Exoscale
vs
Azure
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
- Integrates with Entra ID, Microsoft 365, GitHub and Visual Studio
- Azure Arc and Azure Stack for hybrid and multicloud
- OpenAI models served through Azure AI Foundry
- 100+ compliance offerings, regional and industry-specific
- 60+ regions worldwide
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Exoscale | Azure | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $10.50 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Tiny) | $6.77 /mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B2ats v2) | 36% cheaper on Azure |
| Medium VM | $67.20 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large) | $95.76 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (B4als v2) | 30% cheaper on Exoscale |
| Large VM | $168.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-optimized XL) | $231.84 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (D8als v6) | 28% cheaper on Exoscale |
| Block storage | $10.08 /mo 100 GB | $7.92 /mo 100 GB (Premium SSD v2) | 21% cheaper on Azure |
| Object storage | $25.28 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress (Standard) | $35.25 /mo 1 TB | 28% cheaper on Exoscale |
| PostgreSQL | $98.49 /mo 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Startup-4) | $54.71 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Flexible Server B2s) | 44% cheaper on Azure |
| Redis | $42.44 /mo 1 GB RAM (Hobbyist-2 / Valkey) | $23.04 /mo 1 GB RAM (Managed Redis Balanced B1) | 46% cheaper on Azure |
| Load balancer | $25.00 /mo Network Load Balancer | $23.00 /mo Standard | 8% cheaper on Azure |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $35.00 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | |
| Egress allowance | 1 TiB / mo per instance (1.42 GiB / hr) | 100 GB / mo | |
| Egress | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB | $87.00 /TB $0.087 / GB (Premium network North America) | 77% 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 Azure offers 10. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Exoscale | Azure | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
RTX PRO 6000
4 configs · 40 configs
|
$2.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | $5.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | 64% cheaper on Exoscale |
|
V100
4 configs · 6 configs
|
$0.83 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.53 /GPU/hr On-demand | 46% 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
20 configs
|
-- | $1.29 /GPU/hr Spot | Azure only |
|
H200
4 configs
|
-- | $6.86 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | Azure only |
|
A100
20 configs
|
-- | $0.68 /GPU/hr Spot | Azure only |
|
GB200
4 configs
|
-- | $11.90 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | Azure only |
Exoscale bills on-demand; Azure 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 | Azure |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | Type II |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | Yes |
| HIPAA | Yes | Yes |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
| PCI DSS | -- | Level 1 |
| 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 | Azure |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2011 | 2008 |
| Headquarters | Switzerland | USA |
| Locations | 8 | 66 |
| Example customers | -- | General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA |
| Website | www.exoscale.com | azure.microsoft.com |
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Our data for Exoscale was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Azure on Oct. 1, 2026.