Daytona vs Oracle Cloud (OCI)
- GPUs
- 8 7
- Cheapest GPU
- $0.99/hr $4.50/hr
- Price wins
- 4/4 0/4
Daytona is cheaper on all 4 GPUs both rent. Daytona carries 1 more GPU.
Sells GPU sandboxes for inference, fine-tuning and agent code, billed per second on demand or preemptible with no minimum.
Best for: Agent sandboxes and short GPU jobs
Hyperscaler that rents bare metal and virtual GPU instances on demand or reserved, with RDMA cluster networking.
Best for: Bare metal GPU clusters at scale
Price by GPU
The 4 GPUs both rent. Cheapest live rate per GPU-hour, most powerful first. The cheaper side is in purple.
| GPU | Daytona | Oracle Cloud (OCI) | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB | $6.25/hr | $14.00/hr | 124% |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $3.95/hr | $10.75/hr | 172% |
| NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB | $4.54/hr | $10.00/hr | 120% |
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition | $3.03/hr | $4.50/hr | 49% |
Prices last checked: Daytona 4 Oct 2026, Oracle Cloud (OCI) 4 Oct 2026.
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Company facts
| Fact | Daytona | Oracle Cloud (OCI) |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters |  New York, United States | Austin, TX |
| Type | GPU cloud | Hyperscaler |
| Founded | 2023 | n/a |
| Regions | 5 | n/a |
| GPUs priced | 8 | 7 |
| Fastest GPU | AMD Instinct MI355X OAM | NVIDIA GB200 NVL72 GPU 186GB |
| Services | GPU sandboxes, LLM inference and serving, fine-tuning and training, model evaluations, AI agent code execution, snapshots, persistent volumes, REST API, CLI, SDKs for Python, TypeScript, Ruby, Go and Java | n/a |
| Pricing models | On-demand, Spot (preemptible), Reserved (enterprise, on request), per-second billing, no minimum commitment | n/a |
Compliance
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Questions
- What is the difference between Daytona and Oracle Cloud (OCI)?
- Daytona: Sells GPU sandboxes for inference, fine-tuning and agent code, billed per second on demand or preemptible with no minimum. Oracle Cloud (OCI): Hyperscaler that rents bare metal and virtual GPU instances on demand or reserved, with RDMA cluster networking.
- Is Daytona cheaper than Oracle Cloud (OCI)?
- Daytona is cheaper on all 4 GPUs both rent. Daytona carries 1 more GPU.
- How much does a NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB cost on Daytona and Oracle Cloud (OCI)?
- Daytona charges $6.25 per GPU-hour and Oracle Cloud (OCI) charges $14.00 per GPU-hour, the cheapest live rate on each.
- Which GPUs can I rent on both Daytona and Oracle Cloud (OCI)?
- 4 GPUs, including NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB, NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB, NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB, NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition.
- 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.
