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Gcore vs Render

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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

Render logo Render

  • Offers managed services from caches to databases to cron jobs to background workers
  • Managed PostgreSQL supports point-in-time recovery and high availability
  • Flat workspace fee with unlimited team members, no per-seat billing
  • Free tier covers web services, Postgres and Key Value

Price comparison

How do Gcore's prices compare against Render?

VM Small

Gcore Gcore
$17.60 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (g1-standard-1-2)
Render Render
$25.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Web Service)

VM Medium

Gcore Gcore
$70.49 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (g1-standard-4-8)
Render Render
$175.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Web Service)

VM Large

Gcore Gcore
$141.06 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (g1-standard-8-16)
Render Render
$450.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (Web Service)

Block Storage

Gcore Gcore
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Render Render
$25.00 /mo 100 GB

Object Storage

Gcore Gcore
$47.24 /mo 1 TB, 250k write requests
Render Render
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Load Balancer

Gcore Gcore
$17.60 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (lb1-1-2)
Render Render
Included in plan

Managed PostgreSQL

Gcore Gcore
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Render Render
$90.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (Basic-4gb) · $75 instance + 50 GB storage at $0.30 / GB

Managed Redis®*

Gcore Gcore
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Render Render
$32.00 /mo 1 GB RAM (Key Value Standard)

Serverless 25M Executions

Gcore Gcore
$7.65 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms (Darmstadt)
Render Render
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Free egress allowance

Gcore Gcore
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Render Render
5 GB (Hobby), 25 GB (Pro), 1 TB (Scale)

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Gcore Gcore
Free for most services Server egress is free. CDN includes 1 TB, then €0.030/GB
Render Render
$150.00 $0.15 / GB

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Gcore Gcore
On-DemandCustom
Render Render
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Available Models

Gcore offers 6 GPU models.

Gcore Gcore
H100(9) H200(1) A100(5) L40S(4) B300(1) GB300(1)
Render Render
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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

Here are some managed services that Gcore and Render offer:

Service Gcore Render
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Gcore Gcore
gcore.com
Render Render
render.com
Headquarters
Gcore Gcore
Luxembourg LU flag
Render Render
United States of America US flag
Founded
Gcore Gcore
2014
Render Render
2018
Data Center Locations
Gcore Gcore
53
Render Render
4
Example Customers
Gcore Gcore
Xsolla, jsDelivr, Orange, Avast
Render Render
Red Bull, Watershed, Equals, Felt

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Our data for Gcore was last updated on Aug. 31, 2026, and for Render on July 27, 2026.