Civo logo Civo vs EmpirioLabs AI logo EmpirioLabs AI

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
  • Text, image, video, audio and 3D models on one account
  • Niche and research models alongside the mainstream ones
  • OpenAI, Anthropic and Gemini request formats
  • On-demand Nvidia GPUs, from RTX 5090 to B200

Price comparison

Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.

Service Civo EmpirioLabs AI 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 -- Not listed
Object storage $10.86 /mo 1 TB -- Not listed
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 -- Not listed

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 EmpirioLabs AI offers 19. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU Civo EmpirioLabs AI Difference
Nvidia logo H100 10 configs · 6 configs $2.99 /GPU/hr On-demand $2.60 /GPU/hr On-demand 13% cheaper on EmpirioLabs AI
Nvidia logo B300 4 configs · 1 config $7.49 /GPU/hr On-demand $17.00 /GPU/hr On-demand 56% cheaper on Civo
Nvidia logo B200 3 configs · 1 config $3.79 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) $10.40 /GPU/hr On-demand Different terms
Nvidia logo H200 10 configs · 4 configs $3.49 /GPU/hr On-demand $6.00 /GPU/hr On-demand 42% cheaper on Civo
Nvidia logo A100 40 configs · 5 configs $1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand $1.70 /GPU/hr On-demand 36% cheaper on Civo
Nvidia logo L40S 20 configs · 4 configs $1.29 /GPU/hr On-demand $1.80 /GPU/hr On-demand 28% cheaper on Civo
Nvidia logo RTX PRO 6000 4 configs -- $2.40 /GPU/hr On-demand EmpirioLabs AI only
Nvidia logo RTX 5090 2 configs -- $1.10 /GPU/hr On-demand EmpirioLabs AI only
Nvidia logo RTX 4090 2 configs -- $0.75 /GPU/hr On-demand EmpirioLabs AI only
Nvidia logo RTX 3090 1 config -- $0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand EmpirioLabs AI only

Civo bills on-demand and reserved (6, 12, 24 or 36 months); EmpirioLabs AI bills on-demand. 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.

Framework Civo EmpirioLabs AI
SOC 2 Type II --
ISO 27001 Yes --
GDPR Yes --

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 EmpirioLabs AI
Founded 2015 --
Headquarters UK USA
Locations 6 6
Example customers Defense.com, TensorGo, Limitless Technologies, Techdome, KubeNine --
Website civo.com empiriolabs.ai

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Our data for Civo was last updated on Sept. 28, 2026, and for EmpirioLabs AI on Sept. 29, 2026.