Civo
vs
OVH
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
- No egress or object storage request fees in most locations
- Bare metal, VPS and public cloud from one provider
- 40+ datacenters across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific
- European-based, may ease GDPR compliance
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Civo | OVH | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $5.43 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (xSmall) | $5.35 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (VPS-1) | Within 5% |
| Medium VM | $43.45 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large) | $10.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VPS-2) | 77% cheaper on OVH |
| Large VM | $139.05 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU Optimized Small) | $27.50 /mo 8 vCPU, 24 GB RAM (VPS-4) | 80% cheaper on OVH |
| Block storage | $10.88 /mo 100 GB | $9.50 /mo 100 GB (High Speed, 3,000 IOPS) | 13% cheaper on OVH |
| Object storage | $10.86 /mo 1 TB | $8.19 /mo 1 TB (Standard, 1-AZ) | 25% cheaper on OVH |
| PostgreSQL | $43.45 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe (Small) | $63.36 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Discovery DB1-4) | 31% cheaper on Civo |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $55.01 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Discovery DB1-4, Valkey) | |
| Load balancer | $10.86 /mo 10,000 concurrent requests | $6.84 /mo 200 Mbps (Load Balancer S) · Node only. A floating IP adds $2.30 / mo. | 37% cheaper on OVH |
| Egress | Free and unlimited | Free and unlimited Billed in Singapore and Sydney |
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 OVH offers 9. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Civo | OVH | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
10 configs · 3 configs
|
$2.99 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.99 /GPU/hr On-demand | Identical |
|
H200
10 configs · 1 config
|
$3.49 /GPU/hr On-demand | $6.20 /GPU/hr On-demand | 44% cheaper on Civo |
|
A100
40 configs · 3 configs
|
$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.07 /GPU/hr On-demand | 64% cheaper on Civo |
|
L40S
20 configs · 3 configs
|
$1.29 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | 28% cheaper on Civo |
|
B300
4 configs
|
$5.49 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Civo only |
|
B200
3 configs
|
$3.79 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Civo only |
|
L4
3 configs
|
-- | $1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | OVH only |
|
V100
3 configs
|
-- | $0.77 /GPU/hr On-demand | OVH only |
|
A10
3 configs
|
-- | $1.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | OVH only |
|
RTX 5000
3 configs
|
-- | $0.60 /GPU/hr On-demand | OVH only |
Civo bills on-demand and reserved (6, 12, 24 or 36 months); OVH 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 | OVH |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | Yes |
| HIPAA | -- | US data centers only |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | -- | Level 1, Hosted Private Cloud only |
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 | OVH |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2015 | 1999 |
| Headquarters | UK | France |
| Locations | 6 | 19 |
| Example customers | Defense.com, TensorGo, Limitless Technologies, Techdome, KubeNine | AnyDesk, Sopra Steria, Floatplane, German Federal Police |
| Website | civo.com | www.ovhcloud.com |
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Our data for Civo was last updated on Sept. 30, 2026, and for OVH on Sept. 30, 2026.