Civo
vs
HIGHRESO
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
- GPUs from A4000 and A100 to H200 and B200
- Four company-owned GPU datacenters across Japan
- Data transfer included in instance pricing
- Japanese-language engineering support
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Civo | HIGHRESO | 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 HIGHRESO offers 4. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Civo | HIGHRESO | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
B200
3 configs · 1 config
|
$3.79 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- On request | |
|
H200
10 configs · 1 config
|
$2.99 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- On request | |
|
A100
40 configs · 4 configs
|
$0.69 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- On request | |
|
H100
10 configs
|
$2.49 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Civo only |
|
B300
4 configs
|
$5.49 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Civo only |
|
L40S
20 configs
|
$0.89 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Civo only |
|
A4000
1 config
|
-- | -- On request | HIGHRESO 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 | HIGHRESO |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2015 | 2007 |
| Headquarters | UK | Japan |
| Locations | 6 | 4 |
| Example customers | Defense.com, TensorGo, Limitless Technologies, Techdome, KubeNine | Senju Pharmaceutical, Nagase & Co., Tohoku University, Kyoto University, Waseda University, NTT PC Communications |
| Website | civo.com | highreso.jp |
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Our data for Civo was last updated on Sept. 27, 2026, and for HIGHRESO on Sept. 18, 2026.