Exoscale vs Scaleway

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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

Scaleway

Plenty managed services available, from queues to serverless to databases
Wide range of server configurations: Bare-metal, ARM, GPUs, Apple silicon
Uncomplicated, easy to use dashboard
Based in Europe, may ease compliance requirements for some

Price comparison

How do Exoscale's prices compare against Scaleway?

Example configuration	Exoscale	Scaleway
VM Small	$10.50 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Tiny)	$10.58 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium	$67.20 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large)	$41.27 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large	$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-optimized XL)	$168.24 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage	$10.00 / mo 100 GB	$10.05 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$19.80 / mo 1 TB	$15.34 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$25.00 / mo Network Load Balancer	$12.19 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL	$98.49 / mo 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Startup-4)	$33.86 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	$42.44 / mo 2 GB RAM (Hobbyist-2)	$37.03 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions	--	$27.78 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	1 TB / mo per instance	--
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$20.00 $0.02 / GB	Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size

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

Scaleway offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
L4-1-24G	1x L4	24GB	8	48GB	$0.79	Source
GPU-3070	1x RTX3070	8GB	8	16GB	$1.04	Source
Render-S	1x P100	16GB	10	42GB	$1.31	Source
L40S-1-48G	1x L40S	48GB	8	96GB	$1.48	Source
L4-2-24G	2x L4	48GB	16	96GB	$1.59	Source
H100-1-80G	1x H100	80GB	24	240GB	$2.67	Source
L40S-2-48G	2x L40S	96GB	16	192GB	$2.96	Source
L4-4-24G	4x L4	96GB	32	192GB	$3.17	Source
H100-2-80G	2x H100	160GB	48	480GB	$5.33	Source
L40S-4-48G	4x L40S	192GB	32	384GB	$5.93	Source
L4-8-24G	8x L4	192GB	64	384GB	$6.35	Source
L40S-8-48G	8x L40S	384GB	64	768GB	$11.85	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 Scaleway offer:

Service	Exoscale	Scaleway
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 Functions	--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

	Exoscale	Scaleway
Website	www.exoscale.com	scaleway.com
Headquarters	Switzerland 🇨🇭	France 🇫🇷
Founded	2011	1999
Data Center Locations	7	9
Example Customers	--	Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai