Ori Industries vs Banana
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Ori Industries and Banana.
Quick Verdict
3.5/5
Ori Industries
0 reviews
1.2/5
Banana
0 reviews
Ori Industries is rated higher (3.5 vs 1.2). Ori Industries is a UK AI cloud company offering distributed GPU compute across their own and partner datacenters. Focused on UK and EU compliance for AI model training. Banana was an ML inference hosting platform (Docker-based, Potassium framework). The service shut down permanently on March 31, 2024; do not purchase. Alternatives: Replicate, Modal, RunPod, Beam, Baseten.
Ori Industries Distributed GPU infrastructure for ML training and inference | Banana DEFUNCT — serverless GPU inference platform sunset Feb 2024, shut down March 31, 2024 | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.5 (0 reviews)✓ | 1.2 (0 reviews) |
| Pricing model | paid | usage-based (historical; shut down 2024-03-31) |
| Starting price | From $0.83/mo✓ | From $2024/mo |
| Best for | ML teams and AI products that need current-generation NVIDIA GPUs at low cost with per-minute billing — especially UK/EU buyers wanting H200/H100 capacity on UK soil and organisations exploring a private AI cloud | Nobody — the platform shut down on March 31, 2024. Use Replicate, Modal, RunPod, Beam, or Baseten for serverless GPU inference. |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | 8 vCPU | — |
| RAM | 45 GB | — |
| Storage | 300 GB | — |
| Bandwidth | — | — |
| SLA uptime | — | — |
| Data-center count | 15 | — |
| €/vCPU/mo | €0.10 | — |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €0.02 | — |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ✓ | |
| Free tier | ||
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | 15+ regions claimed (unlisted); UK region confirmed at Kao Data Harlow | — |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | hourly billinggpu availableeu datacenter | gpu availableus datacenterapi access |
| Visit Ori Industries → | Visit Banana → | |
Ori Industries
Pros
- + Published, competitive GPU rates (H100 $2.90/h, H200 $3.50/h) with per-minute billing and no ingress or egress fees
- + Generous per-GPU host resources (24 vCPU / 240 GB RAM / 3 TB storage on single-H100 instances) and preinstalled ML stacks
- + Real UK data sovereignty option: first UK H200 deployment at Kao Data's Harlow campus (DGX-Ready, renewable-powered)
- + Single-GPU entry point (V100 $0.83/h) plus serverless Kubernetes, scale-to-zero inference, and 1,000+ GPU private clouds
Cons
- - No published uptime SLA and limited operational track record — contractual terms must be negotiated
- - Region list unpublished despite '15+ regions' claims; independent documentation and community coverage are thin
- - Young, venture-stage company mid-merger with Radiant — roadmap and pricing continuity carry counterparty risk
- - Compute-and-inference scope only: no managed database or full application platform; no free tier for evaluation
Banana
Pros
- + Historical: developer-friendly Docker/Potassium deployment with scale-to-zero GPU autoscaling
- + Historical: per-second GPU billing with no charge while idle
- + Historical: warm pools and model caching reduced cold starts for popular models
- + The founder published an unusually candid shutdown account and migration guidance
Cons
- - Permanently shut down on March 31, 2024 — the service cannot be purchased or used
- - Pricing was opaque even while alive ($1,200/month Team tier, per-GPU costs unpublished)
- - No published uptime SLA and no independent benchmarks
- - Startup platform risk realized: GPU economics forced closure within two months' notice
- - Third-party listings of its pricing and features conflict and cannot be verified against a live product
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