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Exoscale vs Azure

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What's good about...

Exoscale logo Exoscale

  • Wide range of managed services at competitive prices
  • Offers Nvidia GPUs like the RTX Pro 6000, 3080 Ti and A40
  • European cloud provider, may ease compliance requirements

Microsoft Azure logo 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 Azure?

VM Small

Closest config to 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM.
Exoscale Exoscale
$10.50 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Tiny)
Microsoft Azure Azure
$6.13 / mo 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (B2pts v2)

VM Medium

Closest config to 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM.
Exoscale Exoscale
$67.20 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large)
Microsoft Azure Azure
$86.87 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (B4pls v2)

VM Large

Closest config to 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (dedicated preferred).
Exoscale Exoscale
$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-optimized XL)
Microsoft Azure Azure
$173.74 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (B8pls v2)

Block Storage

Closest config to 100+ GB SSD, 3,000+ IOPS, 100+ MB/s throughput, no snapshots.
Exoscale Exoscale
$10.00 / mo 100 GB
Microsoft Azure Azure
$8.10 / mo 100 GB

Object Storage

Closest config to 1 TB stored, 100 GB in / 250 GB out, 1M GET, 100k PUT/POST.
Exoscale Exoscale
$19.80 / mo 1 TB
Microsoft Azure Azure
$21.50 / mo 1 TB

Load Balancer

Closest config to TCP, 1 node (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM), 200+ Mbps, 1,000 conn/sec, 1 TB processed/mo.
Exoscale Exoscale
$25.00 / mo Network Load Balancer
Microsoft Azure Azure
$23.25 / mo Standard

Managed PostgreSQL

Closest config to 1 node, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50+ GB storage, 10 GB read / 5 GB write per month.
Exoscale Exoscale
$98.49 / mo 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Startup-4)
Microsoft Azure Azure
$131.89 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 50 GB storage (Gen 5)

Managed Redis®*

Closest config to 1 node, 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 10 req/s, 1 KB avg request size.
Exoscale Exoscale
$42.44 / mo 1 GB RAM (Hobbyist-2 / Valkey)
Microsoft Azure Azure
$39.60 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic C1)

Serverless 25M Executions

Closest config to 25M invocations, 150ms execution time, 512 MB memory.
Exoscale Exoscale
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Microsoft Azure Azure
$29.80 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration

Free egress allowance

Exoscale Exoscale
1 TB / mo per instance
Microsoft Azure Azure
100 GB / mo

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Exoscale Exoscale
$20.00 $0.02 / GB
Microsoft Azure Azure
$87.00 $0.087 / GB (Premium network North America)

GPU Fleet Overview

Starting Price

Exoscale Exoscale
$0.74/hr
Microsoft Azure Azure
$0.09/hr

Billing Options

Exoscale Exoscale
On-Demand
Microsoft Azure Azure
On-DemandSpotReserved (36mo)Reserved (12mo)

Available Models

Exoscale offers 6 GPU models, while Azure offers 10.

Exoscale Exoscale
RTX Pro 6000(4) V100(4) A5000(3) A40(4) RTX 3080 Ti(3) A30(4)
Microsoft Azure Azure
H100(14) A100(20) H200(2) RTX Pro 6000(40) V100(4) A10(24) T4(16) GB200(2) MI300X(2) M60(12)

Heads up: We do our best to keep these specs & prices accurate. However, cloud costs may fluctuate based on region, usage, and other factors not listed here. These are estimates based on common setups and are for informational purposes only. Always verify current rates & exact specs with the provider before provisioning.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Exoscale and Azure offer:

Service Exoscale Azure
Analytics
App Testing
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
Container Registry
Crash Reporting
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
NoSQL Databases
Object Storage
Performance Monitoring
Push Notifications
Realtime Databases
Remote Config
Serverless Cron Jobs
Serverless Functions
Static Sites
User Authentication
Vector Databases
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Exoscale Exoscale
www.exoscale.com
Microsoft Azure Azure
azure.microsoft.com
Headquarters
Exoscale Exoscale
Switzerland
Microsoft Azure Azure
United States of America
Founded
Exoscale Exoscale
2011
Microsoft Azure Azure
2008
Data Center Locations
Exoscale Exoscale
8
Microsoft Azure Azure
66
Example Customers
Exoscale Exoscale
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Microsoft Azure Azure
General Motors, NHS, Fujitsu, NBA

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Our data for Exoscale was last updated on Feb. 12, 2026, and for Azure on June 22, 2026.

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Our sponsor
NVIDIA H200 from $2.20/hr, B200 from $3.40/hr, B300 from $3.80/hr
Per-second billing with no minimum commitment or vendor lock-in
Scale to 8,000 GPUs over InfiniBand for distributed AI training
Start now