Gcore vs GPU.ai
General-purpose cloud against GPU specialist, priced against each other on the 3 GPUs both of them rent. Published per-GPU on-demand rates as each provider last stated them, with what their own pages say about billing, commitment and egress beside the numbers.
Gcore is cheaper on 2 of the 3 cards both of them rent, by a median of 20%. GPU.ai is cheaper on the other 1.
- How they sell
- General-purpose cloud A hosting company where GPUs sit beside the VPS products, on the same account and billing.
- GPU models
- 6 9 offers
- Registered in
- 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
- How they sell
- GPU specialist An operator whose whole business is renting these cards.
- GPU models
- 15 17 offers
- Registered in
- 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
These are not the same product. A general-purpose cloud and a GPU specialist differ in who your counterparty is, which is why the rates below can be far apart without either being wrong. The prices are comparable; what stands behind them is not.
The 3 cards both of them rent, cheapest published per-GPU on-demand rate each. Dearest first.
| GPU | Gcore | GPU.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141GB | ≈$3.11/hr | $3.59/hr | 13% cheaper on Gcore |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | ≈$2.58/hr | $3.49/hr | 26% cheaper on Gcore |
| NVIDIA L40S 48GB | ≈$1.23/hr | $0.80/hr | 35% cheaper on GPU.ai |
Per GPU per hour, on-demand list prices as each provider last published them. Rates exclude tax and vary by region; a cheaper rate is not the same machine, the same network or the same support.
| Gcore | GPU.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing granularityOn short jobs this outweighs the rate: an hour minimum on a 90-second run costs more than a 30% dearer per-second rate. | Hourly (GPU); per minute (inference) | Per second |
| Minimum commitment | None on pay-as-you-go; subscription terms billed in full | $5 minimum deposit, no term |
| Payment model | Postpaid invoice by default; prepaid credits for some products; subscriptions | Prepaid credit balance with burn rate and runway |
| Free credits | Free trial periods offered; startup program | not stated |
| Egress | Free | not stated |
| Regions | 50+ cloud locations; 33 named on the cloud price list | 8 regions: US East/Central/West, Canada, EU West, EU East, India South, Asia-Pacific |
Neither site tells you whether your data trains their models, an uptime SLA, how fast support answers or whether a commitment auto-renews. We looked on both and record the absence rather than filling it in — if you need any of it, ask before you commit.
- NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB≈$1.45/hr
- NVIDIA B300 SXM6 288GB≈$6.83/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada 16GB$0.24/hr
- NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB$0.40/hr
- NVIDIA L4 24GB$0.44/hr
- NVIDIA A40 48GB$0.49/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB$0.65/hr
- NVIDIA L40 48GB$0.78/hr
- NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40GB$0.89/hr
- NVIDIA A100 80GB$1.07/hr
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB$1.99/hr
- NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB$2.48/hr
- NVIDIA H100 NVL 94GB$3.19/hr
- NVIDIA H200 NVL 141GB$3.29/hr
Is Gcore cheaper than GPU.ai?
Gcore is cheaper on 2 of the 3 cards both of them rent, by a median of 20%. GPU.ai is cheaper on the other 1.
Which GPUs do Gcore and GPU.ai both rent?
NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141GB, NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB, NVIDIA L40S 48GB — 3 in total, on published per-GPU on-demand rates.
What is the cheapest GPU at Gcore and at GPU.ai?
Of the cards both rent, Gcore starts at $1.23 per GPU-hour and GPU.ai at $0.80.
Are Gcore and GPU.ai the same kind of provider?
No. Gcore is a general-purpose cloud — a hosting company where GPUs sit beside the VPS products, on the same account and billing. GPU.ai is a GPU specialist — an operator whose whole business is renting these cards. The rates are comparable; what stands behind them is not.