Gcore
vs
OpenRelay
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
- Nvidia and AMD GPUs, from RTX 3090 to B300
- No egress fees, disk included in the hourly rate
- Whole GPUs passed through with root SSH access
- OpenAI-compatible inference API billed per token
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Gcore | OpenRelay | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $11.58 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (g3a-standard-1-2) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $46.36 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (g3a-standard-4-8) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $92.73 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (g3a-standard-8-16) | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $51.65 /mo 1 TB (Standard) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $16.95 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (lb1-1-2) | -- Not listed | |
| Serverless | $7.37 /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 offers 6 GPU models, while OpenRelay offers 15. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Gcore | OpenRelay | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
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$6.70 /GPU/hr On-demand | $8.49 /GPU/hr On-demand | 21% cheaper on Gcore |
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$2.64 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.20 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | 17% cheaper on OpenRelay |
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$1.52 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.10 /GPU/hr On-demand | 28% cheaper on OpenRelay |
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$3.55 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Gcore only |
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-- On request | -- | Gcore only |
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$1.42 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Gcore only |
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-- | $6.30 /GPU/hr On-demand | OpenRelay only |
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-- | $1.55 /GPU/hr On-demand | OpenRelay only |
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-- | $0.52 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | OpenRelay only |
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-- | $0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | OpenRelay only |
Gcore bills on-demand; OpenRelay 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 | OpenRelay |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2014 | -- |
| Headquarters | Luxembourg | USA |
| Locations | 33 | 3 |
| Example customers | Microsoft, ProSieben, Higgsfield, Leonardo AI, Funcom | -- |
| Website | gcore.com | openrelay.inc |
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Our data for Gcore was last updated on Nov. 9, 2026, and for OpenRelay on Nov. 9, 2026.