Civo
vs
Oracle Cloud
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
- 10 TB of free egress each month
- Same compute and storage prices in every region
- Flexible shapes with CPU and memory sized separately
- Oracle Database inside AWS, Azure and Google Cloud
- Always Free tier with Arm VMs and databases
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Civo | Oracle Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $5.43 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (xSmall) | $3.33 /mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex, 12.5% burstable) | 39% cheaper on Oracle Cloud |
| Medium VM | $43.45 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large) | $44.64 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex) | Within 5% |
| Large VM | $139.05 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU Optimized Small) | $89.28 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (VM.Standard.E4.Flex) | 36% cheaper on Oracle Cloud |
| Block storage | $10.88 /mo 100 GB | $4.25 /mo 100 GB (Balanced) | 61% cheaper on Oracle Cloud |
| Object storage | $10.86 /mo 1 TB | $26.49 /mo 1 TB | 59% cheaper on Civo |
| PostgreSQL | $43.45 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe (Small) | $119.65 /mo 2 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (PostgreSQL.VM.Standard.E5.Flex) | 64% cheaper on Civo |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $27.94 /mo 2 GB RAM (OCI Cache, Valkey) | |
| Load balancer | $10.86 /mo 10,000 concurrent requests | Free Network Load Balancer | Free on Oracle Cloud |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $31.57 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | 10 TB / mo | |
| Egress | Free and unlimited | $8.50 /TB $0.0085 / GB (North America, Europe) |
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 Oracle Cloud offers 15. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Civo | Oracle Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
10 configs · 1 config
|
$2.99 /GPU/hr On-demand | $10.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | 70% cheaper on Civo |
|
B300
4 configs · 1 config
|
$7.49 /GPU/hr On-demand | $15.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | 50% cheaper on Civo |
|
B200
3 configs · 1 config
|
$3.79 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | $14.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Different terms |
|
H200
10 configs · 1 config
|
$3.49 /GPU/hr On-demand | $10.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | 65% cheaper on Civo |
|
A100
40 configs · 2 configs
|
$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.05 /GPU/hr On-demand | 64% cheaper on Civo |
|
L40S
20 configs · 1 config
|
$1.29 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 63% cheaper on Civo |
|
RTX PRO 6000
1 config
|
-- | $4.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
|
GB200
1 config
|
-- | $16.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
MI355X
1 config
|
-- | $8.60 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
|
MI300X
1 config
|
-- | $6.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Oracle Cloud only |
Civo bills on-demand and reserved (6, 12, 24 or 36 months); Oracle Cloud 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 | Oracle Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Yes |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | Yes |
| HIPAA | -- | Yes |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | -- | Yes |
| FedRAMP | -- | High, US Government Cloud |
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 | Oracle Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2015 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | UK | USA |
| Locations | 6 | 45 |
| Example customers | Defense.com, TensorGo, Limitless Technologies, Techdome, KubeNine | Bosch, Uber, Marriott, Telefónica Colombia |
| Website | civo.com | www.oracle.com |
Alternatives to consider
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Our data for Civo was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Oracle Cloud on Oct. 1, 2026.