OVHcloud vs LowCostGPU at a glance
OVHcloud
European sovereign cloud: hourly Public Cloud GPUs, Scale/HGR-AI bare metal by quote
LowCostGPU
Fixed prices at market median × 0.70, crypto only, verified datacenters
| OVHcloud | LowCostGPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing | Per hour (Public Cloud GPU instances); Scale/HGR-AI dedicated servers quoted separately | Per second, no minimum, price locked at deploy |
| Payment | Card, SEPA direct debit, PayPal; invoicing for business accounts | Crypto only — USDT (TRC-20/ERC-20), BTC, XMR, LTC, ETH, TRX, SOL |
| Identity | Account and card/SEPA verification; KYB for dedicated bare metal | Email + password. No KYC, no card, no stored IP addresses |
| Free credit | Occasional promotional credits for new Public Cloud accounts (varies) | None — every hour is ≥30% under the market median instead |
| Cheaper tier | None published for GPU flavors; committed-spend discounts via sales quote | Interruptible flat −50% (no auction) · reserved −35% (3+ months) |
| Regions | GPU flavors: Gravelines (GRA11) only today · non-GPU Public Cloud: 30+ regions across Europe, North America, APAC | 32 regions on 5 continents, verified datacenters only |
| Minimums | None on Public Cloud GPU instances (1×, 2×, 4× shown); dedicated Scale/HGR-AI servers sold whole | None — 1× to 8× GPUs at the same per-GPU price |
| Storage | Classic Volume about $0.047/GB/month (€0.04, converted) | $0.08/GB/month NVMe, volumes survive instances |
| Egress | Unlimited and free in most EU and North American datacenters; 1 TB/month free elsewhere then €0.069/GB | $0.01/GB in and out, every region |
| Access | OpenStack-based VMs, Manager console, API, CLI, Terraform provider | Containers or full KVM VMs, SSH, Jupyter, REST API, CLI, Python SDK |
OVHcloud column: as published on ovhcloud.com on 2026-09-04. Details change — verify before you decide.
OVHcloud vs LowCostGPU prices, GPU by GPU
Public on-demand list prices per GPU-hour on OVHcloud's pricing page (2026-09-04) against LowCostGPU's fixed rates today — every LowCostGPU price is the public marketplace median × 0.70, rounded down, re-checked weekly.
| GPU | OVHcloud list | LowCostGPU on-demand | LowCostGPU interruptible | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H100 PCIE h100-380 flavor, 1× GPU 80 GB, Public Cloud GRA11 (Gravelines) · h100-1 flavor $3.39 | $2.99 | $1.811 | $0.905 | −39% on LowCostGPU |
| A100 PCIE a100-180 flavor, 1× GPU 80 GB, Public Cloud GRA11 | $3.07 | $0.388 | $0.194 | −87% on LowCostGPU |
| L40S l40s-1-gpu flavor, 1× GPU 48 GB, Public Cloud GRA11 | $1.69 | $0.448 | $0.224 | −73% on LowCostGPU |
| L4 l4-1-gpu flavor, 1× GPU 24 GB, Public Cloud GRA11 | $0.91 | $0.196 | $0.098 | −78% on LowCostGPU |
Configurations differ (node sizes, tiers, regions); the note beside each card says which OVHcloud price is quoted. Negative differences mean OVHcloud is cheaper on that card.
When to stay with OVHcloud
- Data sovereignty in a French/EU-headquartered cloud is a hard requirement for your workload.
- Free, unlimited outbound bandwidth in EU/North American datacenters matters more than the per-GPU rate for bandwidth-heavy jobs.
- You need a quoted Scale/HGR-AI bare-metal contract rather than a self-service hourly instance.
Why teams switch to LowCostGPU
- Every current OVHcloud GPU flavor sits in one region, Gravelines; LowCostGPU fixes the same cards at market median × 0.70 across 32 regions on five continents.
- Consumer and workstation cards (RTX 5090, 4090, RTX PRO 6000) that OVHcloud does not sell in self-service Public Cloud.
- No card, no SEPA mandate, no KYC — top up in crypto and deploy in about 30 seconds instead of provisioning through the Manager console.
- A flat −50% interruptible tier and −35% reserved tier instead of a quote-only discount process.
Switching from OVHcloud: what maps to what
| On OVHcloud | On LowCostGPU |
|---|---|
| H100 / A100 / L40S / L4 instance (GRA11) | Instance — the same cards available in all 32 regions |
| Additional Disk (Classic Volume) | Volume, $0.08/GB/month |
| Scale / HGR-AI bare metal (quoted) | 8× SXM machine or a cluster at the same per-GPU price, no quote needed |
| OVHcloud Manager / API / Terraform | lowcostgpu CLI / REST API / Terraform provider |
pip install lowcostgpu
export LOWCOSTGPU_API_KEY=pg_live_… # console → API keys
lowcostgpu launch --gpu h100-pcie --template pytorch --disk 100 --volume data:/data
# ✓ instance i-52ab77c1 running (24.1s) · $1.811/hr · per second
lowcostgpu stop i-52ab77c1 # billing ends this secondData moves the boring way: rsync or rclone from your OVHcloud machine to a LowCostGPU volume, which then mounts on every future instance in seconds. Templates for PyTorch, vLLM, ComfyUI and Ollama are official images; anything else runs from its OCI reference.
A real month, costed
| Scenario | OVHcloud | LowCostGPU |
|---|---|---|
| 1× H100 PCIE, 730 hours on-demand | $2,183 | $1,322 |
| 1× H100 PCIE, 8 h/day × 20 days | $478 | $290 |
| Same 160 hours, LowCostGPU interruptible | — | $145 |
| 500 GB of storage, one month | Classic Volume about $0.047/GB/month (€0.04, converted) | $40 |
Run your own schedule through the cost calculator — it adds storage and bandwidth and compares against the marketplace median.
OVHcloud GPU alternative: FAQ
Is LowCostGPU cheaper than OVHcloud for GPUs?
On the flavors OVHcloud lists for self-service, yes: the H100 (h100-380) is $2.99/hr and the A100 80 GB (a100-180) is $3.07/hr on OVHcloud Public Cloud (checked 2026-09-04); LowCostGPU fixes both at the public market median × 0.70. OVHcloud's L40S ($1.69/hr) and L4 ($0.91/hr) are also priced above LowCostGPU's on-demand rate for the same cards.
Does OVHcloud offer more GPU regions than Gravelines?
Not yet for the current H100/A100/L40S/L4 flavors — they remain concentrated in GRA11 as of the date checked. LowCostGPU runs the same catalog across 32 regions today.
Is OVHcloud's free bandwidth better than LowCostGPU's?
OVHcloud's unlimited outbound bandwidth in EU/North American datacenters is real and worth factoring in for very large, repeated transfers. LowCostGPU charges a flat $0.01/GB in and out, which most GPU workloads — weights, checkpoints, generated media — do not run up significantly against.
Try the switch for the price of a coffee
Top up $40 in USDT or Monero, deploy the same image you run on OVHcloud, and benchmark it. No card, no KYC, per-second billing — stop it the minute you are done.
OVHcloud and its logo are trademarks of their owner, used here only to identify the compared service; LowCostGPU is not affiliated with OVHcloud. NVIDIA GPU names are trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation.
