Marketplace · United States
Shadeform
US GPU marketplace that resells on-demand instances from about 20 third-party clouds through one console, API and wallet, and brokers reserved clusters via quotes.
GPU types29with a current offer
Current offers283289 readings on file · last 45 days
H100 from$2.50per GPU-hour, on-demand
Entry price$2.50cheapest GPU-hour listed
Countries1598 named regions
Trust Score v0.145/100
- Company & track record47
- Infrastructure control60
- Pricing & billing transparency65
- Reliability signals30
- Security & compliance20
- Customer signal—
Scored Sep 29, 2026 from the provider's own pages. Dimensions not yet measured are excluded from the denominator. Criteria ↓
Trust Score · 5 of 6 dimensions measuredThe 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%
47 / 100
| Founding year published | not disclosedshadeform.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 4 |
| Headquarters published | Shadeform, Inc.shadeform.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
| Legal entity named | Shadeform, Inc.shadeform.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Funding or ownership disclosed | not disclosedshadeform.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 4 |
Infrastructure control
weight 15%
60 / 100
| Capacity model published | third-party hostsshadeform.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 10 |
| Regions published | 98 regions or countriesshadeform.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
Pricing & billing transparency
weight 20%
65 / 100
| Public prices without an account | yes (read on the pricing page)shadeform.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
| Billing granularity published | per secondshadeform.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Egress policy published | not disclosedshadeform.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 4 |
| Stopped-instance billing published | No stop state in the public API (create, restart, delete only); billing ends when the instance enters 'deleting'. Attached volumes bill separately per GB-hour.shadeform.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Public IPv4 policy published | not disclosedshadeform.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 3 |
Reliability signals
weight 20%
30 / 100
| Status page | not disclosedshadeform.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 6 |
| SLA published | None of its own: inherits each underlying cloud's SLA, shared on request; all GPUs stated to be in Tier 3 or Tier 4 data centersshadeform.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 6 / 6 |
| SLA with a numeric uptime commitment | not disclosedshadeform.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 3 |
| Uptime history published | not disclosedshadeform.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 5 |
| Observed availability (30 days) | not measured yet | — |
Security & compliance
weight 15%
20 / 100
| SOC 2 | not disclosedshadeform.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 8 |
| ISO 27001 | not disclosedshadeform.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 4 |
| HIPAA or GDPR DPA | no (ToS: Shadeform is not a HIPAA business associate unless a separate BAA is signed)shadeform.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
Customer signal
weight 15%
not measured
| Aggregated public reviews | not collected yet | — |
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 offerWhat Shadeform 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H100 | $2.50 | $3.17 | −21% | 4 | on-demand | H100 prices |
All offers · 289 readings on fileEvery Shadeform 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H100SXMmarketplace floor | 1× H100 SXM | On-demand | Canada | Stock unknown | $2.50 | $2.50 | 00:32 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| H100SXM | 1× H100 SXM | On-demand | France | Stock unknown | $3.30 | $3.30 | 00:32 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| H100SXM | 1× H100 SXM | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $4.29 | $4.29 | 00:32 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| H100SXM | 1× H100 SXM | On-demand | US | Stock unknown | $4.36 | $4.36 | 00:32 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, 2026What 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 second
- Minimum charge
- not published
- Stopped instance
- No stop state in the public API (create, restart, delete only); billing ends when the instance enters 'deleting'. Attached volumes bill separately per GB-hour.
- Egress
- not published
- Public IPv4
- not published
- Billing model
- both
- Minimum deposit
- not published
- Free credits
- not published
Account
- Payment
- card · invoice · crypto (not published)
- Sign-up
- email, password, wallet top-up before API use
- Identity check
- not published
- Support
- email, slack, contact form, booked call
- Enterprise support
- not published
- SLA
- None of its own: inherits each underlying cloud's SLA, shared on request; all GPUs stated to be in Tier 3 or Tier 4 data centers
- Status page
- not published
- Published uptime
- not published
Infrastructure
- Regions
98 named regions in 15 countries
AU · Sydney (Australia) · CA · Calgary (Canada) · CA · Montreal (Canada) · CA · Toronto (Canada) · DE · Frankfurt (Germany) · FI · Central (Finland) · FI · Helsinki (Finland) · FR · Paris (France) · GB · London (United Kingdom) · IL · Jerusalem (Israel) · IN · Bangalore (India) · IN · Mumbai (India) · IS · Blonduos 2 (Iceland) · IS · Blonduos 3 (Iceland) · JP · Kagawa (Japan) · JP · Osaka (Japan) · JP · Tokyo (Japan) · NL · Amsterdam (Netherlands) · NO · Central (Norway) · NO · Oslo (Norway) · PL · Warsaw (Poland) · SG · Singapore (Singapore) · US · Ashburn · VA (United States) · US · Atlanta · GA (United States) · US · Atlanta · US (United States) · US · Austin · TX (United States) · US · Baltimore · MD (United States) · US · Beltsville · MD (United States) · US · Casper · WY (United States) · US · Charlotte · NC (United States) · US · Chicago · IL (United States) · US · Culpeper · VA (United States) · US · Dallas · TX (United States) · US · Denver · CO (United States) · US · Des Moines · IA (United States) · US · Dowagiac · MI (United States) · US · Dulles · VA (United States) · US · Fairview · OH (United States) · US · Houston · TX (United States) · US · Kansas City · KS (United States) …- Countries
- Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States
- Platform
- API, Jupyter, SSH, custom Docker images, persistent volumes, spot or interruptible, bare metalTerraform: officialKubernetes: noInterconnect: Per underlying cloud: SXM5/SXM6 NVLink nodes; InfiniBand or RoCE on listed reserved clustersClusters: Clusters API (/clusters/create, /clusters/types); reserved clusters by quote, terms 1 week to 3 years, usually at least one 8-GPU node; Kubernetes offered at extra cost on reservations
- Storage
- volume · per GB-hour, set per cloud and region (API reference example: 0.0001 USD/GB-hour Hyperstack canada-1, i.e. 0.072 USD/GB-month at 720 h) · Docs label volume prices as example data; live prices only via the authenticated /volumes/types API. Volumes attach only to instances in the same cloud and region, one volume per instance.
- Migration out
- Workloads run on standard VMs or bare metal of the underlying clouds, so data and images move off with standard tools (rsync, container registries). Volumes cannot move between clouds. In bring-your-own-account mode the instances already live in the customer's own cloud account.
Security & compliance
- SOC 2
- not published
- ISO 27001
- not published
- HIPAA
- no (ToS: Shadeform is not a HIPAA business associate unless a separate BAA is signed)
- GDPR / DPA
- not published (privacy policy references the EU-US Data Privacy Framework)
- Other
- Trust center at trust.shadeform.com gated behind an access request; credentials shown in the cloud directory (SOC 2, HIPAA, ISO 27001) belong to the underlying providers
- Legal entity
- Shadeform, Inc.
- Funding
- not published
Read on the provider's own pages · 20 pages read · facts marked "not published" were looked for and not foundPages read ↓
Assessment · documents read Sep 29, 2026Shadeform, in short
What stood out when we read the documents: strengths, weaknesses, who it suits, and what we could not find.
Strengths
- 274 priced GPU configurations across 19 clouds and 28 GPU models in one public catalogue, prices visible without an account
- States no fees and no markup versus renting direct from each cloud
- Lowest listed per-GPU-hour prices: H100 PCIe 1.66 (Latitude), H100 SXM 1.95 (8x node), H200 2.25 (8x bare metal), B200 3.74 (8x bare metal), RTX 4090 0.40
- B200, B300, GH200, H100 NVL and Gaudi 2 in the catalogue
- Per-second billing on on-demand and spot
- Official Terraform provider (shadeform/shadeform) and a SkyPilot guide
- Bring-your-own cloud account mode to spend existing cloud credits
- Reserved terms from 1 week to 3 years via request for quote
Weaknesses
- Each listing inherits the underlying cloud's hardware, network, SLA and data policy; no SLA of its own
- Fees non-refundable; refunds below 500 USD not issued (ToS 6.1, 6.4)
- Volumes tied to one cloud and region, one volume per instance
- Spot prices only visible through the authenticated API
- Egress, IPv4 and payment methods other than cards and invoices not published
- 73 of 299 listed instance types had availability in at least one region on the check date
- Trust center documents gated; no own SOC 2 report published
- Quote (RFQ) users bound by a 3-year non-circumvention clause (ToS 2.4)
Ideal for
- Teams that want to compare and launch GPUs across many clouds with one bill and one API
- Buyers of reserved 8-GPU+ clusters who want several quotes
- Users with credits on supported clouds who want one control plane
Not published
- Spot prices exist on select Shade Cloud instance types but are only returned by the authenticated /instances/types API
- Payment methods beyond credit/debit cards and invoice payments (PayPal, crypto) not published
- Minimum wallet top-up, free credits and minimum charge not published
- Identity/KYC process not published
- the ToS lists 'know-your-customer information' among data Shadeform controls without describing a check
- Egress and IPv4 pricing not published
- Live volume storage prices per cloud (docs show example values only)
- Founding year, HQ city and funding not stated on the official pages read
- Display names of clouds with ids 'horizon' and 'amaya' (absent from the public cloud directory)
- Instance prices were read from the catalogue embedded in the marketplace page HTML
- rendered text shows only the first 6 listings, but the /prices 'starting from' values and the H100 detail page match the embedded data
Observations
The registry pricing URL (/pricing) returns 404; the pricing page is shadeform.com/prices with 'starting from' per-GPU-hour prices for 9 GPU types
Marketplace widget lists instances 6 per page (50 pages) with price per instance-hour, provider, regions, interconnect, deployment type
Instance detail pages show average, min and max prices across clouds for the same GPU
Reserved capacity table lists B300 SXM6 and RTX PRO 6000 clusters for Q4 2026 with 12 to 48 month minimum terms, no prices
shadeform.ai redirects to shadeform.com
Pages read
- shadeform.com/ — All 274 GPU instance prices, specs, regions, availability
- shadeform.com/directory/instances — Marketplace listing, GPU type list
- shadeform.com/directory/instances/massedcompute/H100 — Cross-check of H100 prices across clouds
- shadeform.com/prices — No fees/markup claim, starting-from prices
- shadeform.com/directory/clouds — Cloud list and credentials of underlying providers
- shadeform.com/features/on-demand-instances — Per-second billing, region claims, GPU types
- shadeform.com/features/reserved-commitments — Reserved terms, cluster listings, Kubernetes at extra cost
- docs.shadeform.ai/getting-started/faq — Billing model, invoices, SLA, support channels
- docs.shadeform.ai/getting-started/quickstart — Wallet top-up required before API key
- docs.shadeform.ai/getting-started/concepts — Shade Cloud vs own cloud access, Docker and script launch
- docs.shadeform.ai/guides/spotinstances — Spot mode, per-second billing
- docs.shadeform.ai/guides/attachvolume — Volume constraints
- docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/volumes/volumes-types — Volume price unit
- docs.shadeform.ai/api-reference/instances/instances-types.md — hourly_price is in cents
- docs.shadeform.ai/llms.txt — API surface: instances, clusters, volumes, templates, SSH keys
- shadeform.com/terms-of-service — Legal entity, non-refundable fees, 500 USD refund minimum, HIPAA stance, non-circumvention
- shadeform.com/privacy-policy — Card payments via third-party processor, EU-US DPF
- trust.shadeform.com — Gated access
- registry.terraform.io/providers/shadeform/shadeform/latest/docs — Official Terraform provider
- github.com/shadeform — terraform-provider-shadeform repository
Questions about Shadeform
What GPUs does Shadeform offer?
Shadeform has 29 GPU types with a fresh offer today, for example H100 from $2.50 per GPU-hour on-demand. The full list with prices and market medians is on this page.
How does Shadeform bill?
Billing granularity: per second. Stopped instance: No stop state in the public API (create, restart, delete only); billing ends when the instance enters 'deleting'. Attached volumes bill separately per GB-hour.
How trustworthy is Shadeform?
Its Trust Score is 45/100 (v0.1), read from its own documents. Weaker on company & track record, infrastructure control, pricing & billing transparency, reliability signals, security & compliance. The score measures transparency and published guarantees, not customer satisfaction; every criterion and its source is listed above.
Where are Shadeform's data centres?
98 named regions in 15 countries: Australia, Canada, Finland, France, Germany, Iceland, India, Israel, Japan, Netherlands, Norway, Poland, Singapore, United Kingdom, United States.
How do you pay Shadeform, and are there credits?
Payment by card, invoice, crypto. No sign-up credit is published.