Gameye vs. Edgegap

• Infrastructure: Gameye runs on 21 qualified bare-metal providers with 5GHz+ cores at every location. Edgegap aggregates 615+ locations across 17+ providers with 2.4–3.2 GHz hardware variance.
• DDoS: Game-aware DDoS protection is an entry requirement for every Gameye provider. Edgegap's protection varies by provider and location.
• SDK: Gameye requires no SDK in your game server binary. Edgegap offers an optional SDK.
• Player data: Gameye receives a region name — no player data passes to the platform. Edgegap's recommended Server Score strategy requires passing player IPs to the deployment API.

What is Edgegap?

Edgegap is a container orchestration platform focused on edge computing, offering 615+ locations across 17+ providers with a "regionless" deployment model. Edgegap's strengths are geographic distribution, self-serve onboarding with a free tier, and pay-per-use pricing — making it accessible for indie and mid-size studios.

Edgegap's public pool runs hardware ranging from 2.4 to 3.2 GHz across 17+ providers. DDoS protection varies by provider and location. Edgegap's recommended Server Score placement strategy requires passing player IP addresses to the deployment API.

What is Gameye?

Gameye is a managed orchestration platform built for the most demanding multiplayer games. It provides:

• Sub-second container scaling (0.5s average)
• Zero egress fees (included in pricing)
• 18 bare-metal providers, each qualifying to a hardware and protection baseline
• Game-grade DDoS protection built into every location
• Multi-provider redundancy with automatic failover
• Founded in 2017, 120M+ sessions orchestrated, 99.99% uptime
• Horizontal scaling across regions before cloud bursting

How does Gameye compare to Edgegap feature by feature?

Why aren.t more locations always better?

Edgegap markets 615+ locations as a key differentiator. But more locations creates new problems:

Hardware Inconsistency — and Why It Shows Up in Your Code

Edgegap's public pool runs between 2.4 and 3.2 GHz across 17+ providers — a 25%+ variance in CPU throughput.

A game server binary that runs physics at 128Hz on a 3.2 GHz core will behave differently on a 2.4 GHz core under load. Tick rate drifts. Physics steps accumulate error. The bugs that result are nearly impossible to reproduce — they are tied to whichever node the session landed on, which neither the developer nor the player can predict or control.

Gameye requires 5 GHz+ cores and 4 GB RAM per vCPU at every location it deploys to. A binary that passes testing on one Gameye location behaves identically on every other. That consistency is a developer guarantee, not a marketing claim.

Network Peering Variability

Each edge location has different peering arrangements with ISPs. A location physically close to a player can have poor peering, resulting in worse latency than a well-peered location further away. More locations amplifies this inconsistency rather than resolving it.

DDoS Protection Patchwork

With 17+ providers, DDoS mitigation quality varies by location and contract. During an attack, your weakest link determines your resilience.

Game-aware DDoS protection is an entry requirement for every Gameye provider. No provider is added to the Gameye network without it. Every location a session can land on has active DDoS mitigation, not just the locations on high-profile providers.

The "Regionless" Tradeoff

Edgegap markets regionless deployment as simpler. The reality depends on what you are building.

Gameye's regional integration is a single string parameter in your session start call. For a game with a concentrated player base, you pass location: "eu-west" and you are done. No player data collection, no measurement infrastructure, no ongoing beacon caching. Edgegap's Server Score strategy requires collecting every player's public IP and passing it to the deployment API.

For global games that need dynamic placement, both approaches require client-side latency measurement. With Gameye, placement logic lives in your matchmaker — you own it, you can log it, and you can reproduce every placement decision exactly. Gameye placement decisions are fully auditable. With Edgegap's regionless model, the platform's algorithm makes the final call, and the reasoning is not exposed for inspection.

Player Data Leaves Your Infrastructure

Edgegap's Server Score strategy requires passing every player's public IP address to the deployment API at session start. For studios operating under GDPR or data residency requirements, this raises questions about what player network data is transmitted to a third-party platform.

Gameye receives a region name only. No player IP addresses or personal data pass to the Gameye platform.

Consistent Hardware Requires a Sales Conversation

Edgegap's public pool runs hardware ranging from 2.4 to 3.2 GHz across 17+ providers — a meaningful range for tick-rate-sensitive games. Edgegap offers private bare metal pools with consistent 3.7-5.1 GHz hardware, but this tier has no public pricing. Edgegap's own documentation describes hybrid orchestration as "available only via client request due to required information necessary to propose a final pricing."

A studio that needs hardware consistency for competitive multiplayer cannot evaluate Edgegap on the same terms as their standard offering. Edgegap's private bare metal pools are pre-provisioned at specific locations — making the model regional in all but name. The global placement optimisation that defines regionless applies only to the variable-hardware public pool.

Gameye provides 5 GHz+ cores and 4 GB RAM per vCPU at every location, at standard pricing, from day one. No enterprise qualification is required for hardware consistency.

How do regions work for large-scale games?

Edgegap frames regional architecture as outdated. But there's a reason AAA studios use it:

1. Baseline capacity on premium bare metal — Run your steady-state traffic on high-performance, consistent hardware in major population centers.
2. Horizontal scaling within regions — When traffic spikes, scale across proven infrastructure in that region first.
3. Cloud bursting for peaks — Only burst to cloud capacity for extreme spikes (launches, free weekends).

This model optimises for performance consistency, not location count. Players in Frankfurt get the same hardware quality as players in Dallas. Tick rates stay stable. Gameplay feels fair.

Gameye has orchestrated 120M+ sessions using this model, including Chivalry 2's 250,000-player launch spike with zero downtime.

How accurate is Edgegap's comparison page?

Edgegap publishes a comparison that frames Gameye unfavourably. Let's address some claims:

Why choose Gameye as an alternative to Edgegap?

What do studios say about Gameye?

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Switching from Edgegap as an Unreal Engine studio?

Edgegap's hardware consistency issue matters more for UE titles than most engines — Unreal Engine's physics and networking ticks are sensitive to CPU throughput. The 25%+ clock speed variance across Edgegap's public pool means different tick behavior on different nodes, producing bugs nearly impossible to reproduce.

Gameye qualifies every location at 5GHz+ cores. A UE5 server that passes testing behaves identically in production regardless of which datacenter handles the session. Chivalry 2 (Unreal Engine 4, Torn Banner Studios) ran its 250,000-player launch on Gameye with zero downtime.

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