Exoscale vs Oracle Cloud (GPU)
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Exoscale and Oracle Cloud (GPU).
Quick Verdict
3.8/5
Exoscale
0 reviews
3.8/5
Oracle Cloud (GPU)
0 reviews
Both Exoscale and Oracle Cloud (GPU) are equally rated at 3.8/5. European cloud provider (Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Croatia) offering virtual servers, managed databases, Kubernetes and object storage, with servers from about EUR 9/month. Oracle Cloud Infrastructure includes an always-free A1 Arm allocation (2 OCPUs + 12 GB RAM since July 2026, halved from 4 OCPUs + 24 GB) and GPU shapes from ~$2/GPU-hour (A10 VM) to $10/GPU-hour (H100/H200) and $14-15 (B200/B300).
Exoscale Swiss cloud built for compliance-heavy workloads | Oracle Cloud (GPU) Free A1 Arm instances with optional GPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.8 (0 reviews) | 3.8 (0 reviews) |
| Pricing model | paid | freemium |
| Starting price | From $5.32/mo | Free tier available✓ |
| Best for | European enterprises, fintech, health and public-sector teams needing Swiss/EU data residency, managed Kubernetes and databases, and auditable compliance certifications | Enterprise and serious training/inference workloads that want bare-metal NVIDIA or AMD GPU clusters at hyperscaler-reliable terms, especially MI300X and A100 value seekers and existing Oracle/database customers |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | 1 vCPU | — |
| RAM | 1 GB | — |
| Storage | 10 GB | — |
| Bandwidth | — | — |
| SLA uptime | 99.95%✓ | 99.9% |
| Data-center count | 8 | 50✓ |
| €/vCPU/mo | €5.32 | — |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €5.32 | — |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ✓ | |
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ✓ | |
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | Zurich, Geneva, Frankfurt, Munich, Vienna (x2), Sofia, Zagreb (8 live zones; Madrid upcoming) | 50+ regions across 28 countries (NA, SA, EU, MEA, APAC) |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectionbackups includedmanaged options3 compatibleeu datacentergdpr compliantapi accesskubernetes support | free tiergpu availableeu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenterapi accessarm processors |
| Visit Exoscale → | Visit Oracle Cloud (GPU) → | |
Exoscale
Pros
- + Swiss/EU data sovereignty: GDPR, Swiss FDPA, ISO 27001/27018, SOC 2, BSI C5 — data outside US Cloud Act reach
- + Per-second billing with flat rates across all eight zones and no long-term commitment
- + Managed Kubernetes (SKS) with a genuinely free Starter tier and a 99.95% SLA Pro tier
- + S3-compatible object storage, block storage, GPU servers and a broad managed database catalog
- + Excellent public documentation, Terraform/API/CLI support, and a changelog showing steady platform shipping
Cons
- - Per-hour rates run well above European budget hosts for equivalent specs; local storage billed on top of instance price
- - Snapshots, backups and outbound traffic are metered separately — the instance line is not the full bill
- - Mid-size ecosystem: thinner third-party tooling, tutorials and hiring pool than the hyperscalers
- - GPU availability and some features are zone-dependent; storage-optimized instances cannot take snapshots
- - No bare metal; support tiers must be budgeted separately for round-the-clock coverage
Oracle Cloud (GPU)
Pros
- + Broadest accelerator lineup of any hyperscaler: NVIDIA Blackwell/Hopper/Ampere plus AMD MI300X/MI355X, VMs and bare metal
- + Below-AWS/Azure on-demand GPU list pricing (H100 $10/GPU-hr, A100 80GB $4, MI300X $6) with published, checkable rates
- + Supercluster-class networking (up to 3,200 Gb/sec RDMA) and large local NVMe per node for training checkpoints
- + Credit-backed compute SLA and a full cloud stack (storage, K8s, databases, S3-compatible object) in 50+ regions
Cons
- - GPU quota and capacity processes can require sales engagement; 8-GPU node minimums on the best shapes
- - OCI console/IAM complexity and thinner community documentation than AWS/GCP
- - The 'up to 220% cheaper' claim is a dated vendor comparison; neoclouds undercut on some shapes
- - Egress, storage, image licensing and commitment terms add to headline GPU rates; free tier is CPU-only
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