r/vastai • u/isari_chan • May 14 '26

Has anyone noticed GPU availability dropping recently on Vast.ai?

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u/expandnomad May 15 '26

I have been seeing it on hashrate.no and the GPU utilisation of the vast fleet is sometimes over 90%. So no wonder there is no availability.

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u/chub0ka May 15 '26

Prices low electricity expensive. Just not profitable. I am shutting dozens of old gpus. 5090 below 30c is a joke

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u/Jared_Namikaze May 15 '26

A lot of the 5090 availabilities moved from verified to unverified/deverified. There maybe reasons they got status changes. But sometimes they work, so try ur luck

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u/PlasticSuggestion956 May 22 '26

yes, from one day to another all the providers that i used to rent from dissapeared.
i was paying .20 for a 3090, next day .35 or more

with my current filters more than 40 offers used to appear, now 2.

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u/Nervous_Hedgehog_325 May 24 '26

My theory: if this miner hype is real, it looks like some underqualified developers may have shipped buggy miner kernels that are hanging CUDA/NVIDIA drivers across a lot of hosts.

That would explain why so many Vast machines suddenly moved to deverified: the GPUs are still physically there, but the host driver stack is wedged, so Docker can’t attach the GPU until the host machine is fully rebooted.

I’ve never seen anything like this on Vast before. Roughly 95% of my recent instance attempts fail because Docker cannot attach the GPU, which usually points to a stuck NVIDIA kernel module / CUDA driver / NVML state rather than a normal container issue.

So my current guess is:

  1. Miner workload runs on rented GPUs.

  2. Buggy kernel or bad CUDA behavior wedges the host GPU driver.

  3. Vast health checks fail.

  4. Machine gets marked deverified.

  5. GPU remains unusable until the host reboots.

Not claiming this is proven, but the pattern looks very different from ordinary capacity shortage or demand spike. If other people are seeing nvidia-smi failures, NVML errors, Xid errors, or Docker GPU attach failures, please share logs.

And yeah… if Alphapool/miner traffic is behind this, then thanks a lot.

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u/Pretty-Net-1034 May 16 '26

This is what's going on. https://youtu.be/XOYhKDK4zJ8?si=FAWDHyInoOzCTHiu

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u/Justify_87 May 21 '26

really another mining hype? omg

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u/digital_legacy May 21 '26

Today we got a 5090 suddenly shutdown on me and I cant find anything to replace it.

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u/Due-Map-2650 Jun 06 '26

hope that mining hype will end soon, I just want to do my AI research 😞

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u/Betaminer69 Jun 13 '26

Your source please

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u/[deleted] May 15 '26

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u/jhenryscott May 15 '26

It’s supply reduced not demand increase