Exoscale
vs
Hugging Face
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
- Hub hosts 3M+ public models and 500k+ datasets
- Free hosting for public models, datasets and demos
- AI models and datasets can be mounted directly into a job
- Single GPUs up to 8x H200 or RTX PRO 6000
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Exoscale | Hugging Face | 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) | $18.00 /mo 1 TB (private) | 29% cheaper on Hugging Face |
| 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 | |
| Egress allowance | 1 TiB / mo per instance (1.42 GiB / hr) | 8x the amount of data stored | |
| Egress | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB | Included within the allowance |
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 and Hugging Face each offer 7 GPU models. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Exoscale | Hugging Face | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
RTX PRO 6000
4 configs · 4 configs
|
$2.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.75 /GPU/hr On-demand | 27% cheaper on Exoscale |
|
B300
1 config
|
-- On request | -- | 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 |
|
H200
4 configs
|
-- | $5.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hugging Face only |
|
A100
3 configs
|
-- | $2.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hugging Face only |
|
L40S
3 configs
|
-- | $1.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hugging Face only |
|
L4
2 configs
|
-- | $0.80 /GPU/hr On-demand | Hugging Face only |
Exoscale bills on-demand; Hugging Face 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 | Hugging Face |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | -- |
| HIPAA | Yes | -- |
| GDPR | Yes | Enterprise plan 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 | Hugging Face |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2011 | 2016 |
| Headquarters | Switzerland | USA |
| Locations | 8 | -- |
| Example customers | -- | Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Grammarly, Ai2 |
| Website | www.exoscale.com | huggingface.co |
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Our data for Exoscale was last updated on Sept. 24, 2026, and for Hugging Face on Sept. 24, 2026.