Civo
British Kubernetes-first cloud that charges for worker nodes only, with control planes included and data transfer unmetered.
The control plane is free. Really.
Civo is a British cloud built around Kubernetes rather than one that added it later. Control-plane components are not charged for, the bill covers worker nodes and add-ons only, and data transfer in and out is unmetered — three decisions that between them remove most of what makes a managed-Kubernetes invoice hard to predict in advance.
Beyond clusters it sells compute instances, S3-compatible object storage, persistent volumes, load balancers, managed PostgreSQL and GPU capacity. Sovereign private-cloud arrangements are offered for the United Kingdom and India, and the platform is certified against the usual enterprise audit standards. New accounts start on time-limited credit rather than a standing free allowance.
Identity
Deployment
- Deployment
- Control panel, Container image
Regions and law
- Regions
- United Kingdom, Germany, United States, India2
- Headquarters
- United Kingdom
Other features
- Certifications
- ISO 27001, SOC 2
- Collaboration
- Team members6
Automation
- CLI
- Official
- API
- Public
- Infrastructure as code
- Terraform
Sources
- 2026-09-07: Reach
majestic.com/reports/majestic-million - 2026-08-01: Regions
www.civo.com/docs/overview/regions - 2026-08-01: Starting price, Entry price, Typical ceiling
www.civo.com/pricing - 2026-08-02: Currencies, Exit
www.civo.com/legal/terms - 2026-08-02: Billed, Paid
www.civo.com/docs/account/billing - 2026-08-12: Collaboration
www.civo.com/docs/account/teams - 2026-08-21: Ownership
www.civo.com/blog/thg-ingenuity-investment
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