# Gcore

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/cdn/gcore/

Gcore sells a CDN, edge cloud virtual machines, AI inference on NVIDIA GPUs and DDoS protection; this record covers Gcore CDN, a pay-as-you-go content delivery network.

## Who it suits

A pay-as-you-go CDN with 1 TB of traffic a month free, then €0.01 per GB, on 210+ PoPs across six continents, with a 99.99% uptime SLA and basic L3/L4 DDoS protection on the free plan.

Consider something else if You need audited assurance or per-region delivery pricing: SOC 2 is Type 1 only, the PCI certificate names no products, no regional rate split is printed, and a direct origin connection is Enterprise-only.

## iScore

69 / 100 (80% interval 59–78), rank 3 of 7 in cdn — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every cdn peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/cdn/gcore/alternatives/

- Price: 71 (54–88), weight 39%, 4 of 6 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: free_expires, minimum_paid_price
- Capacity and limits: 55 (32–77), weight 10%, 1 of 1 criteria scored
- Trust and compliance: 75 (69–80), weight 23%, 10 of 12 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: customer_managed_keys, hipaa_eligible
- Evidence: 99 (99–99), weight 11%, 4 of 4 criteria scored
- Adoption: 43 (4–83), weight 17%, 0 of 2 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: Yes ([source](https://gcore.com/pricing/edge-network), read 2026-09-27)
- Kind of free offer: Free tier ([source](https://gcore.com/pricing/edge-network), read 2026-09-27)
- What the free plan includes: On the €0/month PAYG CDN plan: 1 TB of traffic and 10k image optimizations a month, requests up to 1 billion, and Basic L3/L4 DDoS protection; usage beyond that is billed. ([source](https://gcore.com/pricing/edge-network), read 2026-09-27)
- Credit card to start: No ([source](https://gcore.com/cdn), read 2026-09-27)
- Entry paid plan: No plan fee: the PAYG CDN plan is €0/month (the page's USD view shows $0/mo) and bills only overage past the included 1 TB of traffic a month, from €0.01 per GB. Enterprise is custom-priced. Prices exclude VAT. ([source](https://gcore.com/pricing/edge-network), read 2026-09-27)
- Pricing model: Usage-based on top of a plan: each CDN plan has a one-month traffic limit and a request limit, and traffic and request overage past them is billed. Combined overage is charged each time it reaches €50 or $60 (by account currency); smaller amounts are billed with the next month's plan fee on the 2nd. ([source](https://docs.gcore.com/cdn/how-the-cdn-service-and-its-additional-options-are-billed), read 2026-09-27)
- Egress over allowance: $0.011 per GB in the pricing page's USD view (€0.01 per GB in its default EUR view) for traffic beyond the 1 TB a month included on the PAYG CDN plan, one rate with no regional split printed. Gcore's own USD price, not a conversion; excludes VAT; Enterprise rates are custom. ([source](https://gcore.com/pricing/edge-network), read 2026-09-27)

### Infrastructure

- Regions: Six continents, with 210+ PoPs. Gcore's own continental description of the CDN footprint, not cloud-style deployment regions; no per-continent PoP count is given on the CDN page. ([source](https://gcore.com/cdn), read 2026-09-27)
- Uptime SLA: 99.99% uptime guarantee for the CDN, with service credits of 5% of the monthly CDN fee at 99.99%-99.9%, 10% at 99.89%-99.0% and 15% below 99.0%. Downtime counts only after 15 consecutive minutes of complete unavailability. ([source](https://gcore.com/legal?tab=service_level), read 2026-09-27)

### CDN

- Points of presence: 210+ PoPs across six continents, with 200+ Tbps of network capacity. ([source](https://gcore.com/cdn), read 2026-09-27)
- Image optimization: Image optimization (Image Stack) on the PAYG CDN plan: 10k optimizations a month included, then €1 per 10K ($1.1 in the page's USD view), excluding VAT. ([source](https://gcore.com/pricing/edge-network), read 2026-09-27)

### Support

- Support on entry paid plan: 24/7 email and chat support on the PAYG CDN plan; Enterprise adds phone. ([source](https://gcore.com/pricing/edge-network), read 2026-09-27)

### Compliance

- SOC 2: SOC 2 Type 1 (a point-in-time design attestation, not Type 2), listed under Compliance in Gcore's Trust Center with a SOC 2 Type 1 report among its resources. ([source](https://trustcentre.gcore.com/), read 2026-09-27)
- ISO 27001: ISO 27001:2022, listed under Compliance in Gcore's Trust Center with the certificate among its resources. ([source](https://trustcentre.gcore.com/), read 2026-09-27)
- GDPR / data residency: States compliance with all GDPR requirements, for personal data customers store and for customer data. A compliance statement; no CDN region-pinning or data-residency option is described on the page. ([source](https://gcore.com/secure-infrastructure), read 2026-09-27)
- PCI DSS: PCI DSS 4.0.1 certificate listed in Gcore's Trust Center. The Trust Center does not say which Gcore products it covers. ([source](https://trustcentre.gcore.com/), read 2026-09-27)
- Encryption at rest: Cryptographic protection that encrypts databases, disks and files is listed among Gcore's data-protection measures. Platform-wide statement with no algorithm named; not specific to the CDN cache. ([source](https://gcore.com/secure-infrastructure), read 2026-09-27)
- Role-based access control: Customer Portal roles govern CDN access: Administrators, Engineers, Purge and Prefetch only (API+Web), Purge and Prefetch only (API), and Users. Roles do not apply to Managed DNS, Object Storage or WAAP. ([source](https://docs.gcore.com/account-settings/users/about-users), read 2026-09-27)
- Private networking / VPC: Direct connection with the origin server (PNI) is on demand on the Enterprise CDN plan; the PAYG column marks it as not included. ([source](https://gcore.com/pricing/edge-network), read 2026-09-27)
- Dedicated infrastructure: Dedicated IP: Gcore-owned addresses (one IP or a subnet) reserved for one account instead of shared anycast addresses, a paid CDN add-on set up manually by Gcore. BYOIP announces customer-owned prefixes. ([source](https://docs.gcore.com/cdn/ip-configuration-options/dedicated-ip), read 2026-09-27)