Exoscale vs Azure

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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

Microsoft Azure

Integrations with the rest of Microsoft's products
Extensive range of managed services, from serverless to databases to queues to AI
Generous free tier, and compute savings plans available
60+ datacenter locations around the world

Price comparison

How do Exoscale's prices compare against Microsoft Azure?

Example configuration	Exoscale	Microsoft Azure
VM Small	$10.50 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Tiny)	$6.13 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B2pts v2)
VM Medium	$67.20 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large)	$86.87 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (B4pls v2)
VM Large	$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-optimized XL)	$173.74 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (B8pls v2)
Block Storage	$10.00 / mo 100 GB	$8.10 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$19.80 / mo 1 TB	$21.50 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$25.00 / mo Network Load Balancer	$23.25 / mo Standard
Managed PostgreSQL	$98.49 / mo 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Startup-4)	$131.89 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5)
Managed Redis®*	$42.44 / mo 2 GB RAM (Hobbyist-2)	$39.60 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1)
Serverless 25M Executions	--	$29.80 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	1 TB / mo per instance	100 GB / mo
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$20.00 $0.02 / GB	$87.00 $0.087 / GB (Premium network North America)

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

Azure offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
NC4as T4 v3	1x T4	16GB	4	28GB	$0.53	Source
NC8as T4 v3	1x T4	16GB	8	56GB	$0.75	Source
NC6	1x K80	12GB	6	56GB	$0.90	Source
NV6	1x M60	8GB	6	56GB	$1.14	Source
NV12s v3	1x M60	8GB	12	112GB	$1.14	Source
NC16as T4 v3	1x T4	16GB	16	110GB	$1.20	Source
NC12	2x K80	24GB	12	112GB	$1.80	Source
NC6s v2	1x P100	16GB	6	112GB	$2.07	Source
ND6s	1x P40	24GB	6	112GB	$2.07	Source
NV12	2x M60	16GB	12	112GB	$2.28	Source
NV24s v3	2x M60	16GB	24	224GB	$2.28	Source
NC6s v3	1x V100	16GB	6	112GB	$3.06	Source
NC24	4x K80	48GB	24	224GB	$3.60	Source
NC24r	4x K80	48GB	24	224GB	$3.96	Source
NC12s v2	2x P100	32GB	12	224GB	$4.14	Source
ND12s	2x P40	48GB	12	224GB	$4.14	Source
NC64as T4 v3	4x T4	64GB	64	440GB	$4.35	Source
NV48s v3	4x M60	32GB	48	448GB	$4.56	Source
NV24	4x M60	32GB	24	224GB	$4.56	Source
NC24ads A100 v4	1x A100	80GB	24	220GB	$4.78	Launch
NC12s v3	2x V100	32GB	12	224GB	$6.12	Source
ND24s	4x P40	96GB	24	448GB	$8.28	Source
NC24s v2	4x P100	64GB	24	448GB	$8.28	Source
ND24rs	4x P40	96GB	24	448GB	$9.11	Source
NC24rs v2	4x P100	64GB	24	448GB	$9.11	Source
NC24s v3	4x V100	64GB	24	448GB	$12.24	Source
NC24rs v3	4x V100	64GB	24	448GB	$13.46	Source
ND40rs v2	8x V100	256GB	40	672GB	$22.03	Source
ND96asr A100 v4	8x A100	320GB	96	900GB	$27.20	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 Microsoft Azure offer:

Service	Exoscale	Microsoft Azure
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	Microsoft Azure
Website	www.exoscale.com	azure.microsoft.com
Headquarters	Switzerland 🇨🇭	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011	2008
Data Center Locations	7	66
Example Customers	--	General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA

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

	Microsoft Azure
Website	azure.microsoft.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2008
Data Center Locations	66
Example Customers	General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA