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title: "GPU & High Performance Compute: ranked reviews and comparisons"
description: "GPU cloud, bare metal and dedicated servers compared on what one H100 really costs per hour on demand and committed, whether a small team can sign up and get a GPU without a sales call or a quota ticket, who owns the hardware and where it sits, who owns the company, and the tooling (Kubernetes, Slurm, an API, Terraform and an MCP server)."
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last-updated: "2026-09-22"
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# GPU & High Performance Compute: ranked reviews and comparisons

> GPU cloud, bare metal and dedicated servers compared on what one H100 really costs per hour on demand and committed, whether a small team can sign up and get a GPU without a sales call or a quota ticket, who owns the hardware and where it sits, who owns the company, and the tooling (Kubernetes, Slurm, an API, Terraform and an MCP server).

- Last updated: 2026-09-22

## Ranking

Ranked by Saaskly's editorial score (0–5). Ties share a rank. Method: https://saaskly.com/editorial-policy.md

1. **1. [OVHcloud GPU & Bare Metal](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/ovhcloud-gpu.md)**: 4.2/5. H100 instances and dedicated servers from the largest European hoster, priced in pounds with free egress, for teams that want EU hardware and a fixed bill.
2. **2. [RunPod](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/runpod.md)**: 4.0/5. RunPod rents single NVIDIA GPUs by the second in two tiers, vetted partner data centres and a marketplace of third-party hosts, to teams that sign up with a card.
3. **3. [Civo](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/civo.md)**: 3.9/5. A London company selling a Kubernetes-first cloud with NVIDIA GPUs, including H100 in its London region, to teams that sign up and pay by card.
4. **4. [DigitalOcean GPU Droplets](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/digitalocean-gpu.md)**: 3.8/5. Hourly NVIDIA and AMD GPU servers you can start with a card, for UK and EU teams training, fine-tuning or serving models without a sales call.
5. **5. [Vultr Cloud GPU & Bare Metal](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/vultr-cloud-gpu.md)**: 3.5/5. Fractional and whole NVIDIA and AMD GPUs plus single-tenant bare metal, from a US cloud running 33 regions including London and Manchester.
6. **6. [Hyperstack](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/hyperstack.md)**: 3.4/5. On-demand NVIDIA GPUs by the hour from a London-registered company, with published spot prices, managed Kubernetes and data centres in Norway, Canada and Texas.
7. **7. [Hetzner Dedicated & GPU Servers](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/hetzner-dedicated.md)**: 3.3/5. German dedicated root servers and single-GPU Blackwell machines, billed by the hour with unlimited traffic, for teams that want their own hardware inside the EU.
8. **8. [Scaleway GPU & Bare Metal](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/scaleway-gpu.md)**: 3.1/5. French GPU cloud and bare metal from Paris and Warsaw, billed by the minute, for teams that want H100s and dedicated servers kept inside the EU.
9. **9. [Lambda](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/lambda.md)**: 3.0/5. GPU cloud for AI training and inference, with H100 and B200 nodes, InfiniBand clusters and one European region, booked self-serve and billed by the minute.
10. **10. [CoreWeave](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/coreweave.md)**: 2.9/5. CoreWeave is a Nasdaq-listed AI cloud renting whole eight-GPU NVIDIA nodes with InfiniBand, Kubernetes and Slurm to teams training and serving large models.
11. **11. [Amazon EC2](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/amazon-ec2.md)**: 2.7/5. Amazon's compute service, offering NVIDIA H100, A100, L40S and L4 GPUs, HPC instances and bare metal servers across 39 regions including London.
12. **12. [Nebius](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/nebius.md)**: 2.6/5. An Amsterdam-headquartered, Nasdaq-listed AI cloud renting NVIDIA GPUs by the second, aimed at teams that want to train and serve models without a sales call.

## Comparison table

| Provider | Rating | H100 per GPU-hour* | Committed H100 | Cheapest GPU | 8xH100 node | Spot / interruptible | Cheapest dedicated server | Setup fee | Billing | Egress | Storage (per GB/mo) | Self-serve signup | GPU quota | Hardware** | UK location | H100 in the UK | EU locations | Locations | Owned in | Owner | Origin | Cluster networking | Kubernetes | Slurm | Bare metal | API | Terraform | MCP server | Uptime SLA (%) | Trustpilot (reviews) |
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| [OVHcloud GPU & Bare Metal](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/ovhcloud-gpu.md) | 4.2/5 | £2.41/h (NVIDIA H100 80 GB (h100-380)) | None | £0.34/h (NVIDIA RTX 5000 (rtx5000-28)) | Not on demand | No | £8.89/mo (KS-B (Eco): Intel Xeon E5-1620v2 4C/8T, 1U OVH frame, 99.9% SLA (GBP 101.35 for 12 months paid upfront)) | None | Per hour | Included | £0.060 | Yes | Quota ticket | Own data centres | Yes | No | 7 | 15 | EU-owned | OVH Groupe SA (Klaba family control) | — | No | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | — | 3.8 (8,629) |
| [RunPod](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/runpod.md) | 4.0/5 | $3.49/h (NVIDIA H100 SXM 80 GB (Secure Cloud)) | Sales only | $0.16/h (NVIDIA RTX A5000 24 GB (Community Cloud)) | Not on demand | No | None | — | Per second | Included | $0.100 | Yes | Automatic limit raise | Own hardware, colocated | No | No | 5 | 18 | US-owned | Independent | — | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | No | Yes | — | 3.8 (315) |
| [Civo](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/civo.md) | 3.9/5 | $2.99/h (NVIDIA H100 SXM 80 GB) | $2.49/h (6 mo), 17% off | $1.09/h (NVIDIA A100 40 GB) | $23.92/h | No | None | — | Per hour | Included | $0.110 | Yes | Quota ticket | Own hardware, colocated | Yes | Yes | 1 | 5 | UK-owned | Independent | — | No | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | 99.95 | 4.0 (3) |
| [DigitalOcean GPU Droplets](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/digitalocean-gpu.md) | 3.8/5 | $4.41/h (NVIDIA H100 80 GB) | $3.26/h (12 mo), 26% off | $0.76/h (NVIDIA RTX 4000 Ada) | $35.28/h | Yes | None | — | Per second | $0.010/GB | $0.100 | Yes | Quota ticket | Own hardware, colocated | Yes | No | 2 | 16 | US-owned | DigitalOcean Holdings, Inc. (NYSE: DOCN) | — | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 99.00 | 4.5 (2,572) |
| [Vultr Cloud GPU & Bare Metal](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/vultr-cloud-gpu.md) | 3.5/5 | $2.99/h (NVIDIA H100 80 GB (eight-GPU node; preemptible-only self-serve)) | Sales only | $0.06/h (NVIDIA A16 fraction (2 GB vGPU, 2 vCPU / 8 GB)) | $23.92/h | Yes | $120/mo (Intel E3-1270, 4 cores / 8 threads at 3.8 GHz, 32 GB RAM, 2 x 240 GB SSD, 5 TB bandwidth (not sold in the UK; cheapest UK bare metal is the Intel E-2286G in London at $185 a month)) | None | Per hour | $0.010/GB | $0.100 | Yes | Automatic limit raise | Own hardware, colocated | Yes | No | 7 | 33 | US-owned | The Constant Company, LLC | — | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | — | 1.6 (582) |
| [Hyperstack](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/hyperstack.md) | 3.4/5 | $3.20/h (NVIDIA H100 SXM 80 GB) | $2.72/h, 15% off | $0.15/h (NVIDIA RTX A4000) | Not on demand | Yes | None | — | Per minute | Included | $0.073 | Yes | None | Own hardware, colocated | No | No | 0 | 3 | UK-owned | Artemis 2 Limited | — | Yes | Yes | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | — | 2.5 (8) |
| [Hetzner Dedicated & GPU Servers](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/hetzner-dedicated.md) | 3.3/5 | €1.92/h (NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96 GB (GEX131; no H100 sold)) | None | €0.34/h (NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell SFF 24 GB (GEX45)) | Not on demand | No | €59/mo (AX41: AMD Ryzen 5 3600 (6 core), 64 GB DDR4, 2x 512 GB NVMe, unlimited traffic, 1 IPv4) | None | Per hour | Included | €0.003 | Yes | None | Own data centres | No | No | 3 | 3 | EU-owned | Hetzner Online GmbH (privately held, no listing) | — | No | No | No | Yes | Yes | No | No | 99.90 | 3.0 (2,971) |
| [Scaleway GPU & Bare Metal](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/scaleway-gpu.md) | 3.1/5 | €2.87/h (NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80 GB (H100-1-80G)) | None | €0.79/h (NVIDIA L4 24 GB) | €25.33/h | No | €27.99/mo (EM-A116X-SSD: Intel Xeon E3 1220 4C/4T, 32 GB RAM, 2 x 1.02 TB SSD, 500 Mbps (a RISC-V EM-RV1 server is cheaper at EUR 15.99 a month)) | None | Per minute | Included | €0.095 | Yes | Quota ticket | Own data centres | No | No | 3 | 3 | EU-owned | Iliad SA | — | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | — | 1.5 (351) |
| [Lambda](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/lambda.md) | 3.0/5 | $4.29/h (NVIDIA H100 SXM 80 GB) | Sales only | $0.69/h (NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000 24 GB) | $31.92/h | No | None | — | Per minute | Included | $0.200 | Yes | None | Own hardware, colocated | No | No | 1 | 14 | US-owned | Independent | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | No | — | 2.6 (4) |
| [CoreWeave](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/coreweave.md) | 2.9/5 | $6.16/h (NVIDIA H100 80 GB SXM (sold only as an eight-GPU HGX node)) | Sales only | $1.25/h (NVIDIA L40 (sold only as an eight-GPU node)) | $49.24/h | Yes | $4,687/mo (AMD Genoa 9274F CPU-only node) | None | Per hour | Included | $0.070 | No | Quota ticket | Own hardware, colocated | Yes | No | 0 | 7 | US-owned | Independent | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | 99.90 | — |
| [Amazon EC2](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/amazon-ec2.md) | 2.7/5 | $8.94/h (NVIDIA H100 80 GB (p5.48xlarge, eight GPUs, London)) | $3.36/h (36 mo), 62% off | $1.02/h (NVIDIA L4 (g6.xlarge, London)) | $71.55/h | Yes | $3,539/mo (c5.metal (London), 96 vCPU / 192 GiB RAM, EBS only, 25 Gbit network, $4.848 an hour on demand) | None | Per second | $0.090/GB | $0.093 | Yes | Quota ticket | Own data centres | Yes | Yes | 6 | 39 | US-owned | Amazon | — | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | 99.99 | 1.3 (427) |
| [Nebius](https://saaskly.com/category/gpu-compute/nebius.md) | 2.6/5 | $3.85/h (NVIDIA H100 NVLink (SXM) 80 GB) | Sales only | $1.55/h (NVIDIA L40S PCIe) | $30.80/h | Yes | None | — | Per second | Included | $0.071 | Yes | None | Own data centres | Yes | No | 5 | 10 | EU-owned | Nebius Group N.V. | Spun out of Yandex N.V. in July 2024; founded and led by Yandex co-founder Arkady Volozh | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | 99.50 | 2.9 (2) |

* One NVIDIA H100 80 GB per GPU-hour, on demand, in the currency the vendor shows a UK visitor; where the vendor sells no H100 the nearest GPU is named. Committed prices are the cheapest published rate and its minimum term.

** Who owns and runs the GPUs. "Third-party hosts" means the vendor is a marketplace for other people's machines and the SLA is theirs, not the vendor's.

## Articles

- [Best GPU Cloud and High Performance Compute for UK Business in 2026: OVHcloud Wins in Pounds, RunPod Is Fastest to a GPU, and the H100 Is Rarely in Britain](https://saaskly.com/comparisons/best-gpu-cloud-high-performance-compute-2026.md): Comparison. Twelve GPU clouds, bare-metal and dedicated-server providers compared on what one H100 really costs an hour, whether a new account can get one today, who owns the hardware and where it sits. OVHcloud wins in pounds, RunPod is fastest to a GPU, and only two providers had an H100 in Britain.

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Researched and drafted with AI assistance; reviewed and approved by Tim Meredith. See https://saaskly.com/ai-transparency.md and https://saaskly.com/editorial-policy.md.

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