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Spheron vs UpCloud

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What's good about...

Spheron logo Spheron

  • Aggregates GPU supply from five data center partners
  • Blackwell B200 and B300 nodes offered on spot
  • Partner facilities certified to ISO 27001, SOC 2, and HIPAA
  • Regions in the US, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East

UpCloud logo UpCloud

  • Wide range of VPS options at competitive prices
  • Good selection of managed services, from databases to object storage to Kubernetes
  • Offers a 100% SLA with 50x compensation for service outages
  • Based in the EU, may ease GDPR compliance

Price comparison

How do Spheron's prices compare against UpCloud?

VM Small

Spheron Spheron
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UpCloud UpCloud
$3.50 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB storage (Starter)

VM Medium

Spheron Spheron
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UpCloud UpCloud
$24.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 40 GB storage (Starter)

VM Large

Spheron Spheron
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UpCloud UpCloud
$92.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Cloud Native)

Block Storage

Spheron Spheron
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UpCloud UpCloud
$25.00 / mo 100 GB (MaxIOPS)

Object Storage

Spheron Spheron
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UpCloud UpCloud
$20.00 / mo 1 TB

Load Balancer

Spheron Spheron
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UpCloud UpCloud
Free 1 node, 1,000 sessions (Essentials)

Managed PostgreSQL

Spheron Spheron
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UpCloud UpCloud
$69.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 10 GB storage (Standard)

Managed Redis®*

Spheron Spheron
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UpCloud UpCloud
$8.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Valkey)

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Spheron Spheron
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UpCloud UpCloud
Free within fair usage policy 1-48 TB per instance, then reduced bandwidth

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Spheron Spheron
UpCloud UpCloud
H100 $2.65 $1.89 B200 $9.36 $5.20 L40S $3.15 $1.19

Billing Options

Spheron Spheron
On-DemandSpot
UpCloud UpCloud
On-DemandSpot

Available Models

Spheron offers 9 GPU models, while UpCloud offers 4.

Spheron Spheron
H100(10) A100(7) H200(3) RTX PRO 6000(1) L40S(16) B200(3) B300(4) RTX A6000(3) L40(8)
UpCloud UpCloud
H100(8) L40S(22) B200(8) L4(22)

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.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Spheron and UpCloud offer:

Service Spheron UpCloud
Analytics
Block Storage
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
NoSQL Databases
Object Storage
Vector Databases
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Spheron Spheron
www.spheron.ai
UpCloud UpCloud
upcloud.com
Headquarters
Spheron Spheron
Singapore SG flag
UpCloud UpCloud
Finland FI flag
Founded
Spheron Spheron
2020
UpCloud UpCloud
2011
Data Center Locations
Spheron Spheron
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UpCloud UpCloud
15
Example Customers
Spheron Spheron
Prem AI, Wafer, Compute Desk, Baseten, Stanford University, UC Berkeley
UpCloud UpCloud
Aiven, Xensam, HackTheBox, LeadDesk

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Our data for Spheron was last updated on Sept. 3, 2026, and for UpCloud on Sept. 3, 2026.