the provider's pricing page for current committed-use rates. Always compare the effective hourly rate including egress, storage, and networking costs when evaluating total cost of ownership across providers.

Choosing the right GPU on SwissGPU

GPU selection depends on model size, precision, and whether your workload is compute-bound or memory-bandwidth-bound. For LLM training above 30B parameters, H100 80GB SXM5 instances with NVLink are the standard choice — high HBM3 bandwidth and FP16 throughput make them well-suited for large transformer workloads. For inference of 7B–13B models in FP16 or BF16, A100 40GB is a common choice on many providers. RTX 4090 instances are widely used for fine-tuning, prototyping, and quantized inference (INT4/INT8) of models up to 70B. Read the H100 vs A100 guide or the GPU benchmarks for ML guide for a full breakdown.

How SwissGPU pricing data is collected

Prices shown are sourced from SwissGPU's public pricing API or pricing page and refreshed every 15 minutes. On-demand rates reflect the current list price for a single GPU instance in the cheapest available region. Spot prices, where available, reflect interruptible instance rates at the time of the last snapshot. All prices are in USD per hour. Daily snapshots are kept in our history archive and visualised in the GPU price history charts — useful for identifying seasonal pricing patterns and evaluating whether current rates are above or below the 30-day average.

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