What's good about...

Gcore logo Gcore

  • 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

Lium logo Lium

  • Competitive pricing, billed per minute with no hourly minimum
  • Rent a single GPU or a full 8-GPU node
  • Wide range of GPU models, including H100, H200 and RTX PRO 6000
  • CLI, Python SDK and an agent skill for coding agents

Price comparison

How do Gcore's prices compare against Lium?

VM Small

Gcore Gcore
$17.64 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (g1-standard-1-2)
Lium Lium
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VM Medium

Gcore Gcore
$70.67 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (g1-standard-4-8)
Lium Lium
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VM Large

Gcore Gcore
$141.43 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (g1-standard-8-16)
Lium Lium
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Object Storage

Gcore Gcore
$47.36 / mo 1 TB, 250k write requests
Lium Lium
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Load Balancer

Gcore Gcore
$17.64 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (lb1-1-2)
Lium Lium
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Serverless 25M Executions

Gcore Gcore
$7.67 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms (Darmstadt)
Lium Lium
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Gcore Gcore
Free for most services Server egress is free. CDN includes 1 TB, then €0.030/GB
Lium Lium
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Lium logo Lium Pricing Details

Lium bills per minute with no hourly minimum, against a prepaid balance.

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Gcore Gcore
Lium Lium
H100 $1.78 $1.00 B300 $6.97 $8.50 H200 $3.17 $3.00 A100 $1.46 $1.23

Billing Options

Gcore Gcore
On-DemandCustom
Lium Lium
On-DemandSpot

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Which services do they offer

Company details

Website
Gcore Gcore
gcore.com
Lium Lium
lium.io
Headquarters
Gcore Gcore
Luxembourg LU flag
Lium Lium
United States of America US flag
Founded
Gcore Gcore
2014
Lium Lium
2024
Data Center Locations
Gcore Gcore
53
Lium Lium
14
Example Customers
Gcore Gcore
Xsolla, jsDelivr, Orange, Avast
Lium Lium
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Our data for Gcore was last updated on Aug. 31, 2026, and for Lium on Sept. 8, 2026.