Hexabyte vs Nova Cloud

What's good about each

Hexabyte

Affordable VPS instances with customizable specs
S3-compatible object storage with no egress or API fees
Offers dedicated servers
EU-based with GDPR-friendly data storage

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

Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.

Service	Hexabyte	Nova Cloud
Small VM	$4.39 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe	-- Not listed
Medium VM	$11.08 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 80 GB NVMe	-- Not listed
Large VM	$20.01 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 160 GB NVMe	-- Not listed
Object storage	$6.81 /mo 1 TB (no egress or API fees)	-- Not listed
Egress allowance	20 TB / mo per instance	-- Not listed
Egress	$1.14 /TB per TB	-- 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

Hexabyte offers 1 GPU model, while Nova Cloud offers 2. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU	Hexabyte	Nova Cloud	Difference
L4 4 configs	$0.41 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Hexabyte only
RTX PRO 6000 20 configs	--	$0.30 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out	Nova Cloud only
RTX 5090 20 configs	--	$0.53 /GPU/hr Reserved (6 mo)	Nova Cloud only

All 1 GPU on Hexabyte All 2 GPUs on Nova Cloud

Hexabyte bills on-demand; Nova Cloud bills on-demand, spot and reserved (1, 3 or 6 months). The line under each price names the billing type shown.

Lium

Built for agents: CLI, SDK and MCP server. Your agent rents and runs GPUs itself.

A permissionless marketplace. 1000+ nodes from independent providers worldwide.

Hard to find nodes available; B200 and B300 Blackwell nodes listed now.

Consumer + DC grade cards for cheap. H100s from $1/hr, RTX 5090s from $0.35/hr.

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Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Service	Hexabyte	Nova Cloud
GPU-powered Servers
Object Storage
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Fact	Hexabyte	Nova Cloud
Founded	2016	2018
Headquarters	Sweden	Canada
Locations	1	1
Example customers	Molnett, Region Västerbotten, Umeå Kommunföretag, Enduce	--
Website	hexabyte.se	nova-cloud.ai

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Our data for Hexabyte was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Nova Cloud on Oct. 1, 2026.