Qubrid enters our ratings in the Bronze tier. The provider offers individual GPU instances (VMs) and bare-metal server rentals through a clean web console, with hardware ranging from H100s to the latest B200s.
Our hands-on testing of their individual VM offering was a mixed bag. On the positive side, the user experience for provisioning a single machine is straightforward. SSH and Jupyter access are easy to configure, and our B200 instance was provisioned and accessible in around 8 minutes.
However, this basic usability is undermined by the fact that Qubrid charges users while the machine is stuck spinning up. We can only speculate that the reason for this is that Qubrid is running on AWS hardware in Ashburn, VA (us-east) as confirmed by a basic IP test when we logged in, though they do not make this clear to their customers. Readers can see in the screenshot above that our B200 instance was provisioned with the CUDA 12.4 toolkit by default. While the driver was newer (12.6), this older toolkit just obviously doesn’t work with Blackwell hardware (i.e. SM100) which requires CUDA 12.8 or above.
Finally, Qubrid’s business model feels more like a traditional server host than a flexible neocloud. Their pricing requires strict minimum commitments (e.g., 1-week for H100, 1-month for H200, and 3-months for B200) and they openly advertise yearly server rentals, despite not owning the hardware. We encourage Qubrid to fix its billing practices, address usability issues, and be more upfront about who’s hardware they’re selling to customers.