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
RunPod
- Affordable GPUs in various configurations
- Packed with features: hot-reloading, managed containers, logging & monitoring
- Available in 30+ regions across the world
Price comparison
How do Exoscale's prices compare against RunPod?
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VM Small | $10.50 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Tiny) | $43.20 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized) |
VM Medium | $67.20 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large) | $86.40 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized) |
VM Large | $168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-optimized XL) | $172.80 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized) |
Block Storage | $10.00 / mo 100 GB | $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 |
Exoscale GPUs
Name | GPUs | VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Price/h | |
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3080ti Small | 1x 3080ti | 12GB | 12 | 56GB | $1.04 | Source |
P100 Small | 1x P100 | 16GB | 12 | 56GB | $1.17 | Source |
V100 Small | 1x V100 | 16GB | 12 | 56GB | $1.38 | Source |
A5000 Small | 1x A5000 | 24GB | 12 | 56GB | $1.52 | Source |
P100 Medium | 2x P100 | 32GB | 16 | 90GB | $1.71 | Source |
3080ti Medium | 2x 3080ti | 24GB | 24 | 112GB | $1.93 | Source |
V100 Medium | 2x V100 | 32GB | 16 | 90GB | $2.01 | Source |
A40 Small | 1x A40 | 48GB | 12 | 56GB | $2.14 | Source |
P100 Large | 3x P100 | 48GB | 24 | 120GB | $2.25 | Source |
V100 Large | 3x V100 | 48GB | 24 | 120GB | $2.65 | Source |
P100 Huge | 4x P100 | 64GB | 48 | 225GB | $2.82 | Source |
A5000 Medium | 2x A5000 | 48GB | 24 | 112GB | $2.82 | Source |
V100 Huge | 4x V100 | 64GB | 48 | 225GB | $3.32 | Source |
3080ti Large | 4x 3080ti | 48GB | 48 | 224GB | $3.57 | Source |
A40 Medium | 2x A40 | 96GB | 24 | 120GB | $4.27 | Source |
A5000 Large | 4x A5000 | 96GB | 48 | 224GB | $5.18 | Source |
A40 Large | 4x A40 | 192GB | 48 | 224GB | $8.54 | Source |
A40 Huge | 8x A40 | 384GB | 96 | 448GB | $17.06 | Source |
RunPod GPUs
Name | GPUs | VRAM | vCPUs | RAM | Price/h | |
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A30 | 1x A30 | 24GB | 8 | 31GB | $0.22 | Source |
RTX A4000 | 1x A4000 | 16GB | 4 | 20GB | $0.32 | Source |
A4500 | 1x A4500 | 20GB | 4 | 29GB | $0.34 | Source |
A5000 | 1x A5000 | 24GB | 4 | 24GB | $0.36 | Source |
A40 | 1x A40 | 48GB | 9 | 50GB | $0.39 | Source |
RTX4090 | 1x RTX 4090 | 24GB | 5 | 30GB | $0.69 | Source |
A6000 | 1x A6000 | 48GB | 8 | 62GB | $0.76 | Source |
L40S | 1x L40S | 48GB | 12 | 62GB | $0.86 | Source |
A6000 Ada | 1x A6000 | 48GB | 14 | 58GB | $0.88 | Source |
RTX 5090 | 1x RTX 5090 | 32GB | 16 | 93GB | $0.89 | Source |
L40 | 1x L40 | 48GB | 8 | 94GB | $0.99 | Source |
A100 PCIe | 1x A100 | 80GB | 8 | 117GB | $1.64 | Source |
A100 SXM | 1x A100 | 80GB | 16 | 125GB | $1.89 | Source |
MI250 | 1x MI250 | 128GB | -- | -- | $2.10 | Source |
H100 PCIe | 1x H100 | 80GB | 16 | 188GB | $2.39 | Source |
H100 SXM | 1x H100 | 80GB | 16 | 125GB | $2.99 | Source |
MI300X | 1x MI300X | 192GB | 24 | 283GB | $2.99 | Source |
H200 SXM | 1x H200 | 141GB | 12 | 188GB | $3.99 | 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 RunPod offer:
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Block Storage | ||
Content Delivery Network (CDN) | -- | |
GPU-powered Servers | ||
Load Balancer | -- | |
Managed Containers | -- | |
Managed Kubernetes | -- | |
Managed MySQL | -- | |
Managed PostgreSQL | -- | |
Managed Redis®* | -- | |
Object Storage | -- | |
Virtual Private Server (VPS) |
Company details
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Website | www.exoscale.com | www.runpod.io |
Headquarters | Switzerland 🇨🇭 | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2011 | 2022 |
Data Center Locations | 7 | 24 |
Example Customers | -- | AfterShoot, Replika, Otovo, Data Science Dojo, Abzu |
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Website | www.exoscale.com |
Headquarters | Switzerland 🇨🇭 |
Founded | 2011 |
Data Center Locations | 7 |
Example Customers | -- |
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Website | www.runpod.io |
Headquarters | United States of America 🇺🇸 |
Founded | 2022 |
Data Center Locations | 24 |
Example Customers | AfterShoot, Replika, Otovo, Data Science Dojo, Abzu |
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Our data for Exoscale was last updated on Nov. 18, 2024, and for RunPod on Nov. 9, 2024.