Exoscale vs FluidStack

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What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
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

FluidStack

Deploy GPU workloads without having to manage infrastructure
Affordable prices, wide range of GPU options
Clusters can be reserved to lock-in savings
24/7 support with a 15-minute response time

Price comparison

How do Exoscale's prices compare against FluidStack?

Example configuration	Exoscale	FluidStack
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 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

FluidStack offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
Nvidia A4000	1x A4000	16GB	36	128GB	$0.40	Source
Nvidia A5000	1x A5000	24GB	36	128GB	$0.55	Source
Nvidia A40	1x A40	48GB	32	128GB	$0.60	Source
Nvidia A6000	1x A6000	48GB	48	128GB	$0.80	Source
Nvidia L40	1x L40S	48GB	32	48GB	$1.25	Source
Nvidia A100 PCIe 40GB	1x A100	40GB	32	128GB	$1.65	Source
Nvidia A100 PCIe 80GB	1x A100	80GB	48	256GB	$1.80	Source
Nvidia H100 PCIe	1x H100	80GB	48	256GB	$2.89	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 FluidStack offer:

Service	Exoscale	FluidStack
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	FluidStack
Website	www.exoscale.com	www.fluidstack.io
Headquarters	Switzerland 🇨🇭	United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Founded	2011	2017
Data Center Locations	7	4
Example Customers	--	Character.ai, Playground, Samsung Research, Krisp, Codeway

	Exoscale
Website	www.exoscale.com
Headquarters	Switzerland 🇨🇭
Founded	2011
Data Center Locations	7
Example Customers	--

	FluidStack
Website	www.fluidstack.io
Headquarters	United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Founded	2017
Data Center Locations	4
Example Customers	Character.ai, Playground, Samsung Research, Krisp, Codeway