Exoscale
vs
Google Cloud
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
- 40+ regions across 26 countries
- BigQuery, GKE and Gemini models on Vertex AI
- TPUs, plus Nvidia T4 up to 8x B200 nodes
- Automatic sustained use discounts on N1 and N2 VMs
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Exoscale | Google Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $10.50 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Tiny) | $6.79 /mo 2 vCPU (shared-core), 1 GB RAM (e2-micro) | 35% cheaper on Google Cloud |
| Medium VM | $67.20 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large) | $94.20 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (E2 custom) | 29% cheaper on Exoscale |
| Large VM | $168.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-optimized XL) | $220.44 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (n4-highcpu-8) | 24% cheaper on Exoscale |
| Block storage | $10.08 /mo 100 GB | $7.89 /mo 100 GB (Hyperdisk Balanced) | 22% cheaper on Google Cloud |
| Object storage | $25.28 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress (Standard) | $42.13 /mo 1 TB | 40% cheaper on Exoscale |
| PostgreSQL | $98.49 /mo 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Startup-4) | $94.22 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB SSD (Cloud SQL Enterprise) | Within 5% |
| Redis | $42.44 /mo 1 GB RAM (Hobbyist-2 / Valkey) | $22.90 /mo 1.4 GB (Memorystore for Valkey, shared-core-nano) | 46% cheaper on Google Cloud |
| Load balancer | $25.00 /mo Network Load Balancer | $29.16 /mo Passthrough Network Load Balancer | 14% cheaper on Exoscale |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $44.66 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration (Cloud Run functions, 0.333 vCPU) | |
| Egress allowance | 1 TiB / mo per instance (1.42 GiB / hr) | 1 GB / mo (Compute Engine), 100 GB / mo (Cloud Storage) | |
| Egress | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB | $120.00 /TB $0.12 / GB (Premium network) | 83% 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, while Google Cloud offers 10. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Exoscale | Google Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
RTX PRO 6000
4 configs · 16 configs
|
$2.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | $4.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 56% cheaper on Exoscale |
|
V100
4 configs · 36 configs
|
$0.83 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.53 /GPU/hr On-demand | 67% cheaper on Exoscale |
|
B300
1 config
|
-- On request | -- | 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
15 configs
|
-- | $4.34 /GPU/hr Spot | Google Cloud only |
|
B200
3 configs
|
-- | $4.18 /GPU/hr Spot | Google Cloud only |
|
H200
3 configs
|
-- | $4.66 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | Google Cloud only |
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A100
36 configs
|
-- | $1.31 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | Google Cloud only |
Exoscale bills on-demand; Google Cloud bills on-demand, spot and reserved (12 or 36 months). 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 | Google Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | Yes |
| HIPAA | Yes | Yes |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | -- | Yes |
| FedRAMP | -- | High |
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 | Google Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2011 | 2008 |
| Headquarters | Switzerland | USA |
| Locations | 8 | 40 |
| Example customers | -- | Shopify, Wayfair, Etsy, The Home Depot, Unilever, Lloyds Banking Group |
| Website | www.exoscale.com | cloud.google.com |
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Our data for Exoscale was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Google Cloud on Oct. 1, 2026.