GPUBank vs Civo
Civo is a London cloud provider known for managed Kubernetes that rents NVIDIA GPUs, from the L40S to the B300, as instances or Kubernetes nodes, in its London region only. Its H100 SXM costs $2.99 per GPU-hour on demand; GPUBank charges $1.85. Civo has a 99.95 % SLA, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II, and long commitment discounts; GPUBank bills by the second, runs GPUs in four regions and takes crypto.
GPUBank
Tallinn, Estonia
H100 SXM
$1.85 / h
- vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4 and traffic included
- Per-second billing after the health check
- Top up in Bitcoin, USDT and 12+ other coins
vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4 and traffic included
Civo
London, United Kingdom
H100 SXM
$2.99 / h
- Managed Kubernetes with GPU node pools and a free control plane
- 99.95 % SLA with credits up to 100 %
- ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II stated
Civo
Developer cloud
United Kingdom27 points compared19 of their pages readprices last checked on 29 September 2026page updated 2 November 2026
The verdict
Kubernetes, an SLA and UK sovereignty at Civo. Lower on-demand prices and per-second billing at GPUBank.
Civo suits UK teams that want GPUs in a UK sovereign cloud, GPU node pools in managed Kubernetes and a 99.95 % SLA. On demand, GPUBank costs 29 to 57 % less per GPU-hour on the GPUs both of us list. Civo has no on-demand B200 price, and its 36-month B200 rate of $3.79 is below GPUBank's $4.15. Civo rounds usage up to the hour, bills stopped instances at the full price and takes cards only; GPUBank bills by the second, charges only the disk when stopped and takes crypto.
CivoGPUBank 01The real cost
The same GPUs, side by side, per hour.
Every GPU model both of us rent, at each provider's own published price for one card, in US dollars, excluding VAT. Prices last checked on 29 September 2026.
| GPU | Civo per hour | GPUBank per hour | Difference | 100 h at Civo | 100 h at GPUBank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 B200 SXM180 GB · their reserved price |
$3.79 | $4.15 | +9 % | $379.00 | $415.00 |
 H200 SXM141 GB |
$3.49 | $2.49 | −29 % | $349.00 | $249.00 |
 H100 SXM80 GB |
$2.99 | $1.85 | −38 % | $299.00 | $185.00 |
 H100 PCIe80 GB |
$2.49 | $1.35 | −46 % | $249.00 | $135.00 |
 A100 SXM80 GB |
$1.79 | $0.95 | −47 % | $179.00 | $95.00 |
 L40S48 GB |
$1.29 | $0.55 | −57 % | $129.00 | $55.00 |
Civo shows no on-demand B200 price. The B200 figure is its 36-month commitment rate on an 8-GPU node. All other Civo figures are on-demand rates in London, billed by the hour.
Where Civo publishes no on-demand price for a model, its lowest published reserved price is used, as labelled on the row.
A fine-tune, 40 h on an H100 SXM
Civo
$119.60
GPUBank
$74.00
Saves $45.60 at GPUBank (−38 %)
An inference box, a month, 720 h, on an L40S
Civo
$928.80
GPUBank
$396.00
Saves $532.80 at GPUBank (−57 %)
A long-context job, 40 h on an H200
Civo
$139.60
GPUBank
$99.60
Saves $40.00 at GPUBank (−29 %)
02Their catalogue
Every GPU Civo lists.
8 GPU models listed by Civo, each at its lowest public price per GPU-hour. 6 of them are also rented at GPUBank (in blue).
- B300288 GB · on demand$7.49
- B200180 GB · reserved$3.79
- H200141 GB · on demand$3.49
- H100 SXM80 GB · on demand$2.99
- H100 PCIe80 GB · on demand$2.49
- A100 SXM 80GB80 GB · on demand$1.79
- A100 40GB40 GB · on demand$1.09
- L40S48 GB · on demand$1.29
At GPUBank
vCPU, RAM, NVMe and traffic included. All prices
03What the price includes
What appears on the bill besides the GPU.
The same H100 SXM session of 2 h 14 m 03 s, line by line, as each provider describes its billing.
Civo
2 h 14 m 03 s on H100 SXM
- GPU · $2.99 / h
- $6.68
- vCPU and RAM
- Included
- Storage
- About $0.107 per GB-month (volumes)
- Egress
- Free and unlimited
- Public IPv4
- Not published
- Billing granularity
- Per hour, rounded up
- Minimum charge
- One hour
GPUBank
2 h 14 m 03 s on H100 SXM
- GPU · $1.85 / h
- $4.13
- vCPU and RAM
- Included
- Storage
- Local NVMe included; persistent disk $0.03 per GB-month
- Egress
- Included
- Public IPv4
- Included
- Billing granularity
- Per second, from the health check
- Minimum charge
- None
While stopped
What keeps running on the bill.
Civo
Billed at the full hourly price.
GPUBank
Only the persistent disk, $0.03 per GB-month. Compute, IPv4 and scratch cost nothing.
04Where the GPUs run
1 country against 4, and where they are.
Countries where Civo says its GPUs run, from its own region list or documentation, against GPUBank's four regions. A pin marks a country, not the exact site.
United Kingdom
Paris
Frankfurt
Ashburn
Singapore
Civo1
- United Kingdom
GPUBank4
Paris
Frankfurt
Ashburn
Singapore
Civo · 1 countryGPUBank · 4 regions
05Paying and signing up
How each one takes your money.
Civo
Payments and sign-up
Payment methods
No cryptoMinimum top-up None; $250 credit at sign-up
To start
- 1Email and password
- 2Phone
- 3Card
- 4Billing address
Billing modelPostpaid, monthly invoice to a card
GPUBank
Payments and sign-up
Payment methods
A prepaid USD balance, topped up in crypto. Every GPU-second is drawn from it.
Minimum top-up $25
To start
- 1Email and password
- 2Top up in crypto
- 3Launch a GPU
Billing modelPrepaid balance
06Trust and support
Certificates, uptime and who answers.
| Civo | GPUBank | |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Not published |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | Not published |
| HIPAA | Not published | No |
| GDPR DPA | DPA available | Published DPA, applies automatically |
| Availability target | 99.95 %, credits up to 100 % | 99.9 % monthly, per region |
| Status page | status.civo.com | Public status page |
| Support | Email and support form | Tickets from a $25 balance |
07Their site, our site
What you see before you pay.
Both sites as a visitor sees them, without an account: the Civo pricing page captured on 29 September 2026, and GPUBank's live board. Cookie banners and chat bubbles are closed; nothing else is edited.
- 1The pricing page shows hourly and monthly prices, with a commitment selector that defaults to 36 months.
- 2The Cloud GPU page claims from just $0.69 per GPU-hour, which is the 36-month A100 40GB rate.
- 3Sign up and get $250 free credits is shown on the pricing page.
- 1Live stock per region and every price, without an account.
- 2Per-hour and per-second prices, with vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4 and traffic in them.
- 3A machine-readable price feed at /prices.json.
08The spec sheet
27 points, read off both sites.
GPUBank aheadCivo aheadEven
| Criterion | GPUBank | Civo |
|---|---|---|
| Price and catalogue | ||
| H100 SXM, per GPU-hour | $1.85, all-in | $2.99 per GPU-hour |
| Cheapest GPU-hour | $0.23, RTX 4090 | $1.09, A100 40GB |
| GPU models listed | 10 | 8 |
| What the GPU price includesBoth include compute and a local disk in the GPU price. | vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4, traffic | vCPU, RAM, local NVMe |
| Billing | ||
| Billing granularity | Per second | Per hour, rounded up |
| Minimum charge | None | One hour |
| Stopped instance | Disk only | Billed at the full hourly price |
| Persistent storage | $0.03 per GB-month | About $0.107 per GB-month (volumes) |
| Egress traffic | Included | Free and unlimited |
| Public IPv4 | Included | Not published |
| Billing model | Prepaid balance | Postpaid, monthly invoice to a card |
| Payment and sign-up | ||
| Crypto paymentsCivo billing docs list Amex, MasterCard and Visa through Stripe; crypto is not accepted. | Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more | Not offered: cards only |
| Card payments | No | Amex, MasterCard, Visa; no prepaid cardsAhead |
| Minimum deposit | $25 | None; $250 credit at sign-upAhead |
| Platform | ||
| API and CLI | REST API, CLI, Python SDK | REST API, official CLI |
| Terraform | Official provider | Official provider |
| Serverless GPUs | No | No |
| Managed Kubernetes | No | Managed, GPU nodes, free control planeAhead |
| Ready-made templates | 25 | Marketplace of Kubernetes apps |
| Interruptible or spot | Yes, 40 % off | No |
| GPUs per instance | Up to 8 | Up to 8 |
| Multi-node interconnect | Not offered | Not published |
| Network and regions | ||
| RegionsFRA1, NYC1 and MUM1 exist but have no GPUs. | 4 | 1 for GPUs (London) |
| Countries | France, Germany, US, Singapore | United Kingdom |
| EU regions | Paris, Frankfurt | None for GPUs |
| Trust and support | ||
| Availability target | 99.9 % monthly | 99.95 %, credits up to 100 %Ahead |
| Compliance reports | None published | ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type IIAhead |
| Public status page | Yes | status.civo.com |
| Support | Tickets from a $25 balance | Email and support form |
09The right fit
Different needs. A clear choice.
What Civo does better
- Managed Kubernetes with GPU node pools and a free control plane
- 99.95 % SLA with credits up to 100 %
- ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II stated
- Commitments of 6 to 36 months, A100 40GB from $0.69 per GPU-hour
- $250 in credits at sign-up
Choose GPUBank if
- H100 SXM at $1.85 per GPU-hour, against $2.99 on demand
- Per-second billing; Civo rounds up to the full hour
- Stop an instance and pay only for its disk
- GPUs in Paris, Frankfurt, Ashburn and Singapore; Civo GPUs are London only
- Pay in Bitcoin, USDT and 12+ other coins, no phone or card check
Moving from Civo takes an afternoon.
Civo charges no egress, so copying data out of volumes and object storage costs nothing on its side. Unpaid accounts are suspended and deleted two weeks later, so move data before closing billing.
- 1Launch the same GPU on GPUBank with a persistent disk in the region you need.
- 2Copy volumes with rsync, and object storage buckets with rclone over the S3 API.
- 3Run the same Docker image or pick the matching template, then delete Civo instances.
# 1. a GPU and a disk on GPUBank gpubank launch --gpu h100-sxm --region eu-paris --disk data # 2. copy your data from the old machine rsync -azP old-host:/workspace/ root@<new-ip>:/workspace/ # 3. run the same image or template ssh root@<new-ip> 'cd /workspace && ./start.sh'
A few things you might be wondering.
Yes, on demand. Civo lists the H100 SXM at $2.99 per GPU-hour and a 36-month commitment at $2.49. GPUBank charges $1.85 per GPU-hour on demand, billed by the second.
Only in London. Civo's regions page lists GPU compute and GPU Kubernetes in LON1 only; Frankfurt, New York and Mumbai have no GPUs. GPUBank rents GPUs in Paris, Frankfurt, Ashburn and Singapore.
At the full hourly price. Civo charges stopped instances and clusters exactly like running ones, and rounds usage up to the nearest hour. On GPUBank a stopped instance costs only its persistent disk, at $0.03 per GB-month.
No. Civo takes Amex, MasterCard and Visa through Stripe and refuses prepaid and virtual cards. GPUBank is paid from a USD balance topped up in Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and more than a dozen other coins, from $25.
Only with a commitment. Civo shows no on-demand B200 price; its 8-GPU B200 costs $3.79 per GPU-hour on a 36-month term and $4.49 on 12 months. GPUBank rents a B200 SXM at $4.15 on demand with no term.
Without. Every price on this page excludes VAT and sales tax, for Civo and for GPUBank, so the two columns compare like for like. Tax is added at checkout according to where the buyer is based.
Sources
Every figure about Civo was read on its own pages or official documentation. Prices last checked on 29 September 2026.
- 01civo.com/pricingAll GPU on-demand and commitment prices, storage, egress, free credits
- 02civo.com/ai/cloud-gpuH100 PCIe price, stock status, ISO 27001 and SOC 2 Type II statement
- 03civo.com/ai/b200-blackwell-gpuB200 'from $3.79', UK sovereign location
- 04civo.com/ai/b300-blackwell-ultra-gpuB300 'from $5.45'
- 05civo.com/ai/gpu-computeSovereignty statement
- 06civo.com/ai/kubernetes-gpuGPU Kubernetes, no hidden fees
- 07civo.com/docs/account/billingHourly rounding, stopped instances billed, monthly invoice, card types, credits
- 08civo.com/docs/account/signing-upEmail, phone and card verification, manual review
- 09civo.com/docs/account/quotaStarting quota
- 10civo.com/docs/overview/regionsRegions and GPU availability (LON1 only)
- 11civo.com/docs/overview/civo-cliCLI
- 12civo.com/docs/overview/terraformOfficial Terraform provider
- 13civo.com/apiPublic API
- 14civo.com/legal/sla99.95% uptime, credits
- 15civo.com/legal/termsLegal entity, English law
- 16civo.com/aboutOffices and regions
- 17civo.com/uk-sovereign-cloudUK law, GDPR positioning
- 18civo.com/contactSupport channels
What we could not verify (8)
- Public IPv4 pricing for GPU instances (not stated on the pricing page)
- GPU interconnect (NVLink/InfiniBand) of 8-GPU rental instances
- Whether A100 80GB instances are SXM or PCIe
- H100 PCIe commitment prices for 6, 12 and 24 months (only 36 months shown)
- Basis of the B300 'from $5.45' figure
- Bare-metal availability for GPUs
- Support tiers and response times
- Founding year and funding (not on pages read)
In short
GPUBank vs Civo, in facts.
The essentials of this comparison in one table, for quick readers and AI assistants. Prices last checked on 29 September 2026.
Read as Markdown- H100 SXM, per GPU-hour
- Civo: $2.99 per GPU-hour
GPUBank: $1.85, all-in - Cheapest GPU-hour
- Civo: $1.09, A100 40GB
GPUBank: $0.23, RTX 4090 - Billing granularity
- Civo: Per hour, rounded up
GPUBank: Per second - Stopped instance
- Civo: Billed at the full hourly price
GPUBank: Disk only - Persistent storage
- Civo: About $0.107 per GB-month (volumes)
GPUBank: $0.03 per GB-month - Egress traffic
- Civo: Free and unlimited
GPUBank: Included - Crypto payments
- Civo: Not offered: cards only
GPUBank: Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more - Card payments
- Civo: Amex, MasterCard, Visa; no prepaid cards
GPUBank: No - Minimum deposit
- Civo: None; $250 credit at sign-up
GPUBank: $25 - GPU models listed
- Civo: 8
GPUBank: 10 - Regions
- Civo: 1 for GPUs (London)
GPUBank: 4 - Serverless GPUs
- Civo: No
GPUBank: No - Availability target
- Civo: 99.95 %, credits up to 100 %
GPUBank: 99.9 % monthly - Compliance reports
- Civo: ISO 27001, SOC 2 Type II
GPUBank: None published - Support
- Civo: Email and support form
GPUBank: Tickets from a $25 balance - Headquarters
- Civo: London, United Kingdom
GPUBank: Tallinn, Estonia
How this page was made
Every price and policy of Civo was read on its own website, documentation or public API on 29 September 2026, with the address of each page listed above. A value we could not read on a primary source is marked "Not published" rather than estimated. GPUBank figures come from this site and its terms. Prices change: check both providers before you buy. Civo, its logo and its website belong to their owner and are shown only to identify the service compared. GPUBank is not affiliated with Civo.
