How we compare, how we buy your servers, and what we put in writing.
This page is for the finance or procurement lead who has to decide whether our offer is the right one. Everything below is written into your term summary, and what we say about other providers comes from their own published pages and announcements, each one cited below.
The short version
- Our prices are published. The calculator on our home page shows the lease rate, the own-it costs and every fee before you speak to us.
- Terms to 72 months, getting cheaper. Lease for 36 to 72 months; from month 37 the rate falls by 20% and stays there.
- You can own the servers. Buy or finance them and they are yours from day one. On a lease, you may buy them at the end of the term at the price set in your lease.
- Every purchase is competitively quoted. We obtain a minimum of three supplier quotes for your specification on the institutional secondary market and confirm it in a statement signed by our founder. Every server is independently benchmarked before we accept it.
- If we stop operating. Your agreement can protect your servers, your access and your money. How.
- Bring a competing quote. We will put it beside ours, line by line, and tell you plainly where theirs is better.
How we compare
Large Canadian providers are building sovereign AI capacity at national scale. Here is what their own published material says, beside what we offer.
| Sovrakeep | TELUS GPU as a Service | Bell AI Fabric | ThinkOn | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| What you get | Dedicated 8-GPU servers for your organization alone, leased, financed or owned | Reserved NVIDIA H200 capacity at a flat monthly rate per GPU [1] | A full-stack AI offering anchored by Bell's fibre network, with GPU clusters through partner BUZZ HPC [2] | Managed cloud infrastructure for the federal Sovereign AI Platform, under contract with Shared Services Canada [4] |
| Published price per GPU-hour | From US$0.98 (A100-class, 72-month lease) to US$1.90 (H100-class, 36-month lease), stepping down 20% from month 37 | From $6.50 for NVIDIA H200, including storage, networking and its AI platform; currency not stated on the page [1] | No price in the announcement [2] | No price in the announcement [4] |
| Term | 36 to 72 months; rate falls 20% from month 37 | 1- or 3-year reserved terms [1] | Not stated; its Cohere contract is three years [3] | Not stated [4] |
| Own the hardware | Yes: buy or finance from day one, or buy at the end of a lease | Not described on the page [1] | Not addressed [2] | Not addressed [4] |
| Hardware | Proven A100- and H100-class generations, competitively quoted and independently benchmarked | NVIDIA H200 [1] | NVIDIA Grace Blackwell in its Cohere deployment [3] | Not named [4] |
The hardware differs: an H200 does more work per hour than an A100- or H100-class GPU, so compare the cost per person over the term, not only the rate per GPU-hour. Our calculator shows that figure for your team; send us any quote and we will work it out on the same basis.
Where they lead: the newest GPU generations, very large deployments and, for ThinkOn, a federal contract. If your workload needs one of those, we will tell you rather than sell you something that does not fit. If it needs dedicated servers your organization controls, at a price you can see today and a cost that falls after year three, that is what we do.
If you lease the servers
Your monthly fee is fixed for the term and does not change with what we pay for the hardware. If prices rise after you sign, that is our risk. The fee covers the servers, Canadian colocation, power, cooling, monitoring and hardware replacement. You receive the benchmark record for every server in your service.
If Sovrakeep stops operating
A six-year agreement with a young company should answer this question in writing. These protections are available in your agreement; your term summary sets out which ones apply and who provides them.
| Protection | What your agreement can include |
|---|---|
| Your servers are named | Your servers listed by serial number in your agreement and used only for it, and a commitment from any lender that finances them to honour your lease and your right to buy. |
| You can take them over | A right, if Sovrakeep becomes insolvent or stops providing service, to buy your leased servers at a price set in your lease or to keep leasing them from the lender. Servers you own or finance are already yours. |
| Service carries on | The facility and our Canadian operations partner named in your term summary, with an arrangement for you to continue with them directly if we cannot. |
| Your access does not depend on us | Administrative credentials for your servers held in escrow and released to you if any of these events happens. Your keys and your data are yours throughout. |
| Your money is protected | Payments made before delivery sit in a lawyer's trust account until the servers ship and pass acceptance, or until we order them on a lease. |
If you own the servers
| Step | What happens | What you receive |
|---|---|---|
| Fixed price | One price per server covers the server and its sourcing, verification, shipping and racking. It is fixed in your term summary, starting from the price published in the calculator. It does not change with what we pay. If supplier prices move beyond the band in your agreement before we buy, you see the new price and decide, or walk away with your money returned. | Your fixed price and band, in writing |
| Quotes | We obtain a minimum of three quotes for your exact specification from suppliers on the institutional secondary market and choose on price, condition, warranty, test history and delivery. | A statement signed by our founder confirming that at least three written quotes were obtained |
| Purchase | You pay the fixed price in your term summary. Your money stays in trust until the servers ship and pass acceptance. | A purchase confirmation |
| Verification | Every server is independently benchmarked, run under load and checked for firmware before we accept it. You do not pay for a server that fails acceptance. | The benchmark and acceptance record for each server |
Our fees, in full
| Fee | Amount | When |
|---|---|---|
| Lease fee | The published rate per GPU-hour for your term, stepping down 20% from month 37 | Monthly |
| Commissioning | $4,500 a server | Once, at commissioning |
| Servers (own) | One fixed price per server, including sourcing, verification, shipping and racking, shown in the calculator | From trust, when the servers pass acceptance |
| Management fee (own) | $2,000 a server a month, minimum $6,000 | Monthly |
| Colocation and power (own) | At cost, on the facility's own invoice | Monthly |
Bring a competing quote
If you have a quote from another provider, send it to hello@sovrakeep.com with "Comparison" in the subject line. We will compare it with ours on the lines that decide the real cost: who owns the hardware during and after the term, the monthly cost before and after month 36, up-front costs, the total over the term, cost per person a month, whether the hardware is dedicated to you, the facility and its certifications, exit terms, failed-part replacement and what happens at the end. You get the comparison in writing. Where the other offer is better for you, we will say so.
What we cannot promise
We cannot promise the lowest price in the market on any given day, and we do not claim to. What we can promise is that our price is published, every purchase is competitively quoted, and a lease gets cheaper after year three.
Sources
Statements about other providers are taken from the pages below, checked 10 November 2026. Providers change their offers; if anything here is out of date, write to hello@sovrakeep.com and we will correct it.
- TELUS, GPU as a Service, product page.
- Bell Canada and BUZZ HPC partner at Bell AI Fabric, BCE news release, 25 March 2026.
- BUZZ HPC closes USD 220 million sovereign AI GPU contract with Bell AI Fabric for Cohere, HIVE Digital Technologies news release, 18 June 2026.
- ThinkOn selected to power Canada's Sovereign AI Platform, ThinkOn, 25 June 2026.