Gcore
vs
Paperspace
What's good about each
- 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
- Competitive GPU prices
- Managed platform, from notebooks to container-based clusters
- Free ingress and egress
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Gcore | Paperspace | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $17.60 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (g1-standard-1-2) | $6.48 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (C2) | 2.7x more expensive on Gcore |
| Medium VM | $70.49 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (g1-standard-4-8) | $57.60 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (C5) | 18% cheaper on Paperspace |
| Large VM | $141.06 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (g1-standard-8-16) | $115.20 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (C6) | 18% cheaper on Paperspace |
| Block storage | -- Not listed | $7.00 /mo 100 GB SSD · Billed hourly, capped at $7.00 / mo | |
| Object storage | $47.24 /mo 1 TB, 250k write requests | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $17.60 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (lb1-1-2) | -- Not listed | |
| Serverless | $7.65 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms (Darmstadt) | -- Not listed | |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | Free and unlimited | |
| Egress | Free for most services Server egress is free. CDN includes 1 TB, then €0.030/GB | -- Not 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 Paperspace offers 12. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Gcore | Paperspace | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
9 configs · 2 configs
|
$1.77 /GPU/hr On-demand | $5.95 /GPU/hr On-demand | 3.4x more expensive on Paperspace |
|
A100
5 configs · 4 configs
|
$1.46 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | 2.1x more expensive on Paperspace |
|
B300
1 config
|
$6.96 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Gcore only |
|
H200
1 config
|
$3.17 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Gcore only |
|
L40S
4 configs
|
$1.25 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Gcore only |
|
GB300
1 config
|
-- On request | -- | Gcore only |
|
RTX A6000
2 configs
|
-- | $1.89 /GPU/hr On-demand | Paperspace only |
|
V100
3 configs
|
-- | $2.30 /GPU/hr On-demand | Paperspace only |
|
A5000
1 config
|
-- | $1.38 /GPU/hr On-demand | Paperspace only |
|
A4000
1 config
|
-- | $0.76 /GPU/hr On-demand | Paperspace only |
Gcore bills on-demand; Paperspace bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Company details
| Fact | Gcore | Paperspace |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2014 | 2014 |
| Headquarters | Luxembourg | USA |
| Locations | 53 | 3 |
| Example customers | Xsolla, jsDelivr, Orange, Avast | Fast.ai, SciSpace, Tunebat, Spectrum Labs, Kando |
| Website | gcore.com | paperspace.com |
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Our data for Gcore was last updated on Aug. 31, 2026, and for Paperspace on Sept. 11, 2026.