DigitalOcean 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...

DigitalOcean

Wide range of managed services: from databases to serverless to Kubernetes
Many VPS configurations available (GPUs, high memory, dedicated CPU)
Plenty of datacenter locations around the world
There's lots of guides, docs and community tutorials online

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 DigitalOcean's prices compare against Exoscale?

Example configuration	DigitalOcean	Exoscale
VM Small	$6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic)	$10.50 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Tiny)
VM Medium	$48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic)	$67.20 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large)
VM Large	$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized)	$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-optimized XL)
Block Storage	$10.00 / mo 100 GB	$10.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$20.00 / mo 1 TiB	$19.80 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$12.00 / mo	$25.00 / mo Network Load Balancer
Managed PostgreSQL	$60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage	$98.49 / mo 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Startup-4)
Managed Redis®*	$15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM	$42.44 / mo 2 GB RAM (Hobbyist-2)
Serverless 25M Executions	$34.69 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration	--
Free egress allowance	100 GB - 10 TB / mo per instance	1 TB / mo per instance
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$10.00 $0.01 / GB	$20.00 $0.02 / GB

DigitalOcean offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
Nvidia H100 SXM	1x H100	80GB	20	240GB	$3.39	Launch
Nvidia H100 SXM	8x H100	640GB	160	1920GB	$23.92	Launch

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 DigitalOcean and Exoscale offer:

Service	DigitalOcean	Exoscale
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry		--
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers		--
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs		--
Serverless Functions		--
Static Sites		--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

	DigitalOcean	Exoscale
Website	digitalocean.com	www.exoscale.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	Switzerland 🇨🇭
Founded	2011	2011
Data Center Locations	14	7
Example Customers	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai	--

	DigitalOcean
Website	digitalocean.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011
Data Center Locations	14
Example Customers	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai