Exoscale | Review, Pricing & Alternatives

Exoscale is a Swiss cloud provider focused on simplicity, reliability, and high performance. Founded in 2011, since then, it has expanded its offerings from compute to databases to managed Kubernetes and GPU instances.

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What's good about 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

Exoscale pricing examples

Below are some example configurations and their estimated costs:

Example configuration	Estimated cost
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

GPUs are available in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
3080ti Small	1x 3080ti	12GB	12	56GB	$1.04	Source
P100 Small	1x P100	16GB	12	56GB	$1.17	Source
V100 Small	1x V100	16GB	12	56GB	$1.38	Source
A5000 Small	1x A5000	24GB	12	56GB	$1.52	Source
P100 Medium	2x P100	32GB	16	90GB	$1.71	Source
3080ti Medium	2x 3080ti	24GB	24	112GB	$1.93	Source
V100 Medium	2x V100	32GB	16	90GB	$2.01	Source
A40 Small	1x A40	48GB	12	56GB	$2.14	Source
P100 Large	3x P100	48GB	24	120GB	$2.25	Source
V100 Large	3x V100	48GB	24	120GB	$2.65	Source
A5000 Medium	2x A5000	48GB	24	112GB	$2.81	Source
P100 Huge	4x P100	64GB	48	225GB	$2.82	Source
V100 Huge	4x V100	64GB	48	225GB	$3.32	Source
3080ti Large	4x 3080ti	48GB	48	224GB	$3.56	Source
A40 Medium	2x A40	96GB	24	120GB	$4.27	Source
A5000 Large	4x A5000	96GB	48	224GB	$5.16	Source
A40 Large	4x A40	192GB	48	224GB	$8.54	Source
A40 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. You can find Exoscale's latest pricing here.

Which services does Exoscale offer

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)

Data center locations

Based on our records, Exoscale has 7 data center locations:

Slug	Country	Location
AT-VIE-1	Austria 🇦🇹	Vienna
AT-VIE-2	Austria 🇦🇹	Vienna
BG-SOF-1	Bulgaria 🇧🇬	Sofia
DE-FRA-1	Germany 🇩🇪	Frankfurt
DE-MUC-1	Germany 🇩🇪	Munich
CH-GVA-2	Switzerland 🇨🇭	Geneva
CH-DK-2	Switzerland 🇨🇭	Zurich