Civo
vs
CoreWeave
What's good about each
- Free egress and ingress
- Kubernetes control plane at no cost
- Deploy to locations in Europe and Asia
- GPUs from L40S to B300, reservable for up to 36 months
- API serving open models from the UK
- Nvidia nodes from A100 up to GB300 NVL72 racks
- Bare-metal nodes under a managed Kubernetes control plane
- No charge for the Kubernetes control plane or Slurm
- Free egress and no object storage request fees
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Civo | CoreWeave | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $5.43 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (xSmall) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $43.45 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $139.05 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU Optimized Small) | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $10.88 /mo 100 GB | $7.00 /mo 100 GB (Distributed File Storage) | 36% cheaper on CoreWeave |
| Object storage | $10.86 /mo 1 TB | $61.44 /mo 1 TB (Hot) | 82% cheaper on Civo |
| PostgreSQL | $43.45 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe (Small) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $10.86 /mo 10,000 concurrent requests | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | Free and unlimited | Free and unlimited |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
Civo offers 6 GPU models, while CoreWeave offers 11. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Civo | CoreWeave | Difference |
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$2.99 /GPU/hr On-demand | $6.16 /GPU/hr On-demand | 51% cheaper on Civo |
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$5.49 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | $4.48 /GPU/hr Spot | Different terms |
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$3.79 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | $4.26 /GPU/hr Spot | Different terms |
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$3.49 /GPU/hr On-demand | $6.30 /GPU/hr On-demand | 45% cheaper on Civo |
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$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.70 /GPU/hr On-demand | 60% cheaper on Civo |
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$1.29 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.25 /GPU/hr On-demand | 43% cheaper on Civo |
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-- | $1.20 /GPU/hr Spot | CoreWeave only |
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-- | $10.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | CoreWeave only |
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-- | -- On request | CoreWeave only |
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-- | $6.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | CoreWeave only |
Civo bills on-demand and reserved (6, 12, 24 or 36 months); CoreWeave bills on-demand and spot. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | Civo | CoreWeave |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2015 | 2017 |
| Headquarters | UK | USA |
| Locations | 6 | 55 |
| Example customers | Defense.com, TensorGo, Limitless Technologies, Techdome, KubeNine | OpenAI, Cohere, Mistral AI, NovelAI |
| Website | civo.com | coreweave.com |
Alternatives to consider
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Our data for Civo was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for CoreWeave on Oct. 1, 2026.