Operator · United States · founded 2023

Hot Aisle

US AMD-only GPU cloud renting MI300X as KVM virtual machines (1, 2, 4 GPUs) and 8-GPU bare-metal servers from a single Michigan data center, self-serve through a terminal UI, API and CLI.

GPU types1with a current offer

Current offers1111 readings on file · last 45 days

H100 from—per GPU-hour, on-demand

Entry price$2.99cheapest GPU-hour listed

Countries11 named regions

Trust Score v0.1

73/100

Company & track record100
Infrastructure control100
Pricing & billing transparency60
Reliability signals45
Security & compliance73
Customer signal—

Scored Sep 29, 2026 from the provider's own pages. Dimensions not yet measured are excluded from the denominator. Criteria ↓

11 current offers →hotaisle.xyz ↗

Trust Score · 5 of 6 dimensions measured

The score, criterion by criterion

Each point comes from something the provider publishes, with the page it was read on and the date. Anything not disclosed earns zero.

Company & track record

weight 15%

100 / 100

Founding year published	2023hotaisle.xyz · Sep 29, 2026	4 / 4
Headquarters published	Hot Aisle, Inc.hotaisle.xyz · Sep 29, 2026	3 / 3
Legal entity named	Hot Aisle, Inc.hotaisle.xyz · Sep 29, 2026	4 / 4
Funding or ownership disclosed	Private. Backers named on the About page: Joseph Lubin and Mesh. Investors page states a raise of 50 to 100 million USD is in progress to fund MI355X capacity.hotaisle.xyz · Sep 29, 2026	4 / 4

Infrastructure control

weight 15%

100 / 100

Capacity model published	operates or rents dedicated capacityhotaisle.xyz · Sep 29, 2026	10 / 10
Regions published	1 regions or countrieshotaisle.xyz · Sep 29, 2026	5 / 5

Pricing & billing transparency

weight 20%

60 / 100

Public prices without an account	yes (read on the pricing page)hotaisle.xyz · Sep 29, 2026	5 / 5
Billing granularity published	per minutehotaisle.xyz · Sep 29, 2026	4 / 4
Egress policy published	not disclosedhotaisle.xyz · Sep 29, 2026	0 / 4
Stopped-instance billing published	not disclosedhotaisle.xyz · Sep 29, 2026	0 / 4
Public IPv4 policy published	includedhotaisle.xyz · Sep 29, 2026	3 / 3

Reliability signals

weight 20%

45 / 100

Status page	not disclosedhotaisle.xyz · Sep 29, 2026	0 / 6
SLA published	Service Level Objective in the Terms of Service with service credits: 5% for 95-99% monthly uptime, 10% for 90-94.999%, 15% below 89.999%, capped at 50% of the monthly amount; no uptime target above 99% is statedhotaisle.xyz · Sep 29, 2026	6 / 6
SLA with a numeric uptime commitment	Service Level Objective in the Terms of Service with service credits: 5% for 95-99% monthly uptime, 10% for 90-94.999%, 15% below 89.999%, capped at 50% of the monthly amount; no uptime target above 99% is statedhotaisle.xyz · Sep 29, 2026	3 / 3
Uptime history published	not disclosedhotaisle.xyz · Sep 29, 2026	0 / 5
Observed availability (30 days)	not measured yet	—

Security & compliance

weight 15%

73 / 100

SOC 2	Type IIhotaisle.xyz · Sep 29, 2026	8 / 8
ISO 27001	not disclosedhotaisle.xyz · Sep 29, 2026	0 / 4
HIPAA or GDPR DPA	Stated as completed on the Security and Compliance page (last modified 25 May 2024)hotaisle.xyz · Sep 29, 2026	3 / 3

Customer signal

weight 15%

not measured

Aggregated public reviews

not collected yet

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provisional v0.1: evidence from the provider's own pages; dimensions not yet measured are excluded from the denominatorFull method →

Prices by GPU · 1 GPU types with a current offer

What Hot Aisle charges, against the market

Cheapest current on-demand true cost here, next to the market median for the same GPU. Negative means cheaper than the market.

GPU	Cheapest here	Market median	vs market	Current offers	Modes
MI300X	$2.99	$2.71	+10%	4	on-demand	MI300X prices

All offers · 11 readings on file

Every Hot Aisle offer, with its receipt

Current offers (last 45 days) ranked by true cost, all rental modes, each with its read date. Older readings stay listed below, in grey.

GPU	Configuration	Mode	Region	Stock	List	True cost	Read
MI300X	1× MI300X224 GB RAM · 12,000 GB disk	On-demand	US	Stock unknown	$2.99	$2.99	00:19 UTCfresh	Receipt
MI300X	2× MI300X26 vCPU · 448 GB RAM · 12,000 GB disk	On-demand	US	Stock unknown	$2.99	$2.99	00:19 UTCfresh	Receipt
MI300X	4× MI300X52 vCPU · 896 GB RAM · 12,000 GB disk	On-demand	US	Stock unknown	$2.99	$2.99	00:19 UTCfresh	Receipt
MI300X	8× MI300X2,048 GB RAM · 122,000 GB disk	On-demand	US	Stock unknown	$3.39	$3.39	00:19 UTCfresh	Receipt

4 fresh offers · prices per GPU-hour · true cost includes the add-ons the provider publishesOpen in the comparison tool →

True cost & billing · read Sep 29, 2026

What the hourly price does not say

Billing granularity, minimums, what a stopped machine costs, traffic, addresses, deposits and identity checks, as published by the provider.

Billing

Billing granularity: per minute
Minimum charge: not published
Stopped instance: not published
Egress: not published
Public IPv4: included
Billing model: both
Minimum deposit: not published
Free credits: not published

Account

Payment: card · invoice · crypto (yes: USDT and USDC stablecoins for adding credits (quick-start page))
Sign-up: email, card
Identity check: not published
Support: email, slack
Enterprise support: not published
SLA: Service Level Objective in the Terms of Service with service credits: 5% for 95-99% monthly uptime, 10% for 90-94.999%, 15% below 89.999%, capped at 50% of the monthly amount; no uptime target above 99% is stated
Status page: not published
Published uptime: not published

Infrastructure

Regions: 1 named regions in 1 countries
Switch Pyramid (United States)
Countries: United States
Platform: API, CLI, SSH, custom Docker images, bare metalKubernetes: noInterconnect: 8x400G (3.2 Tbps) RoCEv2 Ethernet per 8-GPU server, Broadcom 57608 adaptersClusters: Multi-node bare-metal clusters and cluster design services on request; no published cluster price
Storage: ephemeral · included · 12 TB NVMe per VM, 122 TB NVMe per 8x bare-metal server, included in the GPU price. No separate persistent or network volume product with a price is published.
Migration out: Customers control full VMs or bare metal with root access and are responsible for their own backups (Shared Responsibility Model). Data leaves through standard SSH/rsync or object storage uploads; the Terms state customers must export data before term end, after which deletion happens after up to 30 days of recovery period. Workloads are ROCm containers, which move to any AMD provider; moving to NVIDIA requires CUDA builds.

Security & compliance

SOC 2: Type II
ISO 27001: not published
HIPAA: Stated as completed on the Security and Compliance page (last modified 25 May 2024)
GDPR / DPA: not published
Other: Tier 5 Platinum facility (Switch Pyramid); OFAC sanctions clause in the Terms of Service
Legal entity: Hot Aisle, Inc.
Funding: Private. Backers named on the About page: Joseph Lubin and Mesh. Investors page states a raise of 50 to 100 million USD is in progress to fund MI355X capacity.

Read on the provider's own pages · 17 pages read · facts marked "not published" were looked for and not foundPages read ↓

Assessment · documents read Sep 29, 2026

Hot Aisle, in short

What stood out when we read the documents: strengths, weaknesses, who it suits, and what we could not find.

Strengths

AMD MI300X (192 GB HBM3) available as a single-GPU VM, so large-memory inference fits on one GPU
Per-minute billing for VMs through Stripe, no reservation or minimum stated
Credits can be added with USDT or USDC stablecoins as well as Stripe
12 TB local NVMe included with every VM and 122 TB with the 8x bare-metal server
Public IPv4 and IPv6 included with every VM and bare-metal server
Full-node bare metal with BMC/iDRAC access and 8x400G RoCEv2 at 3.39 USD per GPU-hour
SOC 2 Type 2 and HIPAA stated on the Security and Compliance page
Documented REST API (Swagger), open-source Go CLI, cloud-init templates, dstack integration

Weaknesses

Single GPU model in service (MI300X); MI355X is a funding-stage plan, not a product
One data center (Grand Rapids, Michigan); no region choice
Investors page states existing MI300X capacity is 100% utilized, so availability is not assured
No NVIDIA GPUs, so CUDA-only software does not run
No spot/interruptible tier, no serverless, no managed Kubernetes
Service credits start only below 99% monthly uptime; no status page yet (maintenance policy says 'to be setup')
Egress policy and stopped-VM billing not published

Ideal for

Teams running ROCm-ready inference that needs 192 GB on one GPU
Buyers who want AMD bare metal with full BMC control billed by the hour
Users who prefer to pay with USDT or USDC

Not published

Whether stopped VMs are billed (not stated on pricing, quick start or API docs)
Egress/bandwidth pricing or caps (not published)
Reserved Compute Instance and Bulk Credit prices (Terms reference Order Forms
no public price)
Minimum credit purchase amount (not published)
Whether identity verification is required at sign-up (not published)
Billing granularity for bare-metal servers (per-minute stated for VMs only)
Headquarters city (not published on pages read)
Exact 2x vs 4x VM CPU/RAM split (page lists values joined by 'or')

Observations

Pricing page shows per-GPU-hour prices for VMs and bare metal without an account

Sign-up is done in a terminal UI over SSH (ssh admin.hotaisle.app) that asks for an email address

Header promotes 'Reserve your ID' (hotaisle.cloud handle reservation) and an Investors page for a 50-100M USD raise

Home page claims 700+ customers served and 3 years operating in production

Pages read

hotaisle.xyz/pricing/ — GPU prices, VM and bare-metal specs, per-minute billing, support channel
hotaisle.xyz/ — Positioning, Stripe per-minute billing, customer count
hotaisle.xyz/quick-start — Sign-up flow, Stripe and USDT/USDC credits, API/CLI/cloud-init, dstack
hotaisle.xyz/policies/terms-of-service — SLO credits, prepaid and invoiced billing, ACH/wire, reserved order forms, OFAC, governing law
hotaisle.xyz/policies/security-and-compliance — SOC 2 Type 2, HIPAA
hotaisle.xyz/datacenter — Location Switch Pyramid, Grand Rapids, Michigan
hotaisle.xyz/compute — XE9680 server specs
hotaisle.xyz/networking — RoCEv2 fabric, IPv4/IPv6 included
hotaisle.xyz/mi300x — GPU specs
hotaisle.xyz/mi355x — MI355X is planned, capital still being raised
hotaisle.xyz/about — Founding date, founders, backers
hotaisle.xyz/investors — Raise target, capacity fully utilized
admin.hotaisle.app/api/docs/ — API scope: VMs, bare metal, credits, auto-rebill
github.com/hotaisle/hotaisle-cli — CLI availability
hotaisle.xyz/policies/maintenance-policy — Status page not yet set up, maintenance notice
hotaisle.xyz/policies/shared-responsibility-model — Customer responsible for backups
hotaisle.xyz/contact — Email support

Questions about Hot Aisle

What GPUs does Hot Aisle offer?

Hot Aisle has 1 GPU types with a fresh offer today, for example MI300X from $2.99 per GPU-hour on-demand. The full list with prices and market medians is on this page.

How does Hot Aisle bill?

Billing granularity: per minute.

How trustworthy is Hot Aisle?

Its Trust Score is 73/100 (v0.1), read from its own documents. Strong on company & track record, infrastructure control. Weaker on pricing & billing transparency, reliability signals. The score measures transparency and published guarantees, not customer satisfaction; every criterion and its source is listed above.

Where are Hot Aisle's data centres?

1 named regions in 1 countries: United States.

How do you pay Hot Aisle, and are there credits?

Payment by card, invoice, crypto. No sign-up credit is published.