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gpu.nz vs Neon

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gpu.nz

🔴Developer

AI Infrastructure

gpu.nz is a Russian-language marketplace for renting NVIDIA GPU servers billed by the minute, with templates for ComfyUI, Ollama and vLLM plus an API, CLI and…

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Starting Price

7 ₽/hour

Neon

🔴Developer

AI Infrastructure

Serverless Postgres with branching, autoscaling, and a native pgvector layer used as a default RAG database for AI apps.

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Starting Price

Free

Feature Comparison

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Featuregpu.nzNeon
CategoryAI InfrastructureAI Infrastructure
Pricing Plans2 listed plans4 listed plans
Starting Price7 ₽/hourFree
Key Features
  • • Per-minute NVIDIA GPU rental
  • • Catalog of 102 GPU models across 67 countries
  • • Standard and interruptible servers
  • • Serverless Postgres with autoscaling compute
  • • Database branching for development and agents
  • • Usage-based compute and storage pricing

gpu.nz - Pros & Cons

Pros

  • ✓Per-minute billing with prices locked at launch
  • ✓Wide choice from consumer RTX cards to A100 and H100
  • ✓Ready-made templates for popular image and LLM stacks
  • ✓Well-documented MCP server with spending limited to account balance

Cons

  • ✗Site, pricing and support are in Russian and priced in rubles
  • ✗Payment limited to Russia's SBP bank transfers or cryptocurrency; company invoices listed as coming soon
  • ✗Servers and disks are deleted when the balance runs out, and refunds are given only where required by law

Neon - Pros & Cons

Pros

  • ✓Cheapest idle posture of any managed Postgres — pay only when queries run
  • ✓Branching genuinely changes how teams work with preview environments
  • ✓pgvector parity removes the need for a separate vector database in many RAG apps
  • ✓Backed by Databricks since 2025, easing long-term viability concerns

Cons

  • ✗Cold starts in the hundreds of milliseconds matter for latency-sensitive paths
  • ✗Free tier is small enough that most teams must upgrade before serious testing
  • ✗Roadmap uncertainty after the Databricks acquisition for top-tier plan pricing

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🔒 Security & Compliance Comparison

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Security Featuregpu.nzNeon
SOC2—✅ Yes
GDPR—✅ Yes
HIPAA—✅ Yes
SSO—✅ Yes
Self-Hosted—❌ No
On-Prem—❌ No
RBAC—✅ Yes
Audit Log—✅ Yes
Open Source—✅ Yes
API Key Auth—✅ Yes
Encryption at Rest—✅ Yes
Encryption in Transit—✅ Yes
Data Residency—US, EU, ASIA
Data Retention—configurable
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