EmpirioLabs AI
vs
Exoscale
What's good about each
- Locations in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Bulgaria and Croatia
- 1 TiB of monthly egress included per instance
- Managed databases from PostgreSQL to Kafka and ClickHouse
- Nvidia GPUs from RTX 3080 Ti to RTX PRO 6000
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | EmpirioLabs AI | Exoscale | Difference |
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| Small VM | -- Not listed | $10.50 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Tiny) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $67.20 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $168.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-optimized XL) | |
| Block storage | -- Not listed | $10.08 /mo 100 GB | |
| Object storage | -- Not listed | $25.28 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress (Standard) | |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $98.49 /mo 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Startup-4) | |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $42.44 /mo 1 GB RAM (Hobbyist-2 / Valkey) | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | $25.00 /mo Network Load Balancer | |
| Egress allowance | -- Not listed | 1 TiB / mo per instance (1.42 GiB / hr) | |
| Egress | -- Not listed | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
EmpirioLabs AI offers 19 GPU models, while Exoscale offers 7. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | EmpirioLabs AI | Exoscale | Difference |
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$17.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- On request | |
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$2.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | 17% cheaper on Exoscale |
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$1.49 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | $1.05 /GPU/hr On-demand | 30% cheaper on Exoscale |
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$0.70 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | $1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand | 39% cheaper on EmpirioLabs AI |
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$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | $0.74 /GPU/hr On-demand | 26% cheaper on EmpirioLabs AI |
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$4.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | EmpirioLabs AI only |
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$10.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | EmpirioLabs AI only |
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$6.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | EmpirioLabs AI only |
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-- | $0.83 /GPU/hr On-demand | Exoscale only |
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-- | $0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand | Exoscale only |
EmpirioLabs AI bills on-demand; Exoscale bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | EmpirioLabs AI | Exoscale |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | -- | 2011 |
| Headquarters | USA | Switzerland |
| Locations | 6 | 8 |
| Example customers | -- | -- |
| Website | empiriolabs.ai | www.exoscale.com |
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Our data for EmpirioLabs AI was last updated on Sept. 29, 2026, and for Exoscale on Sept. 29, 2026.