Civo
vs
Hugging Face
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
- Hub hosts 3M+ public models and 500k+ datasets
- Free hosting for public models, datasets and demos
- AI models and datasets can be mounted directly into a job
- Single GPUs up to 8x H200 or RTX PRO 6000
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Civo | Hugging Face | 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 | $18.00 /mo 1 TB (private) | 40% 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 allowance | -- Not listed | 8x the amount of data stored | |
| Egress | Free and unlimited | Included within the allowance |
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 Hugging Face offers 7. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Civo | Hugging Face | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H200
10 configs · 4 configs
|
$3.49 /GPU/hr On-demand | $5.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | 30% cheaper on Civo |
|
A100
40 configs · 3 configs
|
$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 56% cheaper on Civo |
|
L40S
20 configs · 3 configs
|
$1.29 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | 28% cheaper on Civo |
|
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 |
|
RTX PRO 6000
4 configs
|
-- | $2.75 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hugging Face only |
|
L4
2 configs
|
-- | $0.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hugging Face only |
|
T4
2 configs
|
-- | $0.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hugging Face only |
|
A10G
4 configs
|
-- | $1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hugging Face only |
Civo bills on-demand and reserved (6, 12, 24 or 36 months); Hugging Face 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.
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 | Hugging Face |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2015 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | UK | USA |
| Locations | 6 | -- |
| Example customers | Defense.com, TensorGo, Limitless Technologies, Techdome, KubeNine | Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Grammarly, Ai2 |
| Website | civo.com | huggingface.co |
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Our data for Civo was last updated on Sept. 24, 2026, and for Hugging Face on Sept. 24, 2026.