Exoscale
vs
Runpod
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
- GPUs from RTX 3070 to B300 in one catalog
- Serverless GPU endpoints that scale to zero
- Built-in deployments, autoscaling & monitoring
- No ingress or egress fees
- SOC 2 Type II certified
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Exoscale | Runpod | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $10.50 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Tiny) | $43.20 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized) | 76% cheaper on Exoscale |
| Medium VM | $67.20 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large) | $86.40 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized) | 22% cheaper on Exoscale |
| Large VM | $168.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-optimized XL) | $172.80 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized) | Within 5% |
| Block storage | $10.08 /mo 100 GB | $10.00 /mo 100 GB | Within 5% |
| Object storage | $25.28 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress (Standard) | -- Not listed | |
| PostgreSQL | $98.49 /mo 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Startup-4) | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | $42.44 /mo 1 GB RAM (Hobbyist-2 / Valkey) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $25.00 /mo Network Load Balancer | -- Not listed | |
| Egress allowance | 1 TiB / mo per instance (1.42 GiB / hr) | Free and unlimited | |
| Egress | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB | Free and unlimited |
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 Runpod offers 35. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Exoscale | Runpod | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
B300
1 config · 4 configs
|
-- On request | $7.89 /GPU/hr On-demand | |
|
RTX PRO 6000
4 configs · 7 configs
|
$2.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.64 /GPU/hr On-demand | 18% cheaper on Runpod |
|
V100
4 configs · 4 configs
|
$0.83 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.19 /GPU/hr On-demand | 77% cheaper on Runpod |
|
A40
4 configs · 5 configs
|
$1.05 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.49 /GPU/hr On-demand | 53% cheaper on Runpod |
|
A5000
3 configs · 3 configs
|
$1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.16 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | 86% cheaper on Runpod |
|
RTX 3080 Ti
3 configs · 2 configs
|
$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.18 /GPU/hr On-demand | 77% cheaper on Runpod |
|
A30
4 configs
|
$0.74 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Exoscale only |
|
H100
14 configs
|
-- | $2.59 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
B200
3 configs
|
-- | $6.79 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
|
H200
8 configs
|
-- | $3.59 /GPU/hr On-demand | Runpod only |
Exoscale bills on-demand; Runpod bills on-demand. 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.
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 | Runpod |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2011 | 2022 |
| Headquarters | Switzerland | USA |
| Locations | 8 | 33 |
| Example customers | -- | Civitai, Cognition, Cursor, Hugging Face, Perplexity, Replit |
| Website | www.exoscale.com | www.runpod.io |
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Our data for Exoscale was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Runpod on Oct. 2, 2026.