Gcore
vs
Hikube
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
- Storage replicated across datacenters in Geneva, Gland and Lucerne
- H100, H200 and A100 GPUs on VMs or Kubernetes
- Managed Postgres, Redis, ClickHouse, Kafka and RabbitMQ
- ISO 27001 certified company and datacenters
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Gcore | Hikube | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $11.89 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (g3a-standard-1-2) | $28.89 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (s1.small) | 59% cheaper on Gcore |
| Medium VM | $47.59 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (g3a-standard-4-8) | $115.55 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (s1.large) | 59% cheaper on Gcore |
| Large VM | $95.20 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (g3a-standard-8-16) | $231.10 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (s1.xlarge) | 59% cheaper on Gcore |
| Block storage | -- Not listed | $21.97 /mo 100 GB | |
| Object storage | $53.03 /mo 1 TB (Standard) | $24.41 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress | 54% cheaper on Hikube |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $59.13 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB (large) | |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $24.08 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (medium) | |
| Load balancer | $17.40 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (lb1-1-2) | -- Not listed | |
| Serverless | $7.57 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms (Darmstadt) | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | Free from VMs, billed from Object Storage | Free and unlimited |
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 and Hikube each offer 6 GPU models. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Gcore | Hikube | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
9 configs · 1 config
|
$1.75 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.88 /GPU/hr On-demand | 55% cheaper on Gcore |
|
H200
1 config · 1 config
|
$3.13 /GPU/hr On-demand | $4.71 /GPU/hr On-demand | 34% cheaper on Gcore |
|
A100
5 configs · 1 config
|
$1.44 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.03 /GPU/hr On-demand | 52% cheaper on Gcore |
|
L40S
4 configs · 1 config
|
$1.24 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.81 /GPU/hr On-demand | 32% cheaper on Gcore |
|
B300
1 config
|
$6.88 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Gcore only |
|
GB300
1 config
|
-- On request | -- | Gcore only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
1 config
|
-- | $3.13 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hikube only |
|
L4
1 config
|
-- | $0.81 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hikube only |
Gcore bills on-demand; Hikube 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 | Hikube |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2014 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | Luxembourg | Switzerland |
| Locations | 33 | 3 |
| Example customers | Microsoft, ProSieben, Higgsfield, Leonardo AI, Funcom | -- |
| Website | gcore.com | hikube.cloud |
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Our data for Gcore was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Hikube on Sept. 22, 2026.