Gcore vs Nova Cloud: Pricing & Features Compared (2026)

What's good about...

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

Nova Cloud

Per-second billing with no contracts or minimum spend
Owned-and-operated datacenters in Western Canada
Reserved 1, 3, and 6 month terms for additional discounts
5 Gb/s network bandwidth with all ports available

Price comparison

How do Gcore's prices compare against Nova Cloud?

VM Small

Gcore

$17.60 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (g1-standard-1-2)

Nova Cloud

VM Medium

Gcore

$70.49 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (g1-standard-4-8)

Nova Cloud

VM Large

Gcore

$141.06 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (g1-standard-8-16)

Nova Cloud

Object Storage

Gcore

$47.24 /mo 1 TB, 250k write requests

Nova Cloud

Load Balancer

Gcore

$17.60 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (lb1-1-2)

Nova Cloud

Serverless 25M Executions

Gcore

$7.65 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms (Darmstadt)

Nova Cloud

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Gcore

Free for most services Server egress is free. CDN includes 1 TB, then €0.030/GB

Nova Cloud

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Gcore

On-DemandCustom

Nova Cloud

On-DemandSpotReserved (1mo)Reserved (3mo)Reserved (6mo)

Available Models

Gcore offers 6 GPU models, while Nova Cloud offers 2.

Gcore

H100(9)

H200(1)

A100(5)

L40S(4)

B300(1)

GB300(1)

Nova Cloud

RTX PRO 6000(20)

RTX 5090(20)

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Which services do they offer