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Naver

Interesting service we cannot verify yet (not launched, sold out, government-only, etc.).

ByJordan NanosDaniel NishballDylan Patel
Published

Naver Quick Stats

ClusterMAX Tier
Unavailable (not yet rated)
Source Rating Cycle
ClusterMAX 2.0
GPUs Offered
Not detailed in review
Slurm Support
Not flagged
Kubernetes Support
Not flagged
SOC 2 Mentioned
Not flagged
NCCL Benchmarks
Not in review
Last Updated
Nov 06, 2025

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Naver s effectively the “Google of South Korea”, thanks to their success in search, blogging, forums, e-commerce, payments and more. Naver has just recently gone public with their plans to launch a neocloud, thanks in no small part to Jensen’s trip to Seoul and meetings with HBM manufacturers SK Hynix and Samsung. The new cloud project will include a total of some 260,000 GPUs being deployed, with 60,000 going to Naver for the public cloud offering, while the other 200,000 are split between Samsung, SK, Hyundai and Naver’s internal workloads.

Notably, Naver already operates a cloud, has a large research organization putting out great work, and has the infrastructure in place to seed the Korean startup and academic ecosystem at large. We look forward to testing Naver’s GPU cloud offerings in the future.

Naver GPU Cloud FAQ

What tier is Naver in ClusterMAX?

Naver is rated Unavailable tier in the ClusterMAX 2.0 GPU cloud rating system by SemiAnalysis (with the ClusterMAX 2.1 Update applied April 2026). Unavailable is tracked by ClusterMAX but not yet directly verifiable for hands-on testing. Interesting service we cannot verify yet (not launched, sold out, government-only, etc.).

Is Naver SOC 2 Type II certified?

Naver's ClusterMAX review does not flag a SOC 2 Type II attestation as confirmed. SemiAnalysis treats SOC 2 Type II as a baseline expectation for any GPU cloud serving enterprise or regulated AI workloads — see the ClusterMAX criteria page for the full security baseline.

Does Naver support Slurm?

Naver's ClusterMAX review does not call out a first-party managed Slurm offering. Customers wanting Slurm-on-Kubernetes (SUNK, Soperator, Slinky) should compare Naver against providers that explicitly list managed Slurm in their offering — see the ClusterMAX /slurm expectations page for the full bar.

Does Naver support Kubernetes?

Naver's ClusterMAX review does not document a first-party managed Kubernetes service. See the ClusterMAX /k8s expectations page for the managed-Kubernetes bar SemiAnalysis tests against when evaluating GPU cloud providers.

What GPUs does Naver offer?

The Naver ClusterMAX review covers their current GPU inventory and on-demand availability. SemiAnalysis tracks H100, H200, B200, GB200 NVL72, GB300 NVL72, and MI300X / MI355X availability across all 85 providers in the ClusterMAX 2.0 + 2.1 cohort.

What is the NCCL all-reduce performance on Naver?

Naver's ClusterMAX review does not yet publish hands-on NCCL all-reduce results. NCCL all-reduce bandwidth is the standard SemiAnalysis benchmark for InfiniBand / RoCE health on GPU clusters — see the ClusterMAX /health-checks page for the full benchmark methodology.

How does Naver compare to CoreWeave?

CoreWeave is the only ClusterMAX Platinum provider, while Naver is rated Unavailable. The Naver review documents the specific gaps versus CoreWeave across the 10 ClusterMAX criteria (Security, Lifecycle, Orchestration, Storage, Networking, Reliability, Monitoring, Pricing, Partnerships, Availability). See the Naver review body and the ClusterMAX /criteria page for the full comparison framework.

Is Naver recommended for LLM training?

Naver's current ClusterMAX rating (Unavailable) means SemiAnalysis does not directly recommend Naver for production LLM training without first addressing the specific gaps called out in the review. See the Naver review for the gating issues and see the ClusterMAX /cloudreview index for currently recommended alternatives in Platinum / Gold / Silver / Bronze.

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