Civo
vs
Fluidstack
Both rent Nvidia GPUs for AI. Civo sells managed Kubernetes and A100 to B300 instances self-serve at published rates, while Fluidstack contracts whole clusters for AI labs and publishes no rates.
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
- Managed Slurm and Kubernetes clusters on bare metal
- Active and passive cluster health checks with observability
- ClusterMAX Gold rating from SemiAnalysis
- Custom data centers built for a single customer's workload
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Civo | Fluidstack | 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. We track no GPU listings from Fluidstack. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Civo | Fluidstack | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
10 configs
|
$2.49 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Civo only |
|
B300
4 configs
|
$5.49 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Civo only |
|
B200
3 configs
|
$3.79 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Civo only |
|
H200
10 configs
|
$2.99 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Civo only |
|
A100
40 configs
|
$0.69 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Civo only |
|
L40S
20 configs
|
$0.89 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Civo only |
Civo bills on-demand and reserved (6, 12, 24 or 36 months). 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 | Fluidstack |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2015 | 2017 |
| Headquarters | UK | USA |
| Locations | 6 | 4 |
| Example customers | Defense.com, TensorGo, Limitless Technologies, Techdome, KubeNine | -- |
| Website | civo.com | www.fluidstack.io |
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Our data for Civo was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Fluidstack on Sept. 18, 2026.