CoreWeave vs MWS Cloud: Complete Comparison (2026)

Why choose CoreWeave

• Higher Scalability score (9/10 vs 6/10)
• Higher Analytics score (6/10 vs 4/10)
• Better fit for developers (7/10 vs 5/10)

Why choose MWS Cloud

• Includes Content Delivery Network, which CoreWeave lacks
• Includes Managed Databases, which CoreWeave lacks

CoreWeave

Pros

• Free internet egress and internal data transfer, which lowers the cost of moving large datasets and model checkpoints.
• Large inventory of current NVIDIA hardware, from L40S to GB200 NVL72, with InfiniBand for multi-node training.
• Spot rates are well below on-demand rates, for example $19.71 versus $49.24 per hour for an 8-GPU H100 node, and committed discounts reach up to 60%.
• The CKS control plane and SUNK Slurm scheduler are free, so you pay only for compute.
• A Terraform and OpenTofu provider manages clusters, VPCs, storage, and inference as code.

Cons

• No free tier or trial credits, and minimum spend is reported to be high even for light use.
• No managed databases, serverless functions, or CDN, so a second cloud is often needed.
• Regions are concentrated in North America and Europe, with limited Asia-Pacific coverage.
• The best pricing usually requires multi-year contracts and an enterprise sales process.
• Few public user reviews are available on G2 or Gartner to validate claims.

MWS Cloud

Pros

• It holds Russian compliance certifications, including 152-FZ at UZ-1, GOST R 57580, and PCI DSS 4.0.1.
• It runs on MTS's own data centers and network, with Tier III facilities and a stated 99.95% availability.
• The catalog is broad: managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, ClickHouse, Kafka, Valkey and Kubernetes, plus Object Storage and a CDN.
• Infrastructure can be automated through the API, CLI and Terraform as well as the web console.
• Security services include Anti-DDoS, WAF, KMS, Secret Manager and SOC.

Cons

• A 2025 Habr review found that most platform services were in preview, and Compute had no SLA.
• At review time, onboarding meant a form and a manual approval that could take up to 10 days, and the CDN was available only on request.
• The same review found no NAT gateway, only one storage class, and no automatic issuance of SSL certificates.
• Prices are not shown on the website, and one user comment called VM prices much higher than those of budget VPS hosts.
• Billing at review time had no budget alerts or forecasting.