GPUBank vs UpCloud
UpCloud is a Finnish IaaS provider, UpCloud Oy of Helsinki, with 15 locations; its GPU Servers (L4, L40S, RTX PRO 6000, H100, B200, B300) run only in fi-hel2, Helsinki. Its H100 SXM costs $1.89 per GPU-hour on its USD page, excluding VAT and with storage and IPv4 on top, and it has announced EUR 2.17 from 20 October 2026; GPUBank charges $1.85 all-in. UpCloud offers a 99.999 % SLA, managed Kubernetes and card payments; GPUBank bills by the second, runs four GPU 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
UpCloud
Helsinki, Finland
H100 SXM
$1.89 / h
- 99.999 % SLA on GPU plans, with credits of 50x the fees
- ISO 27001, CISPE Code of Conduct and PiTuKri audit
- Managed Kubernetes with GPU node groups, full IaaS stack
UpCloud
European cloud
Finland29 points compared35 of their pages readprices last checked on 29 September 2026page updated 2 November 2026
The verdict
SLA, certifications and a full IaaS stack at UpCloud. Per-second billing, four regions and lower prices at GPUBank.
UpCloud suits European teams that want GPU VMs under Finnish jurisdiction next to managed Kubernetes, databases and object storage, with a 99.999 % SLA and ISO 27001. On the H100 SXM the prices are close today, $1.89 against $1.85, and GPUBank costs 20 to 54 % less on the B200, RTX PRO 6000 and L40S. UpCloud bills GPU plans by the started hour and charges storage and IPv4 separately, even while a server is stopped. It takes cards, PayPal and mobile wallets from a EUR 10 minimum; GPUBank takes crypto and runs GPUs in four regions where UpCloud has one.
UpCloudGPUBank 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 | UpCloud per hour | GPUBank per hour | Difference | 100 h at UpCloud | 100 h at GPUBank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 B200 SXM180 GB |
$5.20 | $4.15 | −20 % | $520.00 | $415.00 |
 H100 SXM80 GB |
$1.89 | $1.85 | −2 % | $189.00 | $185.00 |
 RTX PRO 600096 GB |
$1.88 | $1.15 | −39 % | $188.00 | $115.00 |
 L40S48 GB |
$1.19 | $0.55 | −54 % | $119.00 | $55.00 |
UpCloud prices are per server-hour on its USD page, excluding VAT, with block storage and IPv4 billed on top. The L40S figure is the 2-GPU plan per GPU; a single L40S costs $1.27.
A fine-tune, 40 h on an H100 SXM
UpCloud
$75.60
GPUBank
$74.00
Saves $1.60 at GPUBank (−2 %)
An inference box, a month, 720 h, on an L40S
UpCloud
$856.80
GPUBank
$396.00
Saves $460.80 at GPUBank (−54 %)
A full day, 24 h on a B200
UpCloud
$124.80
GPUBank
$99.60
Saves $25.20 at GPUBank (−20 %)
02Their catalogue
Every GPU UpCloud lists.
7 GPU models listed by UpCloud, each at its lowest public price per GPU-hour. 5 of them are also rented at GPUBank (in blue).
- B300288 GB · on demand$7.67
- B200192 GB · on demand$5.20
H200141 GB · reservedNo price- H100 SXM80 GB · on demand$1.89
- L40S48 GB · on demand$1.19
L424 GB · on demand$0.69- RTX PRO 600096 GB · on demand$1.88
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.
UpCloud
2 h 14 m 03 s on H100 SXM
- GPU · $1.89 / h
- $4.22
- vCPU and RAM
- Included
- Storage
- $0.25 per GB-month MaxIOPS, $0.097 Standard
- Egress
- Included within a Fair Transfer Limit
- Public IPv4
- $3.85 per month per public IPv4
- Billing granularity
- Per started hour
- Minimum charge
- 1 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.
UpCloud
GPU plan stops; storage and IPv4 billed.
GPUBank bills only the disk at $0.03 per GB-month; IPv4 is included.
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 UpCloud 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.
Finland
Paris
Frankfurt
Ashburn
Singapore
UpCloud1
- Finland
GPUBank4
Paris
Frankfurt
Ashburn
Singapore
UpCloud · 1 countryGPUBank · 4 regions
05Paying and signing up
How each one takes your money.
UpCloud
Payments and sign-up
Payment methods
Cards
No cryptoMinimum top-up EUR 10 one-time payment
To start
- 1Name
- 2Email
- 3Phone
- 4Billing address
- 5Card
Billing modelPrepaid credits; post-pay in the Terms
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.
| UpCloud | 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 | 99.999 %, credits of 50x the fees | 99.9 % monthly, per region |
| Status page | status.upcloud.com | Public status page |
| Support | 24/7 live chat and email | 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 UpCloud 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 has a EUR and USD toggle, and GPU tables show a Spot Price and a Price column per server-hour and per month.
- 2H100 and B200 blocks carry a banner announcing new pricing from October 20th, and the product page already shows the higher EUR prices.
- 3The product page lists the B300 as 'Coming soon', while the pricing page already shows B300 prices.
- 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
29 points, read off both sites.
GPUBank aheadUpCloud aheadEven
| Criterion | GPUBank | UpCloud |
|---|---|---|
| Price and catalogue | ||
| H100 SXM, per GPU-hourUpCloud announces EUR 2.17 per GPU-hour on demand from 20 Oct 2026. | $1.85, all-in | $1.89, 1 to 8 GPUs, excl. VAT |
| Cheapest GPU-hour | $0.23, RTX 4090 | $0.69, L4, excl. VAT |
| GPU models listedH200 is offered only as a quote-based Private Cloud node. | 10 | 7 |
| What the GPU price includesGPU plans include no storage, so at least one block volume is required. | vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4, traffic | vCPU, RAM; block storage and IPv4 extra |
| Billing | ||
| Billing granularity | Per second | Per started hour |
| Minimum charge | None | 1 hour |
| Stopped instanceGPUBank bills only the disk at $0.03 per GB-month; IPv4 is included. | Disk only | GPU plan stops; storage and IPv4 billed |
| Persistent storage | $0.03 per GB-month | $0.25 per GB-month MaxIOPS, $0.097 Standard |
| Egress trafficAbove the limit, bandwidth may be throttled to 100 Mbit/s. | Included | Included within a Fair Transfer Limit |
| Public IPv4 | Included | $3.85 per month per public IPv4 |
| Billing model | Prepaid balance | Prepaid credits; post-pay in the Terms |
| Payment and sign-up | ||
| Crypto payments | Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more | No |
| Card payments | No | Cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google PayAhead |
| Minimum deposit | $25 | EUR 10 one-time paymentAhead |
| Platform | ||
| API and CLI | REST API, CLI, Python SDK | REST API, upctl CLI, Go, Python, PHP SDKs |
| Terraform | Official provider | Official provider |
| Serverless GPUs | No | No |
| Managed Kubernetes | No | Managed, with GPU node groupsAhead |
| Ready-made templates | 25 | AI/ML GPU Ubuntu template, OS templates |
| Interruptible or spotH100 spot is $1.88 per GPU-hour; GPUBank's interruptible H100 SXM is $1.11. | Yes, 40 % off | Spot prices on all six models |
| GPUs per instance | Up to 8 | Up to 8; clusters via sales from Dec 2026 |
| Multi-node interconnect | Not offered | NVLink 900 GB/s (H100), 1.8 TB/s (B200)Ahead |
| Network and regions | ||
| RegionsUpCloud has 15 locations in total, but GPU Servers run only in Helsinki. | 4 | 1 GPU location, fi-hel2 |
| Countries | France, Germany, US, Singapore | Finland |
| EU regions | Paris, Frankfurt | Helsinki |
| Trust and support | ||
| Availability targetSpot instances are excluded. | 99.9 % monthly | 99.999 %, credits of 50x the feesAhead |
| Compliance reports | None published | ISO 27001, CISPE, PiTuKri; no SOC 2Ahead |
| Public status page | Yes | status.upcloud.com |
| Support | Tickets from a $25 balance | 24/7 live chat and emailAhead |
09The right fit
Different needs. A clear choice.
What UpCloud does better
- 99.999 % SLA on GPU plans, with credits of 50x the fees
- ISO 27001, CISPE Code of Conduct and PiTuKri audit
- Managed Kubernetes with GPU node groups, full IaaS stack
- Cards, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay, from a EUR 10 payment
- B300 plans and NVLink up to 8 GPUs, 24/7 live chat
Choose GPUBank if
- Per-second billing, where UpCloud bills by the started hour
- IPv4 and local NVMe included; UpCloud adds $3.85 per IPv4 a month
- B200 at $4.15 against $5.20, L40S at $0.55 against $1.19 to $1.27
- GPUs in Paris, Frankfurt, Ashburn and Singapore, not Helsinki only
- Pay in Bitcoin, USDT and 12+ other coins, no card or phone
Moving from UpCloud takes an afternoon.
UpCloud GPU Servers are standard VMs with free egress within the Fair Transfer Limit, so data can be copied out directly. Configuration is covered by the API, Terraform and upctl.
- 1Launch the same GPU on GPUBank in Frankfurt or Paris with a persistent disk.
- 2Copy block storage data with rsync, and object storage buckets with rclone.
- 3Run your Docker images or pick a template, then delete UpCloud volumes and IPv4 addresses.
# 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.
Slightly today. UpCloud lists the H100 SXM at $1.89 per GPU-hour excluding VAT, with block storage and IPv4 billed on top; GPUBank charges $1.85 with vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4 and traffic included. UpCloud has announced EUR 2.17 per GPU-hour on demand from 20 October 2026.
UpCloud bills GPU plans by the started hour. When a server is stopped the plan is not billed, but block storage and public IPv4 addresses keep billing. GPUBank bills per second and, on a stopped instance, charges only the persistent disk at $0.03 per GB-month.
No. UpCloud accepts Visa, MasterCard, Amex, Discover, Maestro, PayPal, Apple Pay and Google Pay, and asks for a phone number and billing address at sign-up. GPUBank is paid from a USD balance topped up in Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and more than a dozen other coins.
All UpCloud GPU Servers run in fi-hel2, a Telia data center in Helsinki, although the platform has 15 locations. GPUBank runs GPUs in Paris, Frankfurt, Ashburn and Singapore.
UpCloud. It lists a 99.999 % SLA on every GPU plan with credits of 50x the fees for outages longer than 5 minutes, and holds ISO 27001, the CISPE Code of Conduct and a PiTuKri audit. GPUBank sets a 99.9 % monthly target per region and publishes no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 report.
Without. Every price on this page excludes VAT and sales tax, for UpCloud 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 UpCloud was read on its own pages or official documentation. Prices last checked on 29 September 2026.
- 01upcloud.com/global/pricing/GPU prices USD, storage, IPv4, file/object storage
- 02upcloud.com/pricing/GPU prices EUR originals, billing FAQ, currencies, refunds
- 03upcloud.com/products/gpu-servers/Announced prices from 20 Oct 2026, spot, reserved from 3 months, clusters, B300 coming soon, GPU specs
- 04upcloud.com/docs/products/gpu-servers/configurations/Plans, CPU models, VRAM, NVLink, stopped-server billing, trial exclusion
- 05upcloud.com/docs/products/gpu-servers/availability/fi-hel2 only, GPU quota, promotional credit rule
- 06upcloud.com/docs/products/gpu-servers/spot/Spot mechanics, billing, SLA exemption
- 07upcloud.com/docs/products/gpu-servers/faq/Stopped billing, passthrough, Docker, spot refunds
- 08upcloud.com/docs/products/gpu-servers/storage/Storage tiers, moving volumes
- 09upcloud.com/docs/products/gpu-servers/software/Templates, custom images
- 10upcloud.com/docs/changelog/2026-07-06-gpu-spot-pricing/Spot launch for L40S and B200
- 11upcloud.com/docs/changelog/2026-05-18-h100-b200-gpus/Launch dates, NVLink
- 12upcloud.com/docs/changelog/2026-09-16-rtx-pro-6000-gpus/Launch date
- 13upcloud.com/docs/changelog/2026-08-18-change-gpu-model-and-plan/GPU plan change without reinstall
- 14upcloud.com/docs/products/managed-kubernetes/gpu-nodes/Managed Kubernetes GPU node groups
- 15upcloud.com/docs/getting-started/billing/payment-methods/Cards, PayPal, Apple/Google Pay
- 16upcloud.com/docs/getting-started/billing/Card and billing address at signup, verification
- 17upcloud.com/docs/getting-started/accounts/account-requirements/Name, email, phone, card, sanctions checks
- 18upcloud.com/docs/getting-started/accounts/account-balance/Hourly deduction, run-out policy, refunds
What we could not verify (11)
- upcloud.com marketing pages (pricing, GPU product, compliance, data centres, terms) returned a Cloudflare challenge (403) to fetch_page.py; their server HTML was fetched with curl (Chrome user agent) and saved as raw/curl-*.html with tag-stripped raw/curl-*.txt; every price was read from those files
- Public API endpoints /1.3/price, /1.3/plan and /1.3/zone require authentication, so API price lists could not be cross-checked
- USD figures for the announced 20 Oct 2026 H100/B200 pricing: only the EUR product page was served
- Reserved (3+ month) GPU pricing and discounts: contact sales only
- Private Cloud GPU (L4, L40S, H200, B200) and Dedicated GPU Cluster prices: quote only
- GPU quota per new account: "based on account history", no numbers
- Founding year and funding not published on the pages read
- Jupyter support not documented
- Free trial length conflicts: docs say 7 days, USD pricing page says 30-day free trial; pricing FAQ says the amount changes
- Post-pay billing thresholds referenced in the Terms of Service were not found on the pages read
- Bank transfer / invoice payment not listed on the payment methods page
In short
GPUBank vs UpCloud, 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
- UpCloud: $1.89, 1 to 8 GPUs, excl. VAT
GPUBank: $1.85, all-in - Cheapest GPU-hour
- UpCloud: $0.69, L4, excl. VAT
GPUBank: $0.23, RTX 4090 - Billing granularity
- UpCloud: Per started hour
GPUBank: Per second - Stopped instance
- UpCloud: GPU plan stops; storage and IPv4 billed
GPUBank: Disk only - Persistent storage
- UpCloud: $0.25 per GB-month MaxIOPS, $0.097 Standard
GPUBank: $0.03 per GB-month - Egress traffic
- UpCloud: Included within a Fair Transfer Limit
GPUBank: Included - Crypto payments
- UpCloud: No
GPUBank: Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more - Card payments
- UpCloud: Cards, PayPal, Apple Pay, Google Pay
GPUBank: No - Minimum deposit
- UpCloud: EUR 10 one-time payment
GPUBank: $25 - GPU models listed
- UpCloud: 7
GPUBank: 10 - Regions
- UpCloud: 1 GPU location, fi-hel2
GPUBank: 4 - Serverless GPUs
- UpCloud: No
GPUBank: No - Availability target
- UpCloud: 99.999 %, credits of 50x the fees
GPUBank: 99.9 % monthly - Compliance reports
- UpCloud: ISO 27001, CISPE, PiTuKri; no SOC 2
GPUBank: None published - Support
- UpCloud: 24/7 live chat and email
GPUBank: Tickets from a $25 balance - Headquarters
- UpCloud: Helsinki, Finland
GPUBank: Tallinn, Estonia
How this page was made
Every price and policy of UpCloud 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. UpCloud, its logo and its website belong to their owner and are shown only to identify the service compared. GPUBank is not affiliated with UpCloud.
