Exoscale vs Paperspace

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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

Paperspace

Competitive GPU prices
Managed platform, from notebooks to container-based clusters
Free ingress and egress

Price comparison

How do Exoscale's prices compare against Paperspace?

Example configuration	Exoscale	Paperspace
VM Small	$10.50 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Tiny)	--
VM Medium	$67.20 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large)	--
VM Large	$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-optimized XL)	--
Block Storage	$10.00 / mo 100 GB	--
Object Storage	$19.80 / mo 1 TB	--
Load Balancer	$25.00 / mo Network Load Balancer	--
Managed PostgreSQL	$98.49 / mo 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Startup-4)	--
Managed Redis®*	$42.44 / mo 2 GB RAM (Hobbyist-2)	--
Free egress allowance	1 TB / mo per instance	--
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$20.00 $0.02 / GB	Free and unlimited Burst up to 10 Gbps, then soft capped at 900 Mbps

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

Paperspace offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
GPU+ (M4000)	1x M4000	8GB	8	30GB	$0.45	Source
P4000	1x P4000	8GB	8	30GB	$0.51	Source
RTX4000	1x RTX4000	24GB	8	30GB	$0.56	Source
P5000	1x P5000	16GB	8	30GB	$0.78	Source
A4000	1x A4000	16GB	8	45GB	$0.80	Launch
RTX5000	1x RTX5000	16GB	8	30GB	$0.82	Source
P6000	1x P6000	24GB	8	30GB	$1.10	Source
A5000	1x A5000	24GB	8	45GB	$1.42	Launch
A6000	1x A6000	48GB	8	45GB	$1.93	Launch
V100-32G	1x V100	32GB	8	30GB	$2.34	Launch
V100	1x V100	16GB	8	30GB	$2.34	Launch
A100	1x A100	40GB	8	90GB	$3.19	Launch
A100-80G	1x A100	80GB	8	90GB	$3.28	Launch
H100 PCIe	1x H100	80GB	16	268GB	$5.99	Launch

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 Paperspace offer:

Service	Exoscale	Paperspace
Block Storage		--
Content Delivery Network (CDN)		--
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer		--
Managed Kubernetes		--
Managed MySQL		--
Managed PostgreSQL		--
Managed Redis®*		--
Object Storage		--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)		--

Company details

	Exoscale	Paperspace
Website	www.exoscale.com	paperspace.com
Headquarters	Switzerland 🇨🇭	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011	2014
Data Center Locations	7	3
Example Customers	--	Fast.ai, SciSpace, Tunebat, Spectrum Labs, Kando

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

	Paperspace
Website	paperspace.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2014
Data Center Locations	3
Example Customers	Fast.ai, SciSpace, Tunebat, Spectrum Labs, Kando