Civo
vs
Lium
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
- Competitive pricing, billed per minute with no hourly minimum
- Rent a single GPU or a full 8-GPU node
- Wide range of GPU models, including H100, H200 and RTX PRO 6000
- CLI, Python SDK and an agent skill for coding agents
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Civo | Lium | 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 Lium offers 13. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Civo | Lium | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
10 configs · 6 configs
|
$2.99 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.30 /GPU/hr On-demand | 57% cheaper on Lium |
|
B300
4 configs · 3 configs
|
$7.49 /GPU/hr On-demand | $9.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 21% cheaper on Civo |
|
B200
3 configs · 3 configs
|
$3.79 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | $5.44 /GPU/hr On-demand | Different terms |
|
H200
10 configs · 2 configs
|
$3.49 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | 14% cheaper on Lium |
|
A100
40 configs · 1 config
|
$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.18 /GPU/hr On-demand | 8% cheaper on Civo |
|
L40S
20 configs · 1 config
|
$1.29 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.38 /GPU/hr On-demand | 71% cheaper on Lium |
|
RTX PRO 6000
5 configs
|
-- | $1.10 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
|
RTX 5090
9 configs
|
-- | $0.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
|
RTX 4090
5 configs
|
-- | $0.44 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
|
RTX 3090
4 configs
|
-- | $0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lium only |
Civo bills on-demand and reserved (6, 12, 24 or 36 months); Lium 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
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Our data for Civo was last updated on Sept. 28, 2026, and for Lium on Sept. 28, 2026.