Exoscale
vs
Firebase
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
- Free Spark plan with no payment method needed
- Realtime sync in Firestore and Realtime Database
- SDKs for iOS, Android, web, Flutter and Unity
- Crashlytics, Analytics and Cloud Messaging at no cost
- Runs on Google Cloud in 40+ locations
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Exoscale | Firebase | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $10.50 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Tiny) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $67.20 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $168.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-optimized XL) | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $10.08 /mo 100 GB | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $25.28 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress (Standard) | $39.24 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress, 1M download + 100k upload operations | 36% cheaper on Exoscale |
| PostgreSQL | $98.49 /mo 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Startup-4) | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | $42.44 /mo 1 GB RAM (Hobbyist-2 / Valkey) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $25.00 /mo Network Load Balancer | -- Not listed | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $44.66 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration · $0.40 / 1M invocations + Cloud Run CPU and memory rates | |
| Egress allowance | 1 TiB / mo per instance (1.42 GiB / hr) | 360 MB/day on Hosting (~10 GB/mo) | |
| Egress | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB | $150.00 /TB $0.15 / GB (Hosting) | 87% cheaper on Exoscale |
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
Exoscale offers 7 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Firebase. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Exoscale | Firebase | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
B300
1 config
|
-- On request | -- | Exoscale only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
4 configs
|
$2.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Exoscale only |
|
V100
4 configs
|
$0.83 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Exoscale only |
|
A40
4 configs
|
$1.05 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Exoscale only |
|
A5000
3 configs
|
$1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Exoscale only |
|
RTX 3080 Ti
3 configs
|
$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Exoscale only |
|
A30
4 configs
|
$0.74 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Exoscale only |
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.
| Framework | Exoscale | Firebase |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | Yes |
| HIPAA | Yes | -- |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | -- | Some Firebase services only |
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 | Exoscale | Firebase |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2011 | 2011 |
| Headquarters | Switzerland | USA |
| Locations | 8 | 42 |
| Example customers | -- | The New York Times, Duolingo, Venmo, Trivago, Ctrip, Gameloft |
| Website | www.exoscale.com | firebase.google.com |
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Our data for Exoscale was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Firebase on Sept. 18, 2026.