Alternatives to Core Scientific
Core Scientific in the SAVRN Index: 982 MW at 6 named sites, $1.2B disclosed site capital, no GPU prices published. Below, every other neocloud and GPU provider the Index tracks, ranked on the same figures.
Core Scientific emerged from Chapter 11 on January 23, 2024, converting roughly $400 million of debt into equity and relisting on Nasdaq with 724MW of capacity across five states.
Every alternative, ranked by disclosed capacity
| # | Provider | Category | H100, listlowest published $/GPU-hour | B200, listlowest published $/GPU-hour | GPUs priced | Named sitesCapital Atlas | Disclosed capacity | Disclosed site capital | Listing |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crusoe Energy | NeoCloud | $3.90 | 3 | 4 | 4,900 MW | $15.0B | Private | |
| 2 | IREN | NeoCloud | 2 | 2,750 MW | NASDAQ:IREN | ||||
| 3 | Poolside | NeoCloud | 1 | 2,000 MW | Private | ||||
| 4 | Fluidstack | NeoCloud | 3 | 1,668 MW | $4.0B | Private | |||
| 5 | Applied Digital | NeoCloud | 5 | 1,540 MW | $22.8B | NASDAQ:APLD | |||
| 6 | Nebius Group | NeoCloud | $3.85 | $7.15 | 4 | 4 | 1,500 MW | NASDAQ:NBIS | |
| 7 | Cipher Digital Inc. | NeoCloud | 3 | 1,368 MW | $2.0B | NASDAQ:CIFR | |||
| 8 | Sesterce | NeoCloud | 3 | 1,000 MW | Private | ||||
| 9 | Bitdeer Technologies Group | NeoCloud | 2 | 784 MW | NASDAQ:BTDR | ||||
| 10 | TeraWulf | NeoCloud | 3 | 761 MW | $3.2B | NASDAQ:WULF | |||
| 11 | Nscale | NeoCloud | 2 | 700 MW | Private | ||||
| 12 | Hut 8 Corp. | NeoCloud | 1 | 352 MW | NASDAQ:HUT | ||||
| 13 | Galaxy Digital Inc. | NeoCloud | 2 | 334 MW | NASDAQ:GLXY | ||||
| 14 | CoreWeave | NeoCloud | $4.25 | $8.60 | 6 | 4 | 326 MW | $3.4B | NASDAQ:CRWV |
| 15 | Vultr | NeoCloud | $2.30 | $3.50 | 5 | 1 | 50 MW | $1.0B | Private |
| 16 | Lambda (Lambda Labs) | NeoCloud | $3.29 | $6.69 | 3 | 2 | 24 MW | Private | |
| 17 | Voltage Park | NeoCloud | $1.99 | 1 | 6 | Private | |||
| 18 | Cerebras Systems | NeoCloud | 6 | NASDAQ:CBRS | |||||
| 19 | Groq | NeoCloud | 1 | $1.5B | Private | ||||
| 20 | Verda | GPU cloud | $3.56 | $6.85 | 5 | Private | |||
| 21 | TheAI Cloud | GPU cloud | 3 | Private | |||||
| 22 | DigitalOcean | GPU cloud | $4.41 | 7 | NYSE:DOCN | ||||
| 23 | Massed Compute | GPU cloud | $2.73 | $5.43 | 4 | Private | |||
| 24 | Astra Intellectus | GPU cloud | 4 | Private | |||||
| 25 | Runpod | GPU cloud | $2.89 | $6.79 | 4 | Private | |||
| 26 | Together AI | NeoCloud | $3.99 | $8.19 | 3 | Private | |||
| 27 | Cirrascale | GPU cloud | $2.49 | 4 | Private | ||||
| 28 | Fireworks AI (dedicated) | GPU cloud | $8.00 | $13.00 | 5 | Private | |||
| 29 | GMI Cloud | GPU cloud | $2.00 | $4.00 | 4 | Private | |||
| 30 | Hyperbolic | GPU cloud | $3.19 | $5.99 | 3 | Private | |||
| 31 | Baseten | GPU cloud | $6.50 | $9.98 | 2 | Private | |||
| 32 | Denvr Dataworks | GPU cloud | $2.45 | 1 | Private | ||||
| 33 | Corvex, Inc. | NeoCloud | NASDAQ:MOVE | ||||||
| 34 | Dell | GPU cloud | NYSE:DELL | ||||||
| 35 | HPE | GPU cloud | NYSE:HPE | ||||||
| 36 | Lightning AI | GPU cloud | Private | ||||||
| 37 | SambaNova Systems | NeoCloud | Private | ||||||
| 38 | TensorWave | GPU cloud | Private | ||||||
| 39 | Vast.ai (marketplace medians) | GPU cloud | Private |
What are the alternatives to Core Scientific?
The SAVRN Index classes 39 other companies as neoclouds or GPU providers: Crusoe Energy, IREN, Poolside, Fluidstack, Applied Digital, Nebius Group, Cipher Digital Inc., Sesterce, Bitdeer Technologies Group, TeraWulf and others. The table ranks them by disclosed capacity.
Which alternatives are larger than Core Scientific?
8 have more capacity disclosed at named sites than Core Scientific's 982 MW: Crusoe Energy (4,900 MW), IREN (2,750 MW), Poolside (2,000 MW), Fluidstack (1,668 MW), Applied Digital (1,540 MW), Nebius Group (1,500 MW).
Which alternatives publish a lower H100 price than Core Scientific?
Core Scientific has no H100 list price confirmed by the tracker. 19 of the alternatives publish GPU prices: Crusoe Energy, Nebius Group, CoreWeave, Vultr, Lambda (Lambda Labs), Voltage Park, Verda, TheAI Cloud.
Is SAVRN an alternative to Core Scientific?
For a customer that wants capacity it controls rather than capacity it rents, yes: SAVRN delivers single-tenant AI factory blocks on their own power behind the customer's boundary. SAVRN is not a GPU-hour cloud, so it is not ranked in the table; its controlled AI environment is described on the sovereign compute page.
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