Exoscale vs Fal.ai

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
Company details
Alternatives to consider

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

Fal.ai

Optimized for fast inference, especially for generative media
Cost-effective, pay-as-you-go pricing model
Offers both serverless GPU instances

Price comparison

How do Exoscale's prices compare against Fal.ai?

Example configuration	Exoscale	Fal.ai
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	--

Exoscale GPUs

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
3080ti Small	1x 3080ti	12GB	12	56GB	$1.07	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	$1.55	Source
P100 Medium	2x P100	32GB	16	90GB	$1.71	Source
3080ti Medium	2x 3080ti	24GB	24	112GB	$1.97	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
P100 Huge	4x P100	64GB	48	225GB	$2.82	Source
A5000 Medium	2x A5000	48GB	24	112GB	$2.88	Source
V100 Huge	4x V100	64GB	48	225GB	$3.32	Source
3080ti Large	4x 3080ti	48GB	48	224GB	$3.64	Source
A40 Medium	2x A40	96GB	24	120GB	$4.27	Source
A5000 Large	4x A5000	96GB	48	224GB	$5.29	Source
A40 Large	4x A40	192GB	48	224GB	$8.54	Source
A40 Huge	8x A40	384GB	96	448GB	$17.06	Source

Fal.ai uses a usage-based pricing model, ensuring you only pay for the compute you consume. It offers two main structures:

GPU Pricing: Billed per second for deploying custom applications on their GPU fleet.
Output-Based Pricing: For models hosted by Fal.ai, billing is based on the output generated, such as per image, per megapixel, or per second of video.

Fal.ai GPUs

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
A6000	1x A6000	48GB	--	--	$0.60	Source
A100	1x A100	40GB	--	--	$0.99	Source
H100	1x H100	80GB	--	--	$1.89	Source
H200	1x H200	141GB	--	--	$2.10	Source
B200	1x B200	184GB	--	--	On Request	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 Exoscale and Fal.ai offer:

Service	Exoscale	Fal.ai
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

	Exoscale	Fal.ai
Website	www.exoscale.com	fal.ai
Headquarters	Switzerland 🇨🇭	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011	2021
Data Center Locations	7	--
Example Customers	--	PlayAI, Quora Poe, Genspark, Hedra