Operator · Lausanne, CH · founded 2011
Exoscale
Swiss cloud provider (A1 Telekom Austria group) with eight European zones, selling GPU VMs from RTX 3080 Ti to RTX PRO 6000 per second, with GPU access gated by manual business screening.
GPU types6with a current offer
Current offers5353 readings on file · last 45 days
H100 from—per GPU-hour, on-demand
Entry price$0.74cheapest GPU-hour listed
Countries58 named regions
Trust Score v0.184/100
- Company & track record100
- Infrastructure control100
- Pricing & billing transparency100
- Reliability signals45
- Security & compliance80
- Customer signal—
Scored Sep 29, 2026 from the provider's own pages. Dimensions not yet measured are excluded from the denominator. Criteria ↓
Trust Score · 5 of 6 dimensions measuredThe score, criterion by criterion
Each point comes from something the provider publishes, with the page it was read on and the date. Anything not disclosed earns zero.
Company & track record
weight 15%
100 / 100
| Founding year published | 2011exoscale.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Headquarters published | Akenes SAexoscale.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
| Legal entity named | Akenes SAexoscale.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Funding or ownership disclosed | Member of A1 Digital, part of A1 Telekom Austria Group (listed on Vienna Stock Exchange)exoscale.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
Infrastructure control
weight 15%
100 / 100
| Capacity model published | operates or rents dedicated capacityexoscale.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 10 / 10 |
| Regions published | 8 regions or countriesexoscale.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
Pricing & billing transparency
weight 20%
100 / 100
| Public prices without an account | yes (read on the pricing page)exoscale.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
| Billing granularity published | per secondexoscale.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Egress policy published | metered: 0.02 per GiB beyond free tier of 1.42 GiB/hour per running instance (about 1 TiB/month), pooled across the organization; inbound and inter-zone freeexoscale.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Stopped-instance billing published | Compute not billed; local SSD volume, attached block storage and licences keep billingexoscale.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Public IPv4 policy published | included (one public IPv4 and IPv6 per instance); extra Elastic IP 0.01389 per hourexoscale.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
Reliability signals
weight 20%
45 / 100
| Status page | not disclosedexoscale.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 6 |
| SLA published | 99.95% monthly uptime for Compute Instances, SKS Pro, Block Storage, Dedicated Inference; 99.99% DBaaS; service creditsexoscale.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 6 / 6 |
| SLA with a numeric uptime commitment | 99.95% monthly uptime for Compute Instances, SKS Pro, Block Storage, Dedicated Inference; 99.99% DBaaS; service creditsexoscale.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
| Uptime history published | not disclosedexoscale.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 5 |
| Observed availability (30 days) | not measured yet | — |
Security & compliance
weight 15%
80 / 100
| SOC 2 | SOC-2 listed (type not stated on compliance page)exoscale.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 8 |
| ISO 27001 | ISO/IEC 27001:2022exoscale.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| HIPAA or GDPR DPA | BAA available on requestexoscale.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
Customer signal
weight 15%
not measured
| Aggregated public reviews | not collected yet | — |
provisional v0.1: evidence from the provider's own pages; dimensions not yet measured are excluded from the denominatorFull method →
Prices by GPU · 6 GPU types with a current offerWhat Exoscale charges, against the market
Cheapest current on-demand true cost here, next to the market median for the same GPU. Negative means cheaper than the market.
| GPU | Cheapest here | Market median | vs market | Current offers | Modes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RTX PRO 6000 | $2.00 | $2.15 | −7% | 4 | on-demand | RTX PRO 6000 prices |
| Tesla V100 16GB | $0.83 | $1.71 | −51% | 4 | on-demand | Tesla V100 16GB prices |
| A30 | $0.74 | $0.77 | −4% | 4 | on-demand | A30 prices |
| A40 | $1.05 | $0.90 | +16% | 4 | on-demand | A40 prices |
| RTX A5000 | $1.14 | $0.27 | +329% | 3 | on-demand | RTX A5000 prices |
| RTX 3080 Ti | $0.79 | $0.11 | +626% | 3 | on-demand | RTX 3080 Ti prices |
All offers · 53 readings on fileEvery Exoscale offer, with its receipt
Current offers (last 45 days) ranked by true cost, all rental modes, each with its read date. Older readings stay listed below, in grey.
| GPU | Configuration | Mode | Region | Stock | List | True cost | Read | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A30 | 4× A3048 vCPU · 225 GB RAM | On-demand | Switzerland | Stock unknown | $0.74 | $0.74 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 3080 Tioutlier · suspended | 4× RTX 3080 Ti48 vCPU · 224 GB RAM | On-demand | Austria | Stock unknown | $0.79 | $0.79 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A30 | 3× A3024 vCPU · 120 GB RAM | On-demand | Switzerland | Stock unknown | $0.79 | $0.79 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| Tesla V100 16GB | 4× Tesla V100 16GB48 vCPU · 225 GB RAM | On-demand | Austria | Stock unknown | $0.83 | $0.83 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 3080 Tioutlier · suspended | 2× RTX 3080 Ti24 vCPU · 112 GB RAM | On-demand | Austria | Stock unknown | $0.85 | $0.85 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| Tesla V100 16GB | 3× Tesla V100 16GB24 vCPU · 120 GB RAM | On-demand | Austria | Stock unknown | $0.88 | $0.88 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A30 | 2× A3016 vCPU · 90 GB RAM | On-demand | Switzerland | Stock unknown | $0.90 | $0.90 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX 3080 Tioutlier · suspended | 1× RTX 3080 Ti12 vCPU · 56 GB RAM | On-demand | Austria | Stock unknown | $0.92 | $0.92 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| Tesla V100 16GB | 2× Tesla V100 16GB16 vCPU · 90 GB RAM | On-demand | Austria | Stock unknown | $1.01 | $1.01 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A40 | 1× A4012 vCPU · 56 GB RAM | On-demand | Germany | Stock unknown | $1.05 | $1.05 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A40 | 4× A4048 vCPU · 224 GB RAM | On-demand | Germany | Stock unknown | $1.05 | $1.05 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A40 | 8× A4096 vCPU · 448 GB RAM | On-demand | Germany | Stock unknown | $1.05 | $1.05 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A40 | 2× A4024 vCPU · 120 GB RAM | On-demand | Germany | Stock unknown | $1.05 | $1.05 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX A5000outlier · suspended | 4× RTX A500048 vCPU · 224 GB RAM | On-demand | Austria | Stock unknown | $1.14 | $1.14 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| A30 | 1× A3012 vCPU · 56 GB RAM | On-demand | Switzerland | Stock unknown | $1.23 | $1.23 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX A5000outlier · suspended | 2× RTX A500024 vCPU · 112 GB RAM | On-demand | Austria | Stock unknown | $1.24 | $1.24 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX A5000outlier · suspended | 1× RTX A500012 vCPU · 56 GB RAM | On-demand | Austria | Stock unknown | $1.34 | $1.34 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| Tesla V100 16GB | 1× Tesla V100 16GB12 vCPU · 56 GB RAM | On-demand | Austria | Stock unknown | $1.38 | $1.38 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX PRO 6000 | 8× RTX PRO 6000248 vCPU · 960 GB RAM | On-demand | Austria +3 | Stock unknown | $2.00 | $2.00 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX PRO 6000 | 4× RTX PRO 6000144 vCPU · 480 GB RAM | On-demand | Austria +3 | Stock unknown | $2.05 | $2.05 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX PRO 6000 | 2× RTX PRO 600072 vCPU · 240 GB RAM | On-demand | Austria +3 | Stock unknown | $2.08 | $2.08 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| RTX PRO 6000 | 1× RTX PRO 600036 vCPU · 120 GB RAM | On-demand | Austria +3 | Stock unknown | $2.15 | $2.15 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
22 fresh offers · prices per GPU-hour · true cost includes the add-ons the provider publishesOpen in the comparison tool →
True cost & billing · read Sep 29, 2026What the hourly price does not say
Billing granularity, minimums, what a stopped machine costs, traffic, addresses, deposits and identity checks, as published by the provider.
Billing
- Billing granularity
- per second
- Minimum charge
- not published
- Stopped instance
- Compute not billed; local SSD volume, attached block storage and licences keep billing
- Egress
- metered: 0.02 per GiB beyond free tier of 1.42 GiB/hour per running instance (about 1 TiB/month), pooled across the organization; inbound and inter-zone free
- Public IPv4
- included (one public IPv4 and IPv6 per instance); extra Elastic IP 0.01389 per hour
- Billing model
- both
- Minimum deposit
- not published
- Free credits
- not published
Account
- Payment
- card · PayPal · crypto (not published)
- Sign-up
- email, password, card or PayPal prepaid top-up, manual screening before GPU access (priority to established businesses), GPU quota request via support ticket
- Identity check
- ID on request
- Support
- ticket, phone (Pro and Enterprise)
- Enterprise support
- not published
- SLA
- 99.95% monthly uptime for Compute Instances, SKS Pro, Block Storage, Dedicated Inference; 99.99% DBaaS; service credits
- Status page
- not published
- Published uptime
- not published
Infrastructure
- Regions
8 named regions in 5 countries
DE-FRA-1 (Germany) · DE-MUC-1 (Germany) · AT-VIE-1 (Austria) · AT-VIE-2 (Austria) · CH-GVA-2 (Switzerland) · CH-DK-2 (Switzerland) · BG-SOF-1 (Bulgaria) · HR-ZAG-1 (Croatia)- Countries
- Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Croatia
- Platform
- API, CLI, SSH, persistent volumes, snapshotsTerraform: officialKubernetes: managedClusters: SKS managed Kubernetes with GPU nodes (Starter free, Pro 0.054995/hour with 99.95% SLA); dedicated hypervisors
- Storage
- ephemeral · 0.00014 per GiB-hour (0.1008 per GiB-month at 720 h), same figure in EUR/USD/CHF · Instance local SSD, not included in GPU price, minimum 100 GB on GPU instances; persists while stoppedvolume · 0.00014 per GiB-hour (0.1008 per GiB-month at 720 h) · Block Storage 1 GiB to 10 TiBobject · 0.0000275 per GiB-hour (0.0198 per GiB-month at 720 h) up to 512 TiB · S3-compatible SOS, free retrieval on Standard
- Migration out
- Standard KVM VMs: data on block volumes and snapshots can be exported, custom templates can be uploaded and downloaded; SOS is S3-compatible. Egress beyond the free tier costs 0.02 per GiB.
Security & compliance
- SOC 2
- SOC-2 listed (type not stated on compliance page)
- ISO 27001
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022
- HIPAA
- BAA available on request
- GDPR / DPA
- GDPR compliant, Swiss FDPA
- Other
- ISO 27017, ISO 27018, BSI C5, HDS, CSA STAR, TISAX, SCF
- Legal entity
- Akenes SA
- Funding
- Member of A1 Digital, part of A1 Telekom Austria Group (listed on Vienna Stock Exchange)
Read on the provider's own pages · 9 pages read · facts marked "not published" were looked for and not foundPages read ↓
Assessment · documents read Sep 29, 2026Exoscale, in short
What stood out when we read the documents: strengths, weaknesses, who it suits, and what we could not find.
Strengths
- Per-second billing with published prices down to 8 decimals, no commitment
- Only European zones (Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Croatia), Swiss HQ
- ISO 27001/27017/27018, BSI C5, HDS, TISAX and SOC 2 listed; HIPAA BAA on request
- 99.95% compute SLA with service credits
- PayPal, cards, SEPA/SWIFT transfer and post-paid invoicing
- RTX PRO 6000 up to 8 GPUs per VM; managed Kubernetes (SKS) with GPU nodes; Terraform
Weaknesses
- GPU access requires manual screening with priority to established businesses; default GPU quota is 0
- Catalogue is mostly older or workstation GPUs (V100, A30, A40, A5000, RTX 3080 Ti); no H100, H200 or A100; B300 on request only
- Local SSD is billed on top of the GPU price and keeps billing while stopped
- Egress metered beyond 1.42 GiB/hour per instance
- No spot or interruptible tier, no serverless GPU; GPU VMs are not live-migrated and must be shut down for maintenance
- No crypto payments
Ideal for
- European companies needing GDPR, Swiss or German hosting with ISO/C5 certifications
- Rendering, VDI and inference on A40, A5000 or RTX PRO 6000
- Regulated sectors (health, banking, automotive)
Not published
- B300 price (on request)
- Whether USD-account prices apply to all customers or only by legal residence (FAQ says account currency depends on initial legal residence)
- Minimum top-up amount not found
- Exact documents requested during GPU screening not published
- Status page URL not captured
- SOC 2 report type not stated
- Interconnect between GPUs (NVLink) not published
- Volume discount rates (12-month commitment) not published
Observations
Pricing page shows exact hourly prices without account, with EUR/CHF/USD toggle; figures are identical across currencies
Each GPU table repeats that access needs account validation and manual screening
GPU overview lists RTX 3080 Ti with 1-8 GPUs while pricing lists at most 4
Announcement mentions RTX Pro 6000 in Frankfurt and Zurich; pricing table also lists Zagreb
Pages read
- exoscale.com/pricing/ — GPU instance prices in EUR and USD, storage, network, inference, SKS, support prices, billing FAQ
- exoscale.com/gpu/ — GPU catalogue, zones, specs, Terraform
- exoscale.com/faq/general/ — Prepaid/postpaid, PayPal, bank transfer, stopped machines, HQ, BAA
- community.exoscale.com/product/compute/instances/service-boundaries/limits-and-quotas/ — GPU quota 0 by default, activation by support
- exoscale.com/datacenters/ — Zones and cities
- exoscale.com/about/ — Akenes SA, founded 2011, A1 group
- exoscale.com/sla/ — Uptime guarantees
- exoscale.com/compliance/ — Certifications
- exoscale.com/support/ — Support tiers and response times
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What GPUs does Exoscale offer?
Exoscale has 6 GPU types with a fresh offer today, for example RTX PRO 6000 from $2.00, Tesla V100 16GB from $0.83, A30 from $0.74, A40 from $1.05, RTX A5000 from $1.14, RTX 3080 Ti from $0.79 per GPU-hour on-demand. The full list with prices and market medians is on this page.
How does Exoscale bill?
Billing granularity: per second. Stopped instance: Compute not billed; local SSD volume, attached block storage and licences keep billing
How trustworthy is Exoscale?
Its Trust Score is 84/100 (v0.1), read from its own documents. Strong on company & track record, infrastructure control, pricing & billing transparency. Weaker on reliability signals. The score measures transparency and published guarantees, not customer satisfaction; every criterion and its source is listed above.
Where are Exoscale's data centres?
8 named regions in 5 countries: Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Bulgaria, Croatia.
How do you pay Exoscale, and are there credits?
Payment by card, crypto. No sign-up credit is published. Identity check: ID on request.