Latency from European regions

Every request travels from the user to the machine and back. The farther the machine, the longer the trip. Routing adds to it, since traffic does not travel in a straight line.

For a model that takes seconds to answer, travel time is a small part of the wait. For speech, live video or an agent that makes many short calls in a row, it adds up.

The large step is the ocean. A user in Europe calling a GPU in North America or Asia pays for the crossing on every request. Moving the GPU to any European country removes most of that.

This is the common reason to look for a GPU cloud in Europe when no law requires it: the users are here.

Inside Europe distances are shorter, and the difference between two neighbouring countries is small for most uses. The far north, the south and the east are farther from the centre, and that can show in voice or other live work.

What matters more is the trip between the GPU and your data. If your database or object store is in one country, a GPU in the same place saves a hop on every request.

Training, batch inference and evaluation wait on the GPU, not the network. For those jobs, take the European region that has stock, and let the location rules of your data decide the country.

Start the smallest machine in the region. Send it requests from where your users are, at the time of day they are active. Record the time to connect and the time to the first byte of the answer.

Do it for two regions. The difference between them is the only latency figure that applies to you. Published figures describe someone else’s path.

The nearest region is no use without stock. The newest cards sit in few places. A European region one country over that can start a GPU today beats a nearer one that cannot. On 12 Nov 2026, 15 providers listed an on-demand H200 price, and the H200 price table here shows which could be started.

Runcrate’s feed states the places each GPU is listed, and a GPU launches in about four minutes, so testing a location costs little. Billing is by the second on most GPUs. Runcrate’s feed lists GPUs in Europe in Dublin, Worcester, Frankfurt, Paris, Helsinki, Gdańsk, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Italy.

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