Your AI training job is queued on AWS. You're waiting. The bill is climbing. Meanwhile, a team at CoreWeave just provisioned 512 H100s in under 15 minutes — paying 40% less per GPU-hour. That gap is real, and it's why more engineering teams are rethinking their AI infrastructure stack. What's a Neocloud? Neoclouds are GPU-first cloud providers — CoreWeave, Nebius, Lambda Labs, Voltage Park — built exclusively for AI workloads. No managed databases, no serverless functions, no CDN. Just bare-metal GPU compute at scale, fast. The Core Tradeoffs Hyperscaler Neocloud GPU availability Waitlisted Fast provisioning Pricing Complex, bundled Transparent per-GPU-hour Cost vs baseline — 30–60% cheaper Service breadth Thousands of services Compute-focused Compliance Extensive Growing When to use a Neocloud Pure AI training / fine-tuning / inference workloads When GPU availability is blocking your team When you want bare-metal performance without virtualization overhead When to stick with a Hyperscaler AI workload is…