Theta EdgeCloud vs UpCloud

What's good about each

Theta EdgeCloud

Datacenter H200, V100 and T4 machines, 1-4 GPUs
Consumer cards from a community fleet, priced per operator
Sharable persistent volumes that survive a stop and restart
Multi-node GPU clusters for distributed training
Inference APIs, dedicated model serving and Jupyter notebooks on the same account

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

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

Service	Theta EdgeCloud	UpCloud
Small VM	-- Not listed	$3.50 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 10 GB storage (Starter)
Medium VM	-- Not listed	$24.00 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 40 GB storage (Starter)
Large VM	-- Not listed	$92.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Cloud Native)
Block storage	-- Not listed	$25.00 /mo 100 GB (MaxIOPS)
Object storage	-- Not listed	$20.00 /mo 1 TB
PostgreSQL	-- Not listed	$69.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 10 GB storage (Standard)
Redis	-- Not listed	$8.00 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Valkey)
Load balancer	-- Not listed	Free 1 node, 1,000 sessions (Essentials)
Egress	-- Not listed	Free within fair usage policy 1-48 TB per instance, then reduced bandwidth

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

Theta EdgeCloud offers 12 GPU models, while UpCloud offers 5. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.

GPU	Theta EdgeCloud	UpCloud	Difference
H200 3 configs	$3.69 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Theta EdgeCloud only
V100 2 configs	$0.99 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 5060 Ti 1 config	$0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Theta EdgeCloud only
RTX 5080 1 config	$0.35 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Theta EdgeCloud only
T4 2 configs	$0.20 /GPU/hr On-demand	--	Theta EdgeCloud only
H100 8 configs	--	$1.88 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out	UpCloud only
B200 8 configs	--	$3.90 /GPU/hr Spot · sold out	UpCloud only
RTX PRO 6000 8 configs	--	$1.41 /GPU/hr Spot	UpCloud only
L40S 22 configs	--	$0.89 /GPU/hr Spot	UpCloud only
L4 22 configs	--	$0.68 /GPU/hr Spot	UpCloud only

All 12 GPUs on Theta EdgeCloud All 5 GPUs on UpCloud

Theta EdgeCloud bills on-demand; UpCloud bills on-demand and spot. The line under each price names the billing type shown.

Thunder Compute

RTX A6000 from $0.35, A100 from $1.09, per GPU per hour

Billed per minute, no commitment, no minimums

One click into VS Code or Cursor, no SSH setup

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Services

Managed services each provider offers.

Service	Theta EdgeCloud	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)

Compliance

Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.

Framework	Theta EdgeCloud	UpCloud
SOC 2	--	Data centers only
ISO 27001	--	Yes
GDPR	--	Yes

Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.

Company details

Fact	Theta EdgeCloud	UpCloud
Founded	2024	2011
Headquarters	USA	Finland
Locations	--	15
Example customers	KAIST, NTU Singapore, Houston Rockets	Aiven, Xensam, HackTheBox, LeadDesk
Website	www.thetaedgecloud.com	upcloud.com

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Our data for Theta EdgeCloud was last updated on Oct. 2, 2026, and for UpCloud on Oct. 2, 2026.