Fluidstack
vs
Gcore
What's good about each
- Managed Slurm and Kubernetes clusters on bare metal
- Active and passive cluster health checks with observability
- ClusterMAX Gold rating from SemiAnalysis
- Custom data centers built for a single customer's workload
- Competitive pricing with pay-as-you-go model
- Over 210 global PoPs across six continents
- Free DDoS protection, WAF, and egress traffic
- Offers NVIDIA GPUs such as A100, H100, and L40S
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Fluidstack | Gcore | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $17.60 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (g1-standard-1-2) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $70.49 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (g1-standard-4-8) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $141.06 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (g1-standard-8-16) | |
| Object storage | -- Not listed | $47.24 /mo 1 TB, 250k write requests | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | $17.60 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (lb1-1-2) | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $7.65 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms (Darmstadt) | |
| Egress | -- Not listed | Free for most services Server egress is free. CDN includes 1 TB, then €0.030/GB |
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
Gcore offers 6 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Fluidstack. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Fluidstack | Gcore | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
9 configs
|
-- | $1.77 /GPU/hr On-demand | Gcore only |
|
B300
1 config
|
-- | $6.96 /GPU/hr On-demand | Gcore only |
|
H200
1 config
|
-- | $3.17 /GPU/hr On-demand | Gcore only |
|
A100
5 configs
|
-- | $1.46 /GPU/hr On-demand | Gcore only |
|
L40S
4 configs
|
-- | $1.25 /GPU/hr On-demand | Gcore only |
|
GB300
1 config
|
-- | -- On request | Gcore only |
Gcore bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Company details
| Fact | Fluidstack | Gcore |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2017 | 2014 |
| Headquarters | USA | Luxembourg |
| Locations | 4 | 53 |
| Example customers | -- | Xsolla, jsDelivr, Orange, Avast |
| Website | www.fluidstack.io | gcore.com |
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Our data for Fluidstack was last updated on Aug. 31, 2026, and for Gcore on Aug. 31, 2026.