Gcore vs Spheron
General-purpose cloud against peer marketplace, 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 40%. Spheron 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
- Peer marketplace A stranger whose machine the platform vets to some degree. Reliability, bandwidth and how long the machine stays online vary by host, not just by price.
- GPU models
- 11 17 offers
- Registered in
- 🇸🇬 Singapore
These are not the same product. A general-purpose cloud and a peer marketplace 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 | Spheron | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA B300 SXM6 288GB | ≈$6.83/hr | $10.37/hr | 34% cheaper on Gcore |
| NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141GB | ≈$3.11/hr | $5.65/hr | 45% cheaper on Gcore |
| NVIDIA L40S 48GB | ≈$1.23/hr | $0.96/hr | 22% cheaper on Spheron |
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 | Spheron | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 minute |
| Minimum commitment | None on pay-as-you-go; subscription terms billed in full | None on dedicated or spot |
| Payment model | Postpaid invoice by default; prepaid credits for some products; subscriptions | Prepaid credits, USD; enterprise invoicing on request |
| Free credits | Free trial periods offered; startup program | not stated |
| Egress | Free | Network bandwidth included in the hourly rate |
| Uptime SLA | not stated | 99.9% |
| Regions | 50+ cloud locations; 33 named on the cloud price list | North America, Europe, Asia Pacific |
Neither site tells you whether a commitment auto-renews or how long you have to dispute a bill. 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 H100 SXM5 80GB≈$2.58/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 4090 24GB$0.48/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB$0.68/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB$0.78/hr
- NVIDIA A100 80GB$1.43/hr
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB$2.35/hr
- NVIDIA GH200 96GB$3.02/hr
Is Gcore cheaper than Spheron?
Gcore is cheaper on 2 of the 3 cards both of them rent, by a median of 40%. Spheron is cheaper on the other 1.
Which GPUs do Gcore and Spheron both rent?
NVIDIA B300 SXM6 288GB, NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141GB, NVIDIA L40S 48GB — 3 in total, on published per-GPU on-demand rates.
What is the cheapest GPU at Gcore and at Spheron?
Of the cards both rent, Gcore starts at $1.23 per GPU-hour and Spheron at $0.96.
Are Gcore and Spheron 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. Spheron is a peer marketplace — a stranger whose machine the platform vets to some degree. Reliability, bandwidth and how long the machine stays online vary by host, not just by price. The rates are comparable; what stands behind them is not.