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Nexpod vs AWS for GPU work.

AWS runs a huge catalogue of services. Nexpod does one thing: dedicated 8-GPU servers, billed per second and invoiced in euros. Here is how the two line up for training and inference.

8× B300 · €48.00 /hrone line per serverinvoiced in EUR

Exploded view of a Nexpod node: an 8U server with eight NVIDIA B300 GPUs on an HGX baseboard, an NVLink switch tray above it, and data paths to the EU-AMS-1, EU-FRA-1 and US-NYC-1 regions.
billing / invoice NX-2026-1042
Sample
Cloud Server · 8× B300
41h 12m 08s × €48.00/hr
€1,977.71
Egress from network storage
2.4 TB out
€0.00
Server stopped
no charge while off
€0.00
Total · EUR€1,977.71

Teams running GPU work on Nexpod

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Before you choose

Plan for more than the GPU.

On a broad cloud, the GPU is one line inside a larger setup. Before you move a training run or an endpoint, fill in this worksheet for your own account and region.

Evaluation worksheet0 / 6
  • 01GPU family offered in your region
  • 02Quota approved for 8 GPUs or more
  • 03Storage and data transfer estimated
  • 04Networking, images and roles scoped
  • 05Invoice currency agreed with finance
  • 06Reserved term and how to exit it
GPU quota request
family8× ____
region____
status awaiting review

Capacity and quotas

Confirm the GPU model, the region and the quota you need before you set a launch date.

Worksheet 01 · 02
Lines on one month's bill
GPUstoragetransfersupport

Every line on the bill

Add compute, storage, data transfer and support together. The GPU rate is only one part.

Worksheet 03
Before the first job2 / 5
  1. network
  2. image
  3. roles
  4. scripts
  5. first job

Setup before the first job

Count the networking, images, roles and scripts a job needs before it can start.

Worksheet 04
Invoice currency
EURUSDGBP
agreed with finance: ?

Procurement and currency

Check the contract path and the currency your finance team will be invoiced in.

Worksheet 05 · 06

Pricing

Rates you can read in one line.

One price per GPU-hour for each family, metered per second, in euros. A full server costs eight times the GPU rate. That is the whole formula.

GPU
Nexpod
AWS
B300
288 GB HBM3e
€6.00/GPU·hr
€48.00 /node
B200
180 GB HBM3e
€5.00/GPU·hr
€40.00 /node
H200
141 GB HBM3e
€4.00/GPU·hr
€32.00 /node
H100
80 GB HBM3
€3.00/GPU·hr
€24.00 /node

Rates differ by region, instance size and term, so there is no single number to put here.

→ check AWS's own price list for your region

Indicative. Nexpod on-demand rates, excl. VAT, metered per second.
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Placeholder quote. A customer who moved GPU work from AWS describes, in two plain sentences, what changed on the invoice and in the day-to-day.

Customer nameRole, Company
8GPUs
in every node
1s
billing granularity
€0
egress on network storage
Spend · last 60 min
€1.7317
H100 · €0.00083/GPU·s
billed per second
€0.1983 · 238 GPU-s
−60m€0.00idlenow

Comparison

Nexpod and AWS, side by side.

Our answer on the left. On the right, the question to put to your own AWS account, because the answer depends on region, instance type and agreement.

Nexpod
Check on AWS
What you rent
Whole 8-GPU server
?Which instance types carry eight GPUs?
GPU families
B300 · B200 · H200 · H100
?Which GPU families run in your region?
Billing granularity
Per second
?Per second or per hour, for your OS and service?
Invoice currency
EUR
?Which currency is your account billed in?
Egress from network storage
None
?What does data transfer out of storage cost you?
Serverless GPU endpoints
?Which service hosts autoscaling GPU endpoints?
Multi-node clusters
?Which networking joins GPU instances into one job?
Root over SSH on the node
?A full host, or a virtual machine on one?
Rate shown before you deploy
?Where is the full hourly rate shown before launch?
Qualitative. Cloud offerings change often; answer these with AWS's current documentation and pricing for your region.

Workload fit

Pick by workload, not by habit.

Most teams end up using more than one cloud. Use this to decide where each workload belongs.

Nexpod fits when

  • Your work is GPU-bound: training, fine-tuning, inference or rendering.
  • You want a whole 8-GPU server that nobody else shares.
  • You want per-second billing and invoices in euros.
  • Your data can live in EU-AMS-1, EU-FRA-1 or US-NYC-1.

AWS may fit better when

  • Most of your data, apps and permissions already live in one AWS account.
  • You need managed services right next to the GPU, not only the GPU.
  • Your procurement already runs through an existing AWS agreement.

Talk to an engineer

15 minutes with a GPU engineer.

Bring your current AWS setup and a rough monthly budget. We map it to Nexpod servers and a quote in euros, or tell you plainly to stay where you are.

nexpod.ai/contact · 15 min call
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GPU engineer
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Try it on one workload

Move one workload. Compare the invoice.

Start with a single training run or endpoint on Nexpod, keep everything else where it is, and judge on your own numbers.

On-demand ratesEUR · excl. VAT
  • B300€6.00/GPU·hr
  • B200€5.00/GPU·hr
  • H200€4.00/GPU·hr
  • H100€3.00/GPU·hr