# Akash Network (Underperforming) — ClusterMAX GPU Cloud Review

> Akash Network earns a ClusterMAX 2.0 Underperforming rating from SemiAnalysis. Akash is a decentralized marketplace with a supposed 64 active providers on “Mainnet”. When we logged it in it seemed like there were many different consumer-grade GPUs available. We decided to give it a go an request 1x…

- **Provider**: Akash Network
- **ClusterMAX Tier**: Underperforming
- **Tier definition**: Can rise to Bronze or Silver quickly if critical issues are fixed (security attestation, modern GPUs, etc.).
- **Authors**: Jordan Nanos, Daniel Nishball, Dylan Patel (SemiAnalysis)
- **Published**: 2025-11-06 (Nov 06, 2025)
- **Last updated**: 2025-11-06 (Nov 06, 2025)
- **Source**: ClusterMAX 2.0
- **Canonical URL**: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/akashnetwork
- **Source article**: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/clustermax-20-the-industry-standard
- **Topics**: Akash Network review, Akash Network GPU cloud, Akash Network ClusterMAX rating, Akash Network Underperforming, Underperforming tier GPU cloud, GPU cloud review, neocloud review, Akash Network H200, Akash Network H100, H200 cloud, H100 cloud, ClusterMAX 2.0, SemiAnalysis

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Akash is a decentralized marketplace with a supposed 64 active providers on “Mainnet”. When we logged it in it seemed like there were many different consumer-grade GPUs available. We decided to give it a go an request 1x H200.

[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!6yGR!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F3ff3a7ae-f4f5-472e-a6ea-f3030109a225_937x497.png)Requesting a 1x H200 deployment

Unfortunately, we weren’t able to access any H100 or H200 on the platform. Interestingly, there is an option to request AMD MI100 GPUs, but when we tried to request them or different NVIDIA consumer GPUs (3080, 4090) we couldn’t get anything more than an apologetic loading screen:

[](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!XHEv!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F0a504cd5-04d6-4f51-b58f-3dfc27eb350a_937x497.png)Waiting for bids… L

After a few hours waiting for a bid for a 4090, and none being found, we moved on. Overall our experience with Akash lends us to thinking that it is basically not ready for any workloads.

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Other Underperforming tier providers:
- IREN/Iris Energy: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/irenirisenergy
- Hydra Host: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/hydrahost
- FarmGPU: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/farmgpu
- Whitefiber: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/whitefiber
- DeepInfra: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/deepinfra
- Dstack Sky: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/dstacksky
- PaleBlueDot: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/palebluedot
- Hyperbolic: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/hyperbolic
- Aethir: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/aethir
- Salad Cloud: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/saladcloud
- Clore: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/clore
- Mithril/ML Foundry: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/mithrilmlfoundry
- GPU.net: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/gpunet
- Massed Compute: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/massedcompute
- Exabits: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/exabits
- Sesterce: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/sesterce
- E2E Networks: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/e2enetworks
- OVHcloud: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/ovhcloud
- Dihuni: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/dihuni
- Akamai/Linode: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/akamailinode
- HETZNER: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview/hetzner

Full ClusterMAX 2.0 + 2.1 index: https://www.clustermax.ai/cloudreview
Full LLM dump of all reviews: https://www.clustermax.ai/llms-full.txt