A100s may be $3.20/HR on AWS, vs. $2.40/HR on Vast.ai

Name: A100s may be $3.20/HR on AWS, vs. $2.40/HR on Vast.ai
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Author: Facingsouth

by Facingsouth·Feb 17, 2026·1 point·0 comments

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●●SolidSolve My ProblemNiche Gem

The Take

Wraps a lot of nasty multi-cloud choreography into a single CLI: parallel provisioning across providers, staging/compressing datasets, and plumbing nodes from different clouds into one Kubernetes cluster with generated Helm templates and Karpenter hooks. The Hugging Face Spaces one-command deploy and built-in telemetry/ML integrations are smart touches, but the page leans heavy on integration laundry-listing — I want concrete guarantees around networking/egress, cost arbitration logic, and auth/billing boundaries before trusting it for production budgets.

Post Description

Terradev is a BYOAPI Terraform “wrapper” for cross-cloud GPU provisioning and node pooling

pip install terradev-cli

terradev k8s create demo --gpu A100 --count 8 --multi-cloud

A100s may be $3.20/hr on AWS, vs $2.40/hr on Vast.ai, but getting quotes across providers takes hours, there’s heavy tooling required between providers, and the nodes can’t be actively managed as pricing and demand changes day-to-day…

Terradev is a cross-cloud compute-provisioning CLI that works in parallel to quickly spin up optimal instances and pool them in Kubernetes clusters 3-5x faster than sequential workflows.

Nodes from different providers can pool in the same cluster, optimizing for latency, with workloads scheduling across all of them…

Built-in hooks: HF Spaces, Karpenter, vLLM, Ollama, Ray, MLFlow, W&B