Gcore
vs
HIGHRESO
Both rent A100 and H200 GPUs. Gcore adds H100 to GB300 nodes, a CDN, VPS and managed Kubernetes on six continents, while HIGHRESO rents B200 nodes from datacenters it runs itself in Japan.
What's good about each
- 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
- GPUs from A4000 and A100 to H200 and B200
- Four company-owned GPU datacenters across Japan
- Data transfer included in instance pricing
- Japanese-language engineering support
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Gcore | HIGHRESO | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $11.82 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (g3a-standard-1-2) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $47.35 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (g3a-standard-4-8) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $94.70 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (g3a-standard-8-16) | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $52.75 /mo 1 TB (Standard) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $17.31 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (lb1-1-2) | -- Not listed | |
| Serverless | $7.53 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms (Darmstadt) | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | Free from VMs, billed from Object Storage | -- 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
Gcore offers 6 GPU models, while HIGHRESO offers 4. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Gcore | HIGHRESO | Difference |
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$3.11 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- On request | |
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$1.44 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- On request | |
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$1.74 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Gcore only |
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$6.84 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Gcore only |
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-- On request | -- | Gcore only |
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$1.23 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Gcore only |
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-- | -- On request | HIGHRESO only |
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-- | -- On request | HIGHRESO only |
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 | Gcore | HIGHRESO |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2014 | 2007 |
| Headquarters | Luxembourg | Japan |
| Locations | 33 | 4 |
| Example customers | Microsoft, ProSieben, Higgsfield, Leonardo AI, Funcom | Senju Pharmaceutical, Nagase & Co., Tohoku University, Kyoto University, Waseda University, NTT PC Communications |
| Website | gcore.com | highreso.jp |
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Our data for Gcore was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for HIGHRESO on Sept. 18, 2026.