Exoscale vs GCP

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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

Google Cloud

Extensive range of managed services with a focus on big data and machine learning
BigQuery and Google Kubernetes Engine are widely considered industry-leading solutions
Strong community and developer tooling
40+ data centers around the world

Price comparison

How do Exoscale's prices compare against Google Cloud?

Example configuration	Exoscale	Google Cloud
VM Small	$10.50 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Tiny)	$20.49 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (E2 custom)
VM Medium	$67.20 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large)	$90.15 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)
VM Large	$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-optimized XL)	$179.87 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (E2 custom)
Block Storage	$10.00 / mo 100 GB	$4.10 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$19.80 / mo 1 TB	$24.93 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$25.00 / mo Network Load Balancer	$29.44 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	$98.49 / mo 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Startup-4)	$93.60 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	$42.44 / mo 2 GB RAM (Hobbyist-2)	$35.28 / mo 1 vCPU, 1.55 GiB RAM (Basic)
Serverless 25M Executions	--	$47.62 / mo 25M invocations, 2nd gen, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	1 TB / mo per instance	Depends on service
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$20.00 $0.02 / GB	$120.00 $0.12 / GB (Premium network)

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

GCP offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
g2-standard-4	1x L4	24GB	4	16GB	$0.71	Source
g2-standard-8	1x L4	24GB	8	32GB	$0.85	Source
g2-standard-12	1x L4	24GB	12	48GB	$1.00	Source
g2-standard-16	1x L4	24GB	16	64GB	$1.15	Source
g2-standard-32	1x L4	24GB	32	128GB	$1.73	Source
g2-standard-24	2x L4	48GB	24	96GB	$2.00	Source
a2-highgpu-1g	1x A100	40GB	12	85GB	$3.67	Source
g2-standard-48	4x L4	96GB	48	192GB	$4.00	Source
a2-highgpu-2g	2x A100	80GB	24	170GB	$7.35	Source
g2-standard-96	8x L4	192GB	96	384GB	$8.00	Source
a2-highgpu-4g	4x A100	160GB	48	340GB	$14.69	Source
a2-highgpu-8g	8x A100	320GB	96	680GB	$29.39	Source
a2-megagpu-16g	16x A100	640GB	96	1360GB	$55.74	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 Google Cloud offer:

Service	Exoscale	Google Cloud
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry	--
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers	--
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs	--
Serverless Functions	--
Static Sites	--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

	Exoscale	Google Cloud
Website	www.exoscale.com	cloud.google.com
Headquarters	Switzerland 🇨🇭	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011	2008
Data Center Locations	7	40
Example Customers	--	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank

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

	Google Cloud
Website	cloud.google.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008
Data Center Locations	40
Example Customers	PayPal, GitLab, 20th Century Fox, Target, Scotiabank