CoreWeave
vs
Gcore
What's good about each
- Nvidia nodes from A100 up to GB300 NVL72 racks
- Bare-metal nodes under a managed Kubernetes control plane
- No charge for the Kubernetes control plane or Slurm
- Free egress and no object storage request fees
- Cloud regions on six continents
- Free egress from virtual machines and bare metal
- Per-minute billing, only while a VM runs
- Nvidia GPUs from L40S up to GB300 NVL72 racks
- CDN and DDoS protection on the same account
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | CoreWeave | Gcore | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $11.72 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (g3a-standard-1-2) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $46.91 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (g3a-standard-4-8) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $93.83 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (g3a-standard-8-16) | |
| Block storage | $7.00 /mo 100 GB (Distributed File Storage) | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $61.44 /mo 1 TB (Hot) | $52.26 /mo 1 TB (Standard) | 15% cheaper on Gcore |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | $17.15 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (lb1-1-2) | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $7.46 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms (Darmstadt) | |
| Egress | Free and unlimited | Free from VMs, billed from Object Storage |
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
CoreWeave offers 11 GPU models, while Gcore offers 6. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | CoreWeave | Gcore | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
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$6.16 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.73 /GPU/hr On-demand | 72% cheaper on Gcore |
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$4.48 /GPU/hr Spot | $6.78 /GPU/hr On-demand | Different terms |
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$6.30 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.08 /GPU/hr On-demand | 51% cheaper on Gcore |
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$2.70 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.42 /GPU/hr On-demand | 47% cheaper on Gcore |
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-- On request | -- On request | |
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$2.25 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.22 /GPU/hr On-demand | 46% cheaper on Gcore |
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$4.26 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | CoreWeave only |
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$1.20 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | CoreWeave only |
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$10.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | CoreWeave only |
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$6.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | CoreWeave only |
CoreWeave bills on-demand and spot; Gcore 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 | CoreWeave | Gcore |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2017 | 2014 |
| Headquarters | USA | Luxembourg |
| Locations | 55 | 33 |
| Example customers | OpenAI, Cohere, Mistral AI, NovelAI | Microsoft, ProSieben, Higgsfield, Leonardo AI, Funcom |
| Website | coreweave.com | gcore.com |
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Our data for CoreWeave was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Gcore on Sept. 18, 2026.