Build AI vs Exoscale

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What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Build AI

Cost efficient, claims to save up to 50% on GPU costs
Predictable interruptions during peak energy hours
Offers Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs

Exoscale

Wide range of managed services at competitive prices
Offers GPUs such as the Nvidia A40, P100, and V100
Based in Switzerland, may ease compliance requirements

Price comparison

How do Build AI's prices compare against Exoscale?

Example configuration	Build AI	Exoscale
VM Small	--	$10.50 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Tiny)
VM Medium	--	$67.20 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large)
VM Large	--	$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-optimized XL)
Block Storage	--	$10.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	--	$19.80 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	--	$25.00 / mo Network Load Balancer
Managed PostgreSQL	--	$98.49 / mo 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Startup-4)
Managed Redis®*	--	$42.44 / mo 2 GB RAM (Hobbyist-2)
Free egress allowance	--	1 TB / mo per instance
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	--	$20.00 $0.02 / GB

What makes Build AI's pricing stand out is that you can run your workload on interruptible GPUs (spot) and save up to 50% of the cost. They claim interruptions last about 2 hours per day, which makes them particularly suited for training workloads.

If you require guaranteed uptime, non-interruptible GPUs can be reserved on their platform too.

Build AI offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
A100 (spot)	1x A100	40GB	15	200GB	$1.05	Source
A100	1x A100	40GB	15	200GB	$1.42	Source
A100 (spot)	1x A100	80GB	30	225GB	$1.45	Source
A100	1x A100	80GB	30	225GB	$1.97	Source
H100 (spot)	1x H100	80GB	26	225GB	$2.79	Source
H100	1x H100	80GB	26	225GB	$3.85	Source

Exoscale offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
Small	1x P100	16GB	12	56GB	$1.17	Source
Small	1x V100	16GB	12	56GB	$1.38	Source
Medium	2x P100	32GB	16	90GB	$1.71	Source
Medium	2x V100	32GB	16	90GB	$2.01	Source
Small	1x A40	48GB	12	56GB	$2.14	Source
Large	3x P100	48GB	24	120GB	$2.25	Source
Large	3x V100	48GB	24	120GB	$2.65	Source
Huge	4x P100	64GB	48	225GB	$2.82	Source
Huge	4x V100	64GB	48	225GB	$3.32	Source
Medium	2x A40	96GB	24	120GB	$4.27	Source
Large	4x A40	192GB	48	224GB	$8.54	Source
Huge	8x A40	384GB	96	448GB	$17.06	Source

Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer?

Here are some managed services that Build AI and Exoscale offer:

Service	Build AI	Exoscale
Block Storage	--
Content Delivery Network (CDN)	--
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer	--
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL	--
Managed PostgreSQL	--
Managed Redis®*	--
Object Storage	--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

	Build AI	Exoscale
Website	trybuild.ai	www.exoscale.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	Switzerland 🇨🇭
Founded	2024	2011
Data Center Locations	1	7
Example Customers	--	--