# GPU.net (Underperforming) — ClusterMAX GPU Cloud Review

> GPU.net earns a ClusterMAX 2.0 Underperforming rating from SemiAnalysis. GPU.net is yet another marketplace, and one of the biggest by the numbers. The homepage proudly displays access to 42 providers, with 121k total GPUs available.…

- **Provider**: GPU.net
- **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/gpunet
- **Source article**: https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/clustermax-20-the-industry-standard
- **Topics**: GPU.net review, GPU.net GPU cloud, GPU.net ClusterMAX rating, GPU.net Underperforming, Underperforming tier GPU cloud, GPU cloud review, neocloud review, GPU.net H200, GPU.net H100, GPU.net L40S, H200 cloud, H100 cloud, L40S cloud, ClusterMAX 2.0, SemiAnalysis

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GPU.net is yet another marketplace, and one of the biggest by the numbers. The homepage proudly displays access to 42 providers, with 121k total GPUs available.

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Pricing is reasonable for on-demand, at $2.15/hr per H100. Unfortunately, all H100 and H200 SXM appeared to be unavailable, showing a “Booking Error” when we tried to purchase them. Eventually, we got a 1x H100 80GB PCIe, and a 2x L40S machine to spin up in about 2 minutes each.

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Logging into our H100 machine in North America, and our 2x L40S machine in Australia. One has GPU drivers, and one doesn’t. Interestingly, the machine without drivers had docker installed, and the machine with drivers did not.

We saw that the H100 PCIe machine (dubbed “North America” on the console) was created in Hypertsack/NexGen Cloud’s Montreal datacenter, and the 2x L40S machine (dubbed “Australia” on the console) was created in Sharon AI’s Melbourne, Australia datacenter.

Overall, GPU.net is another crypto-focused decentralized marketplace that may provide users the optionality to access to multiple cloud providers. However, they struggle with reliability, a consistent user experience, and many of the basic expectations that we have for a neocloud such as security compliance and attestation.

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- 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

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