neocloud · bare metal · Layer 2.5
OVHcloud
European bare-metal buyers who care about egress costs and data residency.
high portability Portable. The workload is standard enough to move to another vendor without a rewrite.
What you are buying
- Business model
- Purpose-built GPU cloud. Owns or leases its own datacentre capacity and sells it directly.
- How you reach it
- You get the physical machine. Maximum control, and every layer above it is yours to run.
- Accelerators
- H100, A100, L40S, L4
- Regions
- EU, Canada, US
- Pricing model
- Hourly and monthly, published, with famously low egress.
- Getting started
- Credit card.
- Capacity
- Moderate.
- Ownership
- Public (Euronext).
Verified 2026-09-09. Fields reading “not published” are exactly that — we do not estimate a figure a vendor withholds.
The counterparty
Public European company with two decades of hosting behind it. Low.
A multi-year GPU commitment is a credit decision wearing a cloud contract. This is the section no benchmark covers and the one that decides what happens to your workload in 2028.
The catch
Support experience is the recurring complaint, not the hardware.
The economics
Low egress is the structural advantage. For workloads that move data, that line beats the GPU line.
No rate is quoted on this page on purpose. Published list prices at this layer move weekly and essentially nobody signing a real contract pays them. Dated, sourced figures live in the GPU cost calculator, where the cheapest and dearest published on-demand price for the identical H100 sit 5.6× apart.
The layers underneath this one
Whatever you rent here is a chip in a building that needs power. In 2026 megawatts, not silicon, are the binding constraint on the whole industry — a frontier rack draws 120–200 kW against a 2026 average near 27 kW, and the US interconnection queue exceeds 2,600 GW.
Layer 2 — Silicon · Layer 1 — Energy · The interconnection queue · Tokens per watt
Compared against
- OVHcloud vs Scaleway — European sovereignty from a public host against a telecoms-backed one.Compare with Scaleway