Gcore
vs
Lightning AI
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
- Billed by the second, interruptible machines 50-80% off
- Studios move between its own cloud, AWS, GCP, Lambda and Nebius
- Owned H100, B200 and GB300 fleet in US datacenters
- Bring your own AWS or GCP account and spend cloud credits
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Gcore | Lightning AI | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $11.56 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (g3a-standard-1-2) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $46.29 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (g3a-standard-4-8) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $92.60 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (g3a-standard-8-16) | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | -- Not listed | $10.00 /mo 100 GB (Drive) · First 10 GB free | |
| Object storage | $51.58 /mo 1 TB (Standard) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $16.93 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (lb1-1-2) | -- Not listed | |
| Serverless | $7.36 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms (Darmstadt) | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | Free from VMs, billed from Object Storage | Not publicly 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 Lightning AI offers 8. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Gcore | Lightning AI | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
5 configs · 4 configs
|
$2.63 /GPU/hr On-demand | $5.45 /GPU/hr On-demand | 52% cheaper on Gcore |
|
H200
1 config · 4 configs
|
$3.55 /GPU/hr On-demand | $4.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 21% cheaper on Gcore |
|
A100
1 config · 8 configs
|
$1.52 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.55 /GPU/hr On-demand | Within 5% |
|
L40S
1 config · 3 configs
|
$1.42 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.97 /GPU/hr On-demand | 52% cheaper on Gcore |
|
B300
1 config
|
$6.69 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Gcore only |
|
GB300
1 config
|
-- On request | -- | Gcore only |
|
B200
1 config
|
-- | $9.86 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lightning AI only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
4 configs
|
-- | $4.63 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lightning AI only |
|
L4
4 configs
|
-- | $0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lightning AI only |
|
T4
2 configs
|
-- | $0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand | Lightning AI only |
Gcore bills on-demand; Lightning AI 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 | Gcore | Lightning AI |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type I | Type II, AWS and GCP clouds only |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | -- |
| HIPAA | -- | AWS and GCP clouds only |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | Yes | -- |
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 | Lightning AI |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2014 | 2019 |
| Headquarters | Luxembourg | USA |
| Locations | 33 | -- |
| Example customers | Microsoft, ProSieben, Higgsfield, Leonardo AI, Funcom | Nvidia, Cursor, Cisco, Runway, Supercell, Stability AI, Black Forest Labs |
| Website | gcore.com | lightning.ai |
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Our data for Gcore was last updated on Oct. 28, 2026, and for Lightning AI on Oct. 28, 2026.