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

Packet·ai logo Packet·ai

  • Deploy GPUs in <5 minutes
  • Free, unlimited data egress
  • OpenAI-compatible API for inference
  • Based in EU, may ease compliance requirements

Price comparison

How do Gcore's prices compare against Packet·ai?

VM Small

Gcore Gcore
$17.60 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (g1-standard-1-2)
Packet·ai Packet·ai
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VM Medium

Gcore Gcore
$70.49 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (g1-standard-4-8)
Packet·ai Packet·ai
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VM Large

Gcore Gcore
$141.06 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (g1-standard-8-16)
Packet·ai Packet·ai
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Block Storage

Gcore Gcore
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Packet·ai Packet·ai
$7.20 /mo 100 GB ($0.01 per 100 GB/hour)

Object Storage

Gcore Gcore
$47.24 /mo 1 TB, 250k write requests
Packet·ai Packet·ai
$18.00 /mo 1 TB stored (hot tier, S3-compatible)

Load Balancer

Gcore Gcore
$17.60 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (lb1-1-2)
Packet·ai Packet·ai
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Serverless 25M Executions

Gcore Gcore
$7.65 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms (Darmstadt)
Packet·ai Packet·ai
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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
Packet·ai Packet·ai
$40.00 $0.04/GB

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Gcore Gcore
Packet·ai Packet·ai
A100 $1.46 $1.43 L40S $1.25 $0.92

Billing Options

Gcore Gcore
On-DemandCustom
Packet·ai Packet·ai
On-DemandCustom

Available Models

Gcore offers 6 GPU models, while Packet·ai offers 8.

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

Company details

Website
Gcore Gcore
gcore.com
Packet·ai Packet·ai
packet.ai
Headquarters
Gcore Gcore
Luxembourg LU flag
Packet·ai Packet·ai
United States of America US flag
Founded
Gcore Gcore
2014
Packet·ai Packet·ai
2026
Data Center Locations
Gcore Gcore
53
Packet·ai Packet·ai
8
Example Customers
Gcore Gcore
Xsolla, jsDelivr, Orange, Avast
Packet·ai Packet·ai
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Our data for Gcore was last updated on Aug. 31, 2026, and for Packet·ai on Sept. 11, 2026.