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Civo pricing and limits

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www.civo.com · VPS and cloud
SEPT 2026 audit

Cloud provider built around managed Kubernetes, also selling compute instances, managed databases, object storage, volumes, load balancers and NVIDIA GPUs, plus private cloud.

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Entry paid plan$5.43/month ($0.007440/hour) for the xSmall Standard compute instance: 1 core, 1 GB RAM, 25GB NVMe, with free and unlimited data transfer. A standing hourly list price in US dollars; no introductory or promotional rate. The smallest Kubernetes node (Standard Extra Small: 1 GB, 1 core, 30GB NVMe) costs the same $5.43/month, and the Kubernetes control plane is free, so a one-node cluster is $5.43/month.
Regions4 public regions: London (LON1), Frankfurt (FRA1), New York (NYC1) and Mumbai (MUM1). CPU Kubernetes, CPU Compute, object stores, volumes and databases are available in all four; GPU Kubernetes and GPU Compute only in LON1.
Free tierNo — A one-off $250 introductory credit, not an ongoing free plan.
CategoryVPS and cloud

Reviewed by Palash BagchiUpdated 27 criteria comparedSources last checked

Civo pricing at a glance

Entry paid plan
$5.43/month ($0.007440/hour) for the xSmall Standard compute instance: 1 core, 1 GB RAM, 25GB NVMe, with free and unlimited data transfer source ↗
Pricing model
Pay as you go by the hour: usage is billed hourly, rounded up to the next full hour, and invoiced on the first of each month for the… source ↗
What the free plan includes
$250 of introductory credit, usable on any Civo service, claimed by adding a card within 21 days of signing up source ↗
Egress over allowance
Free: Civo charges nothing for egress or ingress, so there is no per-GB overage price source ↗
When you exceed a cap
No overage: data transfer is sold as free and unlimited, with no egress or ingress fees or limits, so there is nothing to bill or throttle… source ↗

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Civo plans and prices

Standard compute instancesCivo's Standard compute instances (virtual machines), in US dollars excluding VAT. Civo lists CPU as cores. Usage is billed by the hour, rounded up to the next full hour; the monthly figure is Civo's illustrative 730-hour month, and there is no introductory or promotional rate. Data transfer is free and unlimited, with no ingress or egress fees, so the table carries no transfer allowance. Kubernetes nodes are not a separate price list in effect: the Standard Kubernetes nodes with the same RAM and cores (Extra Small to Large, 1-8 GB) are priced identically per hour and per month ($5.43 to $43.45), but come with different NVMe disks (30GB, 40GB, 50GB and 60GB against the instances' 25GB, 25GB, 50GB and 100GB), and the Kubernetes control plane is free. Performance, CPU Optimized and RAM Optimized instance lines and GPU instances are priced separately and left out.
PlanvCPURAMDiskTransferPrice
xSmall11 GB25GB NVMeFree, unlimited$5.43 a month ($0.007440 an hour)
Small12 GB25GB NVMeFree, unlimited$10.86 a month ($0.014881 an hour)
Medium24 GB50GB NVMeFree, unlimited$21.73 a month ($0.029762 an hour)
Large48 GB100GB NVMeFree, unlimited$43.45 a month ($0.059524 an hour)
Extra Large616 GB150GB NVMeFree, unlimited$86.91 a month ($0.119048 an hour)
2X Large832 GB200GB NVMeFree, unlimited$173.81 a month ($0.238095 an hour)

Civo Prices - Transparent Cloud Pricing - Civo.com · read · every row quoted from this page

01.Evaluation guide

Who it suits

Small managed Kubernetes clusters and instances billed by the hour, with a free control plane and free, unlimited data transfer: nodes and instances from $5.43 a month, a 99.95% SLA, and $250 of starting credit.

Consider something else if…

You need many regions or documented backups: Civo has four public regions (London, Frankfurt, New York, Mumbai), instance backups are documented only for private regions, and its SOC 2 and ISO 27001 claims name no report type or certificate.

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Civo pricing

8 criteria
Free tierNo — A one-off $250 introductory credit, not an ongoing free plan.
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Kind of free offerFree credit
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What the free plan includes$250 of introductory credit, usable on any Civo service, claimed by adding a card within 21 days of signing up. The FAQ says it is valid for a month from when it is applied, and elsewhere until the end of the month following its application; expired credit is lost.
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  • Civo Frequently Asked Questions | Civo Documentation ↗

    “In order to claim your $250 free credit, you must add a valid credit/debit card to your account within 21 days of signing up to Civo. This credit can be used for any Civo services, from Kubernetes clusters to individual virtual machine instances. [...] The introductory credit is valid until the end of the month following its application to your account.”

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Credit card to startYes — Prepaid and virtual cards are not accepted, and each card can claim the credit once.
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Entry paid plan$5.43/month ($0.007440/hour) for the xSmall Standard compute instance: 1 core, 1 GB RAM, 25GB NVMe, with free and unlimited data transfer. A standing hourly list price in US dollars; no introductory or promotional rate. The smallest Kubernetes node (Standard Extra Small: 1 GB, 1 core, 30GB NVMe) costs the same $5.43/month, and the Kubernetes control plane is free, so a one-node cluster is $5.43/month.
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  • Civo Prices - Transparent Cloud Pricing - Civo.com ↗

    “Civo Kubernetes provides all of the core components of the control plane for free [...] Extra Small 1 GB 1 core 30GB NVMe FREE $0.007440 per hour $5.43 per month [...] Civo compute instance pricing Size RAM CPU Storage Data Transfer Price xSmall 1 GB 1 core 25GB NVMe FREE $0.007440 per hour $5.43 per month”

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Pricing modelPay as you go by the hour: usage is billed hourly, rounded up to the next full hour, and invoiced on the first of each month for the previous month. Listed monthly prices assume an average 730-hour month. Stopped instances and clusters are billed as if running. Prices are in US dollars, excluding VAT. For Kubernetes only worker nodes and add-ons are charged; the control plane is free.
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  • Understanding Civo's Billing Process | Civo Documentation ↗

    “Services are billed hourly, rounded up to the nearest full hour, for each hour used in a calendar month, and at the rates listed on our Pricing page [...] Monthly prices listed are illustrative examples using an "average month" of 730 hours [...] All our prices are charged in US dollars and are exclusive of VAT (where applicable).”

    Read 2026-09-27 · official docs · Report a correction

Egress over allowanceFree: Civo charges nothing for egress or ingress, so there is no per-GB overage price.
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When you exceed a capNo overage: data transfer is sold as free and unlimited, with no egress or ingress fees or limits, so there is nothing to bill or throttle past an allowance.
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Limits

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Storage (entry plan)25GB of NVMe storage on the cheapest compute instance, xSmall ($5.43/month, 1 GB RAM). The equivalent Kubernetes node, Extra Small, has 30GB.
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Memory (entry plan)1 GB on the cheapest compute instance, xSmall ($5.43/month, 1 core, 25GB NVMe).
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Included bandwidthUnlimited and free: Civo charges no egress or ingress fees and sets no transfer limit on compute instances, Kubernetes nodes or load balancers.
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Deployment

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ContainersSupported — Managed Kubernetes (K3s or Talos) with a free control plane that Civo says has built-in high availability
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Infrastructure

6 criteria
Persistent storageSupported
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Managed databasesSupported
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  • Databases | Civo Documentation ↗

    “Civo Database is a top-tier managed database service that offers optimized performance and reliability at an affordable price. With support for PostgreSQL 17, automatic backups, high-availability options, and 24/7 support”

    Read 2026-09-27 · official docs · Report a correction

Scales to zeroNot supported
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AutoscalingLimited — Kubernetes node pools only, via the cluster autoscaler Marketplace app (1 to 10 nodes by default)
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  • Scaling a Civo Kubernetes Cluster's Nodes | Civo Documentation ↗

    “The Civo cluster autoscaler is an implementation of the Kubernetes autoscaler that adjusts the number of nodes in a cluster down or up based on specific conditions [...] By default, the autoscaler is configured to scale between 1 and 10 nodes, but you can edit the configuration to fit your use case.”

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Regions4 public regions: London (LON1), Frankfurt (FRA1), New York (NYC1) and Mumbai (MUM1). CPU Kubernetes, CPU Compute, object stores, volumes and databases are available in all four; GPU Kubernetes and GPU Compute only in LON1.
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Uptime SLA99.95% monthly uptime for all Civo public and private cloud services. Missing it earns service credits of 10% (99.0% to under 99.95%), 40% (95.0% to under 99.0%) or 100% (under 95.0%) of the month's fees for the affected services, claimed within 30 days.
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Data

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Backup retentionDocumented only for CivoStack Enterprise Private Regions: instance snapshots on demand, and snapshot schedules (minimum interval 10 minutes) that keep at most 10 snapshots per resource, deleting the oldest. No instance backup product is described for the public cloud, and Civo's terms make the backup policy for instances the customer's responsibility.
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Support

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Support on entry paid plan24/7 ticket support, plus a community Slack of over 30,000 developers and access to cloud-native specialists. No paid support tiers are listed.
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Compliance

7 criteria
SOC 2Civo says its infrastructure is certified with SOC 2. The page names no report type (Type I or II) and no way to obtain the report.
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ISO 27001Civo says its infrastructure is certified with ISO 27001. No certificate or scope is linked from the page.
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GDPR / data residencyCivo sells its UK region as a UK sovereign cloud where data stays in the UK under UK law, including the UK GDPR and the Data Protection Act 2018. It also runs an EU region in Frankfurt (FRA1).
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Encryption at restCivo's government page says storage is encrypted by default, alongside isolated tenant networking. It gives no algorithm or scope beyond that.
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Role-based access controlTeams: an account owner groups users into teams and grants pre-defined roles (such as Technical Administrator, which gives access to cloud resources without billing) or custom roles built from individual permissions, including view-only.
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  • Teams management | Civo Documentation ↗

    “Civo accounts support multiple users having access to various resources and access levels. [...] If you needed more granularity than the pre-defined Roles that we just assigned, there is a way for you to give individual permissions to users, or create entirely new roles.”

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Private networking / VPCPrivate networks isolate instances and Kubernetes clusters within a region; resources in the same network route to each other internally, and each region gets a Default network.
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Dedicated infrastructurePrivate cloud only: private-cloud workloads can run on dedicated hardware, isolated in hardware-level enclaves (Intel SGX). Public compute instances and Kubernetes nodes are not described as dedicated.
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Civo pricing questions

How much does Civo cost?

$5.43/month ($0.007440/hour) for the xSmall Standard compute instance: 1 core, 1 GB RAM, 25GB NVMe, with free and unlimited data transfer. A standing hourly list price in US dollars; no introductory or promotional rate. The smallest Kubernetes node (Standard Extra Small: 1 GB, 1 core, 30GB NVMe) costs the same $5.43/month, and the Kubernetes control plane is free, so a one-node cluster is $5.43/month.

Civo Prices - Transparent Cloud Pricing - Civo.com · read

How does Civo charge?

Pay as you go by the hour: usage is billed hourly, rounded up to the next full hour, and invoiced on the first of each month for the previous month. Listed monthly prices assume an average 730-hour month. Stopped instances and clusters are billed as if running. Prices are in US dollars, excluding VAT. For Kubernetes only worker nodes and add-ons are charged; the control plane is free.

Understanding Civo's Billing Process | Civo Documentation · read

Does Civo have a free tier?

No free tier; the free offer is a free credit.

Civo Frequently Asked Questions | Civo Documentation · read

Do you need a credit card to start on Civo?

Yes — Prepaid and virtual cards are not accepted, and each card can claim the credit once.

Civo Frequently Asked Questions | Civo Documentation · read

What happens if you exceed Civo's limits?

No overage: data transfer is sold as free and unlimited, with no egress or ingress fees or limits, so there is nothing to bill or throttle past an allowance.

Civo Prices - Transparent Cloud Pricing - Civo.com · read

How much does Civo charge for egress?

Free: Civo charges nothing for egress or ingress, so there is no per-GB overage price.

Civo Prices - Transparent Cloud Pricing - Civo.com · read

What uptime does Civo guarantee?

99.95% monthly uptime for all Civo public and private cloud services. Missing it earns service credits of 10% (99.0% to under 99.95%), 40% (95.0% to under 99.0%) or 100% (under 95.0%) of the month's fees for the affected services, claimed within 30 days.

Service level agreement (SLA) - Civo.com · read

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