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Google Cloud vs Vultr: services, regions and GPUs
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Direct answer
Choosing between Google Cloud and Vultr depends first on location, required services and GPU access. 6 documented capabilities are only available on Google Cloud and 2 only on Vultr. Measured performance is covered on the benchmark pages.
Executive summary
Google Cloud and Vultr document 22 and 18 of the same 26 criteria respectively, with 16 capabilities in common. Google Cloud bills per-second and Vultr bills per-hour. Google Cloud has an announced Türkiye region; Vultr has no infrastructure in Türkiye. Google Cloud offers H100, H200; Vultr offers H100, L40S.
Key findings
- 01 Capabilities documented only by Google Cloud: Per-second or per-minute billing, Volume snapshots, Virtual router with NAT, Control-plane audit logging, User identity attribution in audit events, NVIDIA H200 instances.
- 02 Capabilities documented only by Vultr: S3-compatible object storage, NVIDIA L40S instances.
Overview
| Google Cloud | Vultr | |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | Mountain View, United States | West Palm Beach, United States |
| Operator | Google LLC | The Constant Company, LLC |
| Regions | Global regions; a Türkiye region has been announced (with Turkcell) but is not yet open. | Cloud locations on six continents, including several in Europe; none in Türkiye. |
| Billing model | Per second — Compute Engine VMs are billed per second with a one-minute minimum; sustained- and committed-use discounts apply to eligible machine types. | Per hour — Hourly billing. GPU plans bill on a 730-hour month (actual calendar hours); standard compute instances cap monthly billing at 672 hours. |
| Documented capabilities | 22 / 26 | 18 / 26 |
| Technologies | Kubernetes (GKE), Terraform, Cloud Storage XML API | Kubernetes (VKE), S3 API, Terraform |
Availability and regions
Google Cloud
- Frankfurt europe-west3 Generally available
- Türkiye (announced) turkiye-announced Coming soon
Vultr
- Frankfurt fra Generally available
- Amsterdam ams Generally available
Features
| Criterion | Google Cloud | Vultr |
|---|---|---|
| Data residency | ||
| Infrastructure located in Türkiye Generally available compute and storage capacity physically located in Türkiye (full region or local zone). | Planned Announced November 2025; not yet open. | No |
| Compute & GPU | ||
| Virtual machine instances Self-service virtual machines with selectable CPU/RAM profiles. | Yes | Yes |
| Per-second or per-minute billing Standard compute billed at per-second or per-minute granularity rather than per started hour. | Yes Per-second with a one-minute minimum. | No Hourly billing. |
| Dedicated / single-tenant resources Dedicated hosts, bare metal or organisation-dedicated cloud capacity. | Yes Sole-tenant nodes. | Yes Bare Metal. |
| NVIDIA H100 instances On-demand or reservable instances with NVIDIA H100 GPUs. | Yes | Yes |
| NVIDIA H200 instances On-demand or reservable instances with NVIDIA H200 GPUs. | Yes | Unverified |
| NVIDIA L40S instances On-demand or reservable instances with NVIDIA L40S GPUs. | No | Yes |
| Platform & automation | ||
| API and Terraform automation Documented API plus an available Terraform provider for infrastructure as code. | Yes | Yes |
| Open-source cloud stack (OpenStack-based) The provider publicly states that its IaaS control plane is built on OpenStack or an equivalent open-source stack. | No | No |
| Kubernetes | ||
| Managed Kubernetes Provider-operated Kubernetes control plane. | Yes | Yes |
| Kubernetes node autoscaling Worker node count scales automatically within configured limits. | Yes | Yes |
| Kubernetes LoadBalancer integration Services of type LoadBalancer provision a provider load balancer automatically. | Yes | Yes |
| Kubernetes storage classes (CSI) Persistent volumes provisioned dynamically through a provider storage class. | Yes | Yes |
| Storage & data | ||
| Block storage volumes Persistent, attachable and expandable block volumes. | Yes | Yes |
| Volume snapshots Point-in-time snapshots of block volumes. | Yes | Unverified Instance snapshots are available; block-volume snapshots not assessed. |
| S3-compatible object storage Object storage reachable through the S3 API or an S3-compatible API. | Partial XML API interoperability with HMAC keys; not full S3 API parity. | Yes |
| Managed backup service Scheduled backup and restore for instances or volumes managed by the provider. | Yes | Yes |
| Managed database Provider-operated relational database service. | Yes | Yes |
| Networking | ||
| L4 load balancer (TCP/UDP) Transport-layer load balancing. | Yes | Yes |
| L7 load balancer (HTTP/HTTPS) Application-layer load balancing with HTTP health checks. | Yes | Yes |
| Reassignable static public IP Static public addresses that can be moved between resources (Floating/Reserved/Elastic IP). | Yes Static external IP addresses. | Yes Reserved IPs. |
| Private networks / VPC Isolated tenant networks with custom CIDR ranges. | Yes | Yes |
| Virtual router with NAT Managed router or NAT gateway for egress and inter-subnet routing, including static routes. | Yes Cloud Router and Cloud NAT. | Unverified |
| Security groups / cloud firewall Stateful, API-managed network access rules. | Yes VPC firewall rules and policies. | Yes Firewall groups. |
| Security & auditing | ||
| Control-plane audit logging A provider service that records management (API/console) operations against cloud resources. | Yes Cloud Audit Logs. | Unverified |
| User identity attribution in audit events Each audit event identifies the authenticated principal that performed the operation. | Yes | Unverified |
Pricing and GPUs
| Provider | NVIDIA H100 | NVIDIA H200 | NVIDIA L40S | Türkiye infrastructure |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Google Cloud | Generally available A3 High / A3 Mega Up to 8 H100 GPUs per VM; zone availability varies. | Generally available A3 Ultra 8 H200 GPUs per VM; zone availability varies. | Not offered | Announced |
| Vultr | Generally available Cloud GPU — NVIDIA HGX H100 $2.300 / GPU-h 8× H100 80 GB SXM (640 GB GPU RAM, 216 vCPU, 1,914 GB RAM). | Unverified Not listed on the public pricing page H200 was not listed on the Vultr pricing page at the last review date. | Generally available Cloud GPU — NVIDIA L40S $1.671 / GPU-h 1, 2, 4 or 8× L40S 48 GB; 1× plan with 16 vCPU and 180 GB RAM. | No |
Prices are shown in the currency each provider publishes; no exchange-rate conversion is applied.
Benchmarks
Sources
- [1] New Google Cloud region coming to Türkiye — Google Cloud Official documentation accessed:
- [2] GPU locations — Compute Engine — Google Cloud Official documentation accessed:
- [3] Cloud Audit Logs overview — Google Cloud Official documentation accessed:
- [4] Vultr pricing — Vultr Official documentation accessed:
- [5] How are GPU products billed differently? — Vultr Official documentation accessed:
- [6] NVIDIA HGX H100 on Vultr — Vultr Official documentation accessed:
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