Amazon Web Services vs Baseten
- GPUs
- 14 6
- Cheapest GPU
- $0.53/hr $0.63/hr
- Price wins
- 4/6 2/6
Amazon Web Services is cheaper on 4 of the 6 GPUs both rent, Baseten on 2. Amazon Web Services carries 8 more GPUs.
Hyperscaler that rents GPU and custom accelerator instances on demand, reserved or spot, alongside a full catalogue of managed cloud services.
Best for: Teams already building on AWS services
Runs dedicated model inference billed per minute of GPU time, plus pre-optimised model APIs billed per token.
Best for: Production inference for custom models
Price by GPU
The 6 GPUs both rent. Cheapest live rate per GPU-hour, most powerful first. The cheaper side is in purple.
| GPU | Amazon Web Services | Baseten | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB | $14.24/hr | $9.98/hr | 43% |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $6.88/hr | $6.50/hr | 6% |
| NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB | $3.43/hr | $4.00/hr | 17% |
| NVIDIA L4 24GB | $0.80/hr | $0.85/hr | 5% |
| NVIDIA A10G 24GB | $1.01/hr | $1.21/hr | 20% |
| NVIDIA T4 16GB | $0.53/hr | $0.63/hr | 20% |
Prices last checked: Amazon Web Services 1 Oct 2026, Baseten 1 Oct 2026.
Only on one side
Only on Amazon Web Services 8
Only on Baseten 0
Every GPU Baseten rents is also on the other side.
Company facts
| Fact | Amazon Web Services | Baseten |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters |  Seattle, WA | San Francisco, CA |
| Type | Hyperscaler | GPU cloud |
| Founded | 2006 | n/a |
| GPUs priced | 14 | 6 |
| Fastest GPU | NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB | NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB |
| Services | n/a | Dedicated model inference, pre-optimised model APIs, training (Loops SDK), self-hosted deployment |
| Pricing models | n/a | Per-minute GPU compute, per-token for model APIs |
Compliance
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Questions
- What is the difference between Amazon Web Services and Baseten?
- Amazon Web Services: Hyperscaler that rents GPU and custom accelerator instances on demand, reserved or spot, alongside a full catalogue of managed cloud services. Baseten: Runs dedicated model inference billed per minute of GPU time, plus pre-optimised model APIs billed per token.
- Is Amazon Web Services cheaper than Baseten?
- Amazon Web Services is cheaper on 4 of the 6 GPUs both rent, Baseten on 2. Amazon Web Services carries 8 more GPUs.
- How much does a NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB cost on Amazon Web Services and Baseten?
- Amazon Web Services charges $14.24 per GPU-hour and Baseten charges $9.98 per GPU-hour, the cheapest live rate on each.
- Which GPUs can I rent on both Amazon Web Services and Baseten?
- 6 GPUs, including NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB, NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB, NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB, NVIDIA L4 24GB, NVIDIA A10G 24GB, NVIDIA T4 16GB.
- How are these prices compared?
- Each figure is the cheapest live rate per GPU-hour for that GPU. We use on-demand pricing where a provider sells it and fall back to community or reserved terms, labelled, where that is all they sell. Spot capacity is left out because it can be reclaimed. Rates are refreshed by our daily ingest.
How we define a live price: methodology.
