Exoscale
vs
Gcore
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
- Cloud regions on six continents
- Free egress from virtual machines and bare metal
- Per-minute billing, only while a VM runs
- Nvidia GPUs from L40S up to GB300 NVL72 racks
- CDN and DDoS protection on the same account
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Exoscale | Gcore | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $10.50 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Tiny) | $11.72 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (g3a-standard-1-2) | 10% cheaper on Exoscale |
| Medium VM | $67.20 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large) | $46.91 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (g3a-standard-4-8) | 30% cheaper on Gcore |
| Large VM | $168.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-optimized XL) | $93.83 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (g3a-standard-8-16) | 44% cheaper on Gcore |
| Block storage | $10.08 /mo 100 GB | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $25.28 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress (Standard) | $52.26 /mo 1 TB (Standard) | 52% 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 | $17.15 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (lb1-1-2) | 31% cheaper on Gcore |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $7.46 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms (Darmstadt) | |
| Egress allowance | 1 TiB / mo per instance (1.42 GiB / hr) | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB | Free from VMs, billed from Object Storage |
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, while Gcore offers 6. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Exoscale | Gcore | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
B300
1 config · 1 config
|
-- On request | $6.78 /GPU/hr On-demand | |
|
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 |
|
H100
9 configs
|
-- | $1.73 /GPU/hr On-demand | Gcore only |
|
H200
1 config
|
-- | $3.08 /GPU/hr On-demand | Gcore only |
|
A100
5 configs
|
-- | $1.42 /GPU/hr On-demand | Gcore only |
|
GB300
1 config
|
-- | -- On request | Gcore only |
Exoscale bills on-demand; Gcore 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 | Gcore |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Type I |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | Yes |
| HIPAA | Yes | -- |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | -- | Yes |
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 | Gcore |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2011 | 2014 |
| Headquarters | Switzerland | Luxembourg |
| Locations | 8 | 33 |
| Example customers | -- | Microsoft, ProSieben, Higgsfield, Leonardo AI, Funcom |
| Website | www.exoscale.com | gcore.com |
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Our data for Exoscale was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Gcore on Sept. 18, 2026.