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What is GCore Load Balancer

Gcore Load Balancer is a managed load balancing service offered as part of Gcore’s cloud platform to distribute inbound traffic across multiple backends. It is used by teams running web applications and APIs that need high availability, health checks, and traffic management without operating their own load balancer infrastructure. The service typically fits cloud-native deployments where load balancers are provisioned and managed through a provider console and APIs. It is positioned as an infrastructure service integrated with Gcore’s compute and networking stack rather than a standalone software appliance.

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Managed provisioning and operations

The product is delivered as a managed service, reducing the need to install, patch, and operate load balancer software. This can simplify day-2 operations such as lifecycle management and routine maintenance. It is well-suited to teams that prefer provider-managed infrastructure components over self-hosted load balancers.

Cloud platform integration

Gcore Load Balancer is designed to work within Gcore’s cloud environment, typically integrating with the provider’s compute instances and networking constructs. This can streamline setup for common patterns like distributing traffic to multiple instances and using provider-native health checks. For organizations already using the same cloud platform, it can reduce integration work compared with deploying independent load balancing software.

API-driven configuration options

As a cloud service, it commonly supports programmatic provisioning and configuration through APIs in addition to a web console. This enables infrastructure-as-code workflows and repeatable environment creation. It also supports operational automation such as updating backend pools as instances scale.

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Provider lock-in considerations

Because it is a managed service tied to a specific cloud platform, portability to other environments is limited compared with self-managed load balancer software. Organizations pursuing multi-cloud or hybrid standardization may need additional abstraction layers. Migrating configurations and operational practices can require rework if moving away from the provider.

Less control than self-managed

Managed load balancers typically expose a defined set of features and tunables rather than full access to underlying configuration. Advanced traffic policies, custom modules, or deep protocol tuning may not be available to the same extent as software you operate directly. This can matter for specialized routing, observability hooks, or non-standard deployment requirements.

Feature depth varies by region

Capabilities and service availability can vary by cloud region and by the provider’s current platform maturity. Teams may need to validate support for required protocols, logging/metrics integrations, and SLA terms in the regions they operate. This can add evaluation effort compared with widely deployed, environment-agnostic load balancing software.

Plan & Pricing

Pricing model: Pay-as-you-go (usage-based) Free tier/trial: See notes below How pricing is published: Gcore does not show a public fixed tier table for "Load Balancer" on the public pricing pages. Official pricing for Load Balancers is exposed via the vendor Cloud Pricing API / Cloud calculator and is returned per-region and per-flavor (per-hour and per-month breakdowns). The pricing must be previewed using the API endpoint: POST /cloud/v2/pricing/{project_id}/{region_id}/loadbalancers (or the v1 equivalent) and requires project_id/region_id (and API key) to retrieve actual numeric rates for a given account/region. The API response returns currency_code and per_hour / per_month breakdowns (flavor, external_ip, floating_ip, etc.).

Example / notes (from official API docs; illustrative only): The API response schema includes fields such as currency_code and per_hour (external_ip, flavor, floating_ip) and per_month (external_ip, flavor, floating_ip). The docs show example keys like price_per_hour and price_per_month in example responses, but those are example values in the API documentation and not a public price list.

Summary: No public, static tiered pricing table for Gcore Load Balancer is published on the vendor website; prices are determined per-region/per-flavor and must be retrieved via the official Cloud Pricing API or from the customer Cloud console.

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Gcore
Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2014
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https://gcore.com/
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https://www.linkedin.com/company/g-core-labs/

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