OVHcloud alternative: VRAMfarm compared
OVHcloud: French cloud and hosting company; Public Cloud GPU instances plus AI Notebooks, AI Deploy and AI Endpoints. VRAMfarm is per-minute GPU rental from a prepaid euro balance, with 20 NVIDIA models and ready-made AI apps. Below is a side-by-side view, including where OVHcloud is the better choice.
Facts about OVHcloud from its public pages, checked 11 November 2026. Prices and terms change: check at the source.
| OVHcloud | VRAMfarm | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | French cloud and hosting company; Public Cloud GPU instances plus AI Notebooks, AI Deploy and AI Endpoints | GPU rental with ready-made AI apps |
| Billing | Pay as you go, billed per second with a 1-minute minimum (most Public Cloud services), or monthly; monthly cannot switch back | Per minute, minimum 15 minutes per launch |
| Currency | EUR in EU (USD on other country sites) | EUR |
| Payment | Postpaid monthly invoice; card, PayPal or SEPA direct debit; prepaid account credit used first | Prepaid balance from €10: card (incl. Apple Pay, Google Pay) or SEPA |
| GPUs in Europe | Yes, France: Gravelines has the widest GPU choice; other regions have fewer models | Some machines; the country of each one is shown before launch |
| GPU range | Quadro RTX 5000 16 GB, V100/V100S, A10, L4, L40S 48 GB, A100 80 GB, H100 80 GB, H200 141 GB (8x only) | 20 models, RTX 3060 12 GB to B200 192 GB |
| Ready-made apps | Bare VMs with NGC integration; separate AI Notebooks (Jupyter/VS Code), AI Training, AI Deploy and AI Endpoints | ComfyUI with Flux and Wan video, private chat, text to speech; Jupyter, SSH, vLLM, Ollama, own Docker image |
| Data after stop | Stopped instance is billed at full price; shelving keeps a snapshot (hourly only). Block storage from ~€0.043/GB-month | Disk wiped on stop; saved folder €0.03 per GB a month |
| 24 GB card, per hour | about €0.75/h (L4 24 GB); A10 24 GB about €0.76/h | from €0.30 (RTX 3090) |
| 80 GB card, per hour | about €2.75/h (A100 80 GB); H100 80 GB about €2.80/h | from €1.46 (A100), €3.90 (H100) |
When OVHcloud is the better choice
- EUR prices and EU data centres, EU-headquartered provider
- Per-second billing for most Public Cloud services
- Managed AI notebooks and inference as separate products
Worth knowing about OVHcloud
- A stopped GPU instance keeps billing; you must shelve or delete it
- Most GPU models in one French region (Gravelines)
- H200 only as an 8-GPU instance
What VRAMfarm does differently
- Billing per minute from a balance in euros, no subscription
- Ready-made apps that open in the browser with the models already downloaded
- Consumer and data-centre cards in one list, from 12 to 192 GB
- The country, driver and CUDA version of each machine shown before launch
What VRAMfarm does not have yet
- VAT invoices and a downloadable DPA (the company registration is in progress)
- Not every machine is in the EU
- No dedicated public IP: SSH and apps go through our address
Frequently asked questions
What is the main difference between OVHcloud and VRAMfarm?
OVHcloud: Pay as you go, billed per second with a 1-minute minimum (most Public Cloud services), or monthly; monthly cannot switch back, EUR in EU (USD on other country sites). VRAMfarm bills per minute from a prepaid euro balance and adds ready-made apps for images, video, chat and speech.
Is VRAMfarm cheaper than OVHcloud?
It depends on the card and how long you run it. Compare the hourly price for the card you need, then your typical session length: with per-minute billing short sessions cost less than with hourly rounding.
How do I move from OVHcloud to VRAMfarm?
Upload your models and data to /workspace on a new server over SSH, or start from your own Docker image. Save the folder on stop and it is there for the next session.
Try it on your own task
Top up from €10 and run the same job you run on OVHcloud; compare time and cost.