Exoscale vs Scaleway

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
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)	$11.32 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium	$67.20 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large)	$44.16 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large	$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-optimized XL)	$180.05 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage	$10.00 / mo 100 GB	$10.76 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$19.80 / mo 1 TB	$16.42 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$25.00 / mo Network Load Balancer	$13.05 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL	$98.49 / mo 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Startup-4)	$36.24 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	$42.44 / mo 2 GB RAM (Hobbyist-2)	$39.63 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions	--	$29.73 / 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 GPUs

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
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
A5000 Medium	2x A5000	48GB	24	112GB	$2.81	Source
P100 Huge	4x P100	64GB	48	225GB	$2.82	Source
V100 Huge	4x V100	64GB	48	225GB	$3.32	Source
3080ti Large	4x 3080ti	48GB	48	224GB	$3.56	Source
A40 Medium	2x A40	96GB	24	120GB	$4.27	Source
A5000 Large	4x A5000	96GB	48	224GB	$5.16	Source
A40 Large	4x A40	192GB	48	224GB	$8.54	Source
A40 Huge	8x A40	384GB	96	448GB	$17.06	Source

Scaleway GPUs

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
L4-1-24G	1x L4	24GB	8	48GB	$0.90	Launch
GPU-3070	1x RTX 3070	8GB	8	16GB	$1.11	Source
Render-S	1x P100	16GB	10	42GB	$1.40	Source
L40S-1-48G	1x L40S	48GB	8	48GB	$1.61	Launch
L4-2-24G	2x L4	48GB	16	96GB	$1.72	Launch
H100-1-80G	1x H100	80GB	24	240GB	$2.85	Launch
L40S-2-48G	2x L40S	96GB	16	192GB	$3.15	Launch
L4-4-24G	4x L4	96GB	32	192GB	$3.37	Source
H100-2-80G	2x H100	160GB	48	480GB	$5.71	Launch
L40S-4-48G	4x L40S	192GB	32	384GB	$6.23	Source
L4-8-24G	8x L4	192GB	64	384GB	$6.67	Launch
L40S-8-48G	8x L40S	384GB	64	768GB	$12.39	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 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