The Paperspace alternative for developers.
This compares Podstack Cloud’s QuickPods with Paperspace’s Gradient and Core instances: a share of a GPU billed per minute instead of a whole card billed by the hour, with no fee to move your data out.
Why teams move from Paperspace
Whole-GPU pricing
Paperspace sells full GPUs only. QuickPods start at 12.5% of a GPU and bill per minute.
Hourly billing
Per-hour billing rounds a short job up to the full hour. QuickPods meter by the GPU-minute, so an afternoon of experiments costs an afternoon.
Egress fees
Pulling weights, datasets and results back out is charged. Podstack object storage has no ingress, egress or request fees.
General-purpose templates
Gradient templates cover general notebooks. QuickPods add one-click stacks for fine-tuning, vLLM serving and ComfyUI.
Podstack vs Paperspace, feature by feature
| Feature | Podstack | Paperspace |
|---|---|---|
| Fractional GPU | 12.5% to 100% via PodVirt | Whole GPU only |
| Billing granularity | Per GPU-minute | Per hour |
| Egress fees | None | Charged per GB |
| ML templates | One-click for fine-tuning, vLLM, ComfyUI and Jupyter | Gradient notebook templates |
| Developer tooling | CLI, Python SDK, REST API | CLI and API |
| Reserved capacity | TrainPods reserved clusters where partner capacity exists | On-demand and reserved machine types |
| Reliability terms | Flow into the operator agreement; more than one operator per region | Managed-platform terms |
| Pricing | Quoted per team; billed per GPU-minute | Public on-demand rates |
Moving from Paperspace
The same three steps work for every Podstack Cloud product.
Bring your image or template
Use Podstack templates for vLLM, Unsloth, ComfyUI and PyTorch, or point a pod at your own container image.
Move data into object storage
Sync weights and datasets into an S3-compatible bucket in the same region as your GPUs. There is no egress fee when a pod or endpoint reads them.
podstack files upload data.jsonlLaunch and pick a share
Choose the GPU family and how much of it you need, from 12.5% to the whole card, and you are billed per minute from there.
podstack gpu launchQuestions, answered.
Why look for a Paperspace alternative?
Paperspace bills per hour and sells full GPUs only, so a small inference or fine-tuning job pays for capacity and rounded-up time it never uses. QuickPods bill per GPU-minute on a share of a GPU from 12.5%.
Is Podstack cheaper than Paperspace?
Podstack pricing is quoted per team, billed per GPU-minute, with no egress fees, rather than compared against a per-hour rate.
Can I run vLLM, ComfyUI and fine-tuning jobs on Podstack?
Yes. QuickPods ship one-click templates for fine-tuning, vLLM serving, ComfyUI and Jupyter, and you can bring your own container image instead.
How do I migrate from Paperspace to Podstack?
Bring your image or template, move your data into object storage, then launch and pick a share. The same three steps apply across every Podstack Cloud product.
Does Podstack have an SLA?
Uptime and response terms flow into the operator agreement behind them, and every region has more than one operator.
What security certifications does Podstack have?
Podstack is an ISO 27001 certified platform and operations, with per-tenant isolation via PodVirt and region pinning including India.
Fractional. Per minute. No egress.
QuickPods launch on a share of a GPU in seconds and bill by the minute from there.