GPUBank vs Gcore
Gcore is a cloud, CDN and security provider from Luxembourg, founded in 2014, that sells GPUs mainly as 8-GPU bare-metal nodes with InfiniBand, plus H100 Virtual GPU VMs and serverless inference. Its H100 SXM costs $2.50 per GPU-hour as the share of a $20.00 8-GPU node; GPUBank charges $1.85 for a single GPU. Gcore offers more regions, a 99.9 % SLA with credits, ISO 27001 and card payment; GPUBank bills by the second, bills only the disk of a stopped instance 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
Gcore
Contern, Luxembourg · since 2014
H100 SXM
$2.50 / h
- Clusters of 250+ nodes with InfiniBand 3.2 Tbit/s set up automatically
- B300 at $6.60 per GPU-hour on an 8-GPU node, GB300 NVL72 by request
- Serverless inference billed per minute, H100 at $1.70 per GPU-hour
Gcore
European cloud
Luxembourg27 points compared27 of their pages readprices last checked on 29 September 2026page updated 2 November 2026
The verdict
Clusters, regions and compliance at Gcore. Lower prices and per-second billing at GPUBank.
Gcore suits teams that train on full 8-GPU H100 or H200 nodes with InfiniBand and need an EU contracting entity, a 99.9 % SLA with credits, ISO 27001 and PCI DSS. For the four GPUs both of us rent, GPUBank costs 17 to 54 % less per GPU-hour, and Gcore's 36-month H100 reservation at $1.93 is still above GPUBank's on-demand rate. Gcore bills per minute, charges bare metal until deletion even when powered off, and bills IPv4 and bare-metal egress on top. Gcore takes cards, PayPal and bank payment; GPUBank takes crypto.
GcoreGPUBank 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 | Gcore per hour | GPUBank per hour | Difference | 100 h at Gcore | 100 h at GPUBank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 H200 SXM141 GB |
$3.00 | $2.49 | −17 % | $300.00 | $249.00 |
 H100 SXM80 GB |
$2.50 | $1.85 | −26 % | $250.00 | $185.00 |
 A100 SXM80 GB |
$1.40 | $0.95 | −32 % | $140.00 | $95.00 |
 L40S48 GB |
$1.20 | $0.55 | −54 % | $120.00 | $55.00 |
Gcore's H100 SXM, H200, A100 and L40S figures are per-GPU shares of 8-GPU bare-metal nodes; the H100 SXM node costs $20.00 per hour. A single H100 Virtual GPU costs $2.60 per hour.
A fine-tune, 40 h on an H100 SXM
Gcore
$100.00
GPUBank
$74.00
Saves $26.00 at GPUBank (−26 %)
An inference box, a month, 720 h, on an L40S
Gcore
$864.00
GPUBank
$396.00
Saves $468.00 at GPUBank (−54 %)
A long-context job, 40 h on an H200
Gcore
$120.00
GPUBank
$99.60
Saves $20.40 at GPUBank (−17 %)
02Their catalogue
Every GPU Gcore lists.
7 GPU models listed by Gcore, each at its lowest public price per GPU-hour. 4 of them are also rented at GPUBank (in blue).
GB300on demandNo price
B300on demand$6.60- H200141 GB · on demand$3.00
- H100 SXM80 GB · on demand$2.50
- A100 SXM 80GB80 GB · on demand$1.40
- L40S48 GB · on demand$1.20
- A2on demand$0.46
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.
Gcore
2 h 14 m 03 s on H100 SXM
- GPU · $2.50 / h
- $5.59
- vCPU and RAM
- Included
- Storage
- $0.055 to $0.242 per GB-month (volumes)
- Egress
- $0.00143 per GB on bare metal
- Public IPv4
- $2.7886 per month per public IP
- Billing granularity
- Per minute
- Minimum charge
- Not published
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.
Gcore
Bare metal billed until deleted, even powered off.
A shelved Virtual GPU stops compute billing; volumes and IPs stay billed and the local disk is wiped.
GPUBank
Only the persistent disk, $0.03 per GB-month. Compute, IPv4 and scratch cost nothing.
04Where the GPUs run
7 countries against 4, and where they are.
Countries where Gcore 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.
Paris
Frankfurt
Ashburn
Singapore
Gcore7
Finland- Luxembourg
Portugal
Singapore
South Korea
United Kingdom
United States
GPUBank4
Paris
Frankfurt- Ashburn
- Singapore
Gcore · 7 countriesGPUBank · 4 regions
05Paying and signing up
How each one takes your money.
Gcore
Payments and sign-up
Payment methods
Cards
Bank transfer
No cryptoMinimum top-up $4 balance to start
To start
- 1Email and password
- 2Card
Billing modelPrepaid or postpaid
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.
| Gcore | GPUBank | |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Not published | Not published |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | Not published |
| HIPAA | Not published | No |
| GDPR DPA | DPA available | Published DPA, applies automatically |
| Availability target | 99.9 % monthly, credits of 5 to 20 % | 99.9 % monthly, per region |
| Status page | status.gcore.com | Public status page |
| Support | Email, chat and phone | 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 Gcore pricing page captured on 29 September 2026, and GPUBank's live board. Cookie banners and chat bubbles are closed; nothing else is edited.
- 1gcore.com/pricing/ai shows prices without an account, in EUR by default with a EUR/USD switch, all excluding VAT.
- 2Bare-metal prices are shown per 8-GPU node per hour with a per-GPU line; B300 and GB300 use Contact sales buttons.
- 3The product page's H100 From EUR 1.64 is the spot per-GPU figure, while the pricing table shows EUR 2.27 on demand.
- 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 aheadGcore aheadEven
| Criterion | GPUBank | Gcore |
|---|---|---|
| Price and catalogue | ||
| H100 SXM, per GPU-hourThe 8-GPU H100 SXM node costs $20.00 per hour. The 36-month reservation is $1.93 per GPU-hour. | $1.85, all-in | $2.50 (share of 8-GPU node), $2.60 (1-GPU VM) |
| Cheapest GPU-hourThe cheapest named GPU is the NVIDIA A2 VM, from about $0.46 per GPU-hour (EUR converted). | $0.23, RTX 4090 | $0.40, Gen 1 VM, GPU model not named |
| GPU models listed | 10 | 7 |
| What the GPU price includes | vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4, traffic | vCPU, RAM, local NVMe; IPv4 and egress extra |
| Billing | ||
| Billing granularity | Per second | Per minute |
| Minimum chargeUsage is metered about every 5 minutes and charged each time it reaches EUR or USD 4. | None | Not published |
| Stopped instanceA shelved Virtual GPU stops compute billing; volumes and IPs stay billed and the local disk is wiped. | Disk only | Bare metal billed until deleted, even powered off |
| Persistent storageStandard volumes cost $0.055 in Sines-2 and Chester, $0.11 in Luxembourg-2 and Manassas. | $0.03 per GB-month | $0.055 to $0.242 per GB-month (volumes) |
| Egress trafficThe GPU Cloud doc says GPU-cluster egress is free, which contradicts the billing doc. VM egress is free. | Included | $0.00143 per GB on bare metal |
| Public IPv4 | Included | $2.7886 per month per public IP |
| Billing model | Prepaid balance | Prepaid or postpaid |
| Payment and sign-up | ||
| Crypto paymentsGcore's payment docs list card, PayPal, bank, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Alipay; no crypto. | Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more | Not offered |
| Card payments | No | Cards, PayPal, bank, Apple Pay, Google PayAhead |
| Minimum deposit | $25 | $4 balance to startAhead |
| Platform | ||
| API and CLI | REST API, CLI, Python SDK | REST API, Python and Go SDKs; no CLI found |
| Terraform | Official provider | Official provider |
| Serverless GPUs | No | Everywhere Inference, billed per minuteAhead |
| Managed Kubernetes | No | Managed KubernetesAhead |
| Ready-made templatesCustom OS images can be uploaded. | 25 | Not published |
| Interruptible or spotGcore spot nodes can be reclaimed with 24 h notice. GPUBank's interruptible H100 SXM costs $1.11. | Yes, 40 % off | Spot bare metal, H100 at $1.80 per GPU-hour |
| GPUs per instance | Up to 8 | 8 per node; clusters of 250+ nodesAhead |
| Multi-node interconnect800 Gbit/s on A100 nodes and 3,600 Gbps on B300 nodes. | Not offered | InfiniBand 3.2 Tbit/s on H100 and H200Ahead |
| Network and regions | ||
| RegionsH100 is sold in 7 regions, H200 only in Chester, A100 only in Luxembourg. | 4 | 10Ahead |
| Countries | France, Germany, US, Singapore | UK, Finland, S. Korea, Luxembourg, US, Portugal, SingaporeAhead |
| EU regions | Paris, Frankfurt | Finland, Luxembourg, Portugal; also the UKAhead |
| Trust and support | ||
| Availability targetGPUBank's terms set a 99.9 % monthly target per region, without published service credits. | 99.9 % monthly | 99.9 % monthly, credits of 5 to 20 %Ahead |
| Compliance reports | None published | ISO 27001, PCI DSS, DPA; SOC 2 not publishedAhead |
| Public status page | Yes | status.gcore.com |
| Support | Tickets from a $25 balance | Email, chat and phoneAhead |
09The right fit
Different needs. A clear choice.
What Gcore does better
- Clusters of 250+ nodes with InfiniBand 3.2 Tbit/s set up automatically
- B300 at $6.60 per GPU-hour on an 8-GPU node, GB300 NVL72 by request
- Serverless inference billed per minute, H100 at $1.70 per GPU-hour
- 10 regions in 7 countries, including the UK, Portugal and South Korea
- 99.9 % SLA with credits, ISO 27001, PCI DSS and a published DPA
Choose GPUBank if
- H100 SXM at $1.85 on one GPU, against $2.50 as a share of an 8-GPU node
- Per-second billing that starts after the health check
- Stop an instance and pay only for its disk; Gcore bills bare metal until deleted
- Pay in Bitcoin, USDT and 12+ other coins, IPv4 and traffic included
- RTX 4090, RTX 5090, RTX PRO 6000 and MI300X, which Gcore does not list
Moving from Gcore takes an afternoon.
Gcore volumes, file shares and object storage persist apart from clusters, but local NVMe is erased on deletion. Bare-metal egress is billed at EUR 0.0013 per GB, so moving a large dataset out has a small cost.
- 1Launch the same GPU on GPUBank with a persistent disk in the region you need.
- 2Copy data from Gcore volumes or local NVMe with rsync before deleting the node.
- 3Run the same Docker image or pick the matching template, then delete the Gcore cluster.
# 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. Gcore lists the H100 SXM at $2.50 per GPU-hour, as the share of a $20.00 per hour 8-GPU bare-metal node. A single H100 Virtual GPU costs $2.60. GPUBank charges $1.85 per GPU-hour for one H100 SXM, with vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4 and traffic included.
Not on bare metal, which is sold as 8-GPU nodes only. A single H100 is available as a Virtual GPU VM at $2.60 per hour, or through Everywhere Inference at $1.70 per hour, billed per minute. GPUBank rents every model from one GPU up to 8 per instance.
No. Gcore lists credit and debit cards, PayPal, bank payment, Apple Pay, Google Pay and Alipay. GPUBank is paid from a USD balance topped up in Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and more than a dozen other coins.
Yes for bare metal. Gcore bills Bare Metal GPU servers from creation until deletion, even when powered off. A shelved Virtual GPU stops compute billing, but its volumes and IPs stay billed. On GPUBank a stopped instance costs only its persistent disk, at $0.03 per GB-month.
Gcore. It sets up InfiniBand at 3.2 Tbit/s on H100 and H200 nodes automatically and supports clusters of 250+ nodes, backed by a 99.9 % SLA with service credits. GPUBank rents up to 8 GPUs per instance and does not sell InfiniBand clusters.
Without. Every price on this page excludes VAT and sales tax, for Gcore 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 Gcore was read on its own pages or official documentation. Prices last checked on 29 September 2026.
- 01gcore.com/gpu-cloudFrom-prices, features, FAQ
- 02gcore.com/pricing/aiBare-metal on-demand, Everywhere Inference and Virtual GPU prices, GPU calculator
- 03gcore.com/assets/cached/api/en/pricing-pages/ai_pLevel-4.e5aea57a.jsonUSD figures, Spot and Reserve 12/36 month tabs
- 04bff.gcore.pro/cloud/ai-item-pricePer-region node prices, GPU region list and flavors (with /cloud/regions?type=ai, /cloud/ai-items)
- 05bff.gcore.pro/cloud/volume-priceVolume, IPv4 (/cloud/ip-address-price) and bare-metal egress (/cloud/traffic-price) prices
- 06gcore.com/pricing/cloudGPU VM instances (A2, Gen 1), object storage
- 07docs.gcore.com/edge-ai/ai-infrastructure/about-gpu-cloudCluster types, configurations, storage, egress statement
- 08docs.gcore.com/edge-ai/ai-infrastructure/spot-bare-metal-gpuSpot reclaim policy, per-minute billing aggregated hourly
- 09docs.gcore.com/edge-ai/ai-infrastructure/create-a-virtual-gpu-clusterVirtual GPU storage, shelving, provisioning time
- 10docs.gcore.com/edge-ai/ai-infrastructure/create-a-bare-metal-gpu-clusterRegion grouping, file shares, API/Terraform
- 11docs.gcore.com/edge-ai/billingGPU billing rules, inference per minute
- 12docs.gcore.com/cloud/billingPAYG per minute, EUR 4 minimum, stopped-instance rules, egress
- 13docs.gcore.com/account-settings/billing/overviewThreshold billing
- 14docs.gcore.com/account-settings/billing/paymentsPayment methods, card verification hold, top-ups
- 15docs.gcore.com/account-settings/account/create-accountSign-up requirements
- 16docs.gcore.com/account-settings/billing/trial-conditionsNo Cloud AI trial
- 17docs.gcore.com/account-settings/billing/data-deletionRetention after suspension
- 18docs.gcore.com/cloud/bandwidth-and-trafficVM egress free, bare-metal egress billed
What we could not verify (10)
- Spot and Reserve tab values come from the pricing page's content data served by gcore.com; the tabs themselves were not visible in the rendered text
- Spot discount per region and the minimum balance for spot: the docs point to a billing page that was not found
- File share (VAST) price per GB in GPU regions not found in the pages read
- GPU model of Cloud VM 'GPU Instances (Gen 1)' not named; VRAM of A2 instances not stated; per-region availability of these VMs not listed
- H100/A100 form factor for Virtual GPU and Everywhere Inference not stated, so those rows use model 'other'
- Everywhere Inference regions and whether custom Docker containers are accepted not verified on a primary page read
- SOC 2 and HIPAA status not stated on the pages read (a Trust Center is referenced but was not read)
- No CLI for Cloud/GPU found in the docs read (only FastEdge CLI appears in the docs navigation)
- Funding and ownership not published on the pages read
- B300 VRAM per GPU given only as 2,304 GB per 8-GPU node; B300 and GB300 regions not listed
In short
GPUBank vs Gcore, 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
- Gcore: $2.50 (share of 8-GPU node), $2.60 (1-GPU VM)
GPUBank: $1.85, all-in - Cheapest GPU-hour
- Gcore: $0.40, Gen 1 VM, GPU model not named
GPUBank: $0.23, RTX 4090 - Billing granularity
- Gcore: Per minute
GPUBank: Per second - Stopped instance
- Gcore: Bare metal billed until deleted, even powered off
GPUBank: Disk only - Persistent storage
- Gcore: $0.055 to $0.242 per GB-month (volumes)
GPUBank: $0.03 per GB-month - Egress traffic
- Gcore: $0.00143 per GB on bare metal
GPUBank: Included - Crypto payments
- Gcore: Not offered
GPUBank: Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more - Card payments
- Gcore: Cards, PayPal, bank, Apple Pay, Google Pay
GPUBank: No - Minimum deposit
- Gcore: $4 balance to start
GPUBank: $25 - GPU models listed
- Gcore: 7
GPUBank: 10 - Regions
- Gcore: 10
GPUBank: 4 - Serverless GPUs
- Gcore: Everywhere Inference, billed per minute
GPUBank: No - Availability target
- Gcore: 99.9 % monthly, credits of 5 to 20 %
GPUBank: 99.9 % monthly - Compliance reports
- Gcore: ISO 27001, PCI DSS, DPA; SOC 2 not published
GPUBank: None published - Support
- Gcore: Email, chat and phone
GPUBank: Tickets from a $25 balance - Headquarters
- Gcore: Contern, Luxembourg
GPUBank: Tallinn, Estonia
How this page was made
Every price and policy of Gcore 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. Gcore, its logo and its website belong to their owner and are shown only to identify the service compared. GPUBank is not affiliated with Gcore.
