Listed in a European region, but it will not start

A provider does not have one pool of GPUs. It has a pool at each site. The card can be free in one country and gone in the next. The price page shows one figure for both.

So a check of availability is a check of one GPU in one place on one day.

The newest cards reach a few sites first, and a provider’s first sites are not always in Europe. A catalogue can show a card with a price while its European regions do not yet hold one.

Filter by region before you read the catalogue. What the provider offers somewhere is not what it offers here.

A large cloud can give a new account a quota of zero for big GPU machines, and it sets that quota for each region. A raise in one region does not carry to another.

Some providers sell the newest cards only after a sales call, an approval or a place on a waitlist. Some open one region to everyone and hold another for approved customers. The listing looks the same in both.

Every listing is marked Start now, No GPUs, Gated, Quota or Not checked, with the date. Only a live read of the provider’s stock earns Start now. A provider whose page says self-serve, with no stock to read, stays Not checked.

A label records the check that was made. If your region differs from the one checked, run the check again there.

Open the console. Choose the European region you need and the GPU you want. Try to start the smallest machine. Write down what happened, in the provider’s words, and the date.

If it fails, try the next European region your data rules allow before you try the next provider.

If no rule fixes the country, take the European region that starts. If a rule does, the wait is part of the price. On 12 Nov 2026, 10 providers listed a B200, from $3.50 to $14.24 per GPU-hour, and the table shows which could be started.

When Runcrate’s feed lists a machine of a GPU, the label is Start now and the price is the feed’s price. When it lists none, the label is Out right now, with the time it was last in stock. Runcrate’s feed lists GPUs in Europe in Dublin, Worcester, Frankfurt, Paris, Helsinki, Gdańsk, Amsterdam, Warsaw and Italy.

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