# Akash costs one-third to one-fourth of centralized cloud

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2021-06-27
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Enter Decentralized Cloud & Unstoppable Web with Akash Network & Deeper - DeFi Conference Day 1 (Dcentral Con)
- **Watch at:** 00:08:32 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV6Zu5_AVKA&t=512s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2021-06-27-akash-costs-one-third-to-one-fourth-of-centralized-nyza/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Akash costs one-third to one-fourth of centralized cloud," Enter Decentralized Cloud & Unstoppable Web with Akash Network & Deeper - DeFi Conference Day 1 (Dcentral Con), 27 Jun 2021, 00:08:32. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iV6Zu5_AVKA&t=512s

## Quote — verbatim

> When it comes to Akash, the cost advantage of using Akash versus a centralized cloud is one-third... sometimes it is one-fourth, like when compared to Google. And the reason for that is because open marketplaces generally tend to optimize for the forces of demand-supply for pricing, versus an individual setting the price.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

Third pillar of his decentralization pitch: market-based pricing structurally beats administered hyperscaler pricing.