OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes vs Google Kubernetes Engine
A detailed comparison to help you choose between OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes and Google Kubernetes Engine.
Quick Verdict
3.9/5
OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes
0 reviews
4.1/5
Google Kubernetes Engine
0 reviews
Google Kubernetes Engine is rated higher (4.1 vs 3.9). managed K8s clusters in all OVHcloud Public Cloud regions (Europe, North America, Asia-Pacific) GKE provides hosted Kubernetes clusters on Google Cloud infrastructure. Deploy, manage, and scale containerized applications with built-in monitoring, security, and automatic node management.
OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes EU managed Kubernetes from OVH at low cost | Google Kubernetes Engine Managed Kubernetes on Google Cloud with automated scaling and updates | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.9 (0 reviews) | 4.1 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | freemium | pay-as-you-go |
| Starting price | Free tier available | Free tier available |
| Best for | EU-focused teams that want managed Kubernetes economics without control-plane fees and are comfortable driving clusters through Terraform and kubectl. | Teams standardizing on Kubernetes within Google Cloud: Autopilot for those without platform engineers, Standard for node-level control and well-packed cost-optimized clusters. |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ✓ | |
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ||
| Tags | ||
| Tags | managed optionhourly billingeu datacentergdpr compliantapi access | free tiermanaged optionapi accesseu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenterterraform provider |
| Visit OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes → | Visit Google Kubernetes Engine → | |
OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes
Pros
- + Permanently free managed control plane on the Free plan (up to 100 nodes)
- + Standard plan adds dedicated multi-AZ control plane for $0.099/hour per cluster
- + Official Terraform/Pulumi support, autoscaling, OIDC, vRack private networking
- + EU data residency with regions in France, Germany, UK and Poland
- + $200 Public Cloud trial credit covers roughly a month of real worker nodes
Cons
- - Free plan SLA is 99.5% with no service credits; Standard 99.99% promised only after beta
- - Control panel is dense and less polished than GKE or DigitalOcean
- - Ticket-based support on standard tiers; no multi-cluster management in-product
- - etcd quota (400 MiB free / 8 GiB standard) limits CRD-heavy operator usage
Google Kubernetes Engine
Pros
- + Credit-backed, specific SLA: 99.95% regional/Autopilot control plane, 99.9% for multi-zone Autopilot pods
- + Autopilot removes node management and bills per pod request with per-second granularity
- + Kubernetes from Kubernetes' creator — release channels, Workload Identity, native GCP service integration
- + GKE free tier covers one cluster's $74.40 monthly management fee
- + Mature ecosystem: Terraform provider, gcloud, GitOps add-ons, deep hiring and training base
Cons
- - $0.10/cluster-hour fee plus compute, disks, LBs, and egress — expensive for small workloads
- - Oversized pod requests are billed at full rate in Autopilot; billing model has many interacting dimensions
- - SLA covers the control plane only — workload availability is your responsibility
- - Regional clusters' management fee is excluded from the free tier credit; GKE CUDs no longer purchasable for Autopilot
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