OVHcloud GPU Alternative (2026): GPU Prices vs PowerGPU

OVHcloud GPU alternative: same NVIDIA GPUs, fixed prices 30% under the market

OVHcloud is a European infrastructure provider built around data sovereignty: self-service Public Cloud GPU instances (H100, A100, L40S, L4) billed hourly, plus dedicated Scale and HGR-AI bare-metal GPU servers sold by quote outside the self-service catalog. The current H100/A100/L40S/L4 flavors are concentrated in a single region, Gravelines (GRA11), while OVHcloud's non-GPU Public Cloud spans dozens of datacenters across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. Billing is hourly, payment is by card or SEPA, and most European and North American datacenters include unlimited outbound bandwidth.

4 min read Updated 2026-09-14 PowerGPU prices live from the sheet

OVHcloud vs PowerGPU at a glance

OVHcloud

European sovereign cloud: hourly Public Cloud GPUs, Scale/HGR-AI bare metal by quote

PowerGPU

Fixed prices at market median × 0.70, crypto only, verified datacenters

	OVHcloud	PowerGPU
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 PowerGPU prices, GPU by GPU

Public on-demand list prices per GPU-hour on OVHcloud's pricing page (2026-09-04) against PowerGPU's fixed rates today — every PowerGPU price is the public marketplace median × 0.70, rounded down, re-checked weekly.

GPU	OVHcloud list	PowerGPU on-demand	PowerGPU interruptible	Difference
H100 PCIE h100-380 flavor, 1× GPU 80 GB, Public Cloud GRA11 (Gravelines) · h100-1 flavor $3.39	$2.99	$1.867	$0.933	−38% on PowerGPU
A100 PCIE a100-180 flavor, 1× GPU 80 GB, Public Cloud GRA11	$3.07	$0.374	$0.187	−88% on PowerGPU
L40S l40s-1-gpu flavor, 1× GPU 48 GB, Public Cloud GRA11	$1.69	$0.514	$0.257	−70% on PowerGPU
L4 l4-1-gpu flavor, 1× GPU 24 GB, Public Cloud GRA11	$0.91	$0.225	$0.112	−75% on PowerGPU

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 PowerGPU

Every current OVHcloud GPU flavor sits in one region, Gravelines; PowerGPU 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 PowerGPU
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	powergpu CLI / REST API / Terraform provider

the whole migration, from the shell

pip install powergpu
export POWERGPU_API_KEY=pg_live_…          # console → API keys
powergpu launch --gpu h100-pcie --template pytorch --disk 100 --volume data:/data
# ✓ instance i-52ab77c1 running (24.1s) · $1.867/hr · per second
powergpu stop i-52ab77c1                      # billing ends this second

Data moves the boring way: rsync or rclone from your OVHcloud machine to a PowerGPU 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	PowerGPU
1× H100 PCIE, 730 hours on-demand	$2,183	$1,363
1× H100 PCIE, 8 h/day × 20 days	$478	$299
Same 160 hours, PowerGPU interruptible	—	$149
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 PowerGPU 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); PowerGPU fixes both at the public market median × 0.70. OVHcloud's L40S ($1.69/hr) and L4 ($0.91/hr) are also priced above PowerGPU'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. PowerGPU runs the same catalog across 32 regions today.

Is OVHcloud's free bandwidth better than PowerGPU's?

OVHcloud's unlimited outbound bandwidth in EU/North American datacenters is real and worth factoring in for very large, repeated transfers. PowerGPU 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; PowerGPU is not affiliated with OVHcloud. NVIDIA GPU names are trademarks of NVIDIA Corporation.