Exoscale Compute
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Plans and prices
From Exoscale Compute's own pricing page, checked 10 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Compute Instances | — | Standard, CPU Optimized, Memory Optimized, Storage Optimized, and GPU instance families · Pay-as-you-go; instances billed by the second. Pricing depends on instance type and size; local SSD and block storage are billed separately. |
The facts
Each one read from Exoscale Compute's own pages, with the date it was checked.
The company
- Founded
- 2011checked 28 Sep 2026
- Headquarters
- Lausanne, Switzerlandchecked 28 Sep 2026
What it does
- Instance families
- The product page lists Standard, CPU Optimized, Memory Optimized, Storage Optimized, and GPU instance families.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Instance range
- Predefined configurations range from 1 core and 512 MB RAM to 248 cores and 960 GB on specific GPU instances.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Integrations
- Exoscale lists integrations including Kubernetes, Terraform, Packer, Vault, Pulumi, and Crossplane.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Intended users
- Exoscale describes Compute Instances for developers, startups, enterprises, and teams running workloads such as applications, CI/CD pipelines, analytics, and GPU workloads.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Network traffic
- The Compute page states that inbound and internode traffic between virtual machines is free, as is traffic across zones.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Operating systems
- Supported systems include Ubuntu, Debian, CentOS, Fedora, OpenSUSE, SLES, Windows Server, and OpenBSD.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Provisioning and access
- Instances can be started through the user interface, CLI, or API, and Exoscale says setup takes a few seconds.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Resilience features
- The product supports anti-affinity groups to spread instances across physical hosts, snapshots, and live migration during maintenance.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Scaling and images
- Users can resize instances, deploy instance pools, and upload custom preconfigured images.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Security and compliance
- The maker describes its compute instances as running in ISO-certified European data centers and says users can keep data under sovereign control with GDPR compliance.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Storage and encryption
- Instances use local SSDs, often NVMe, and new instances receive an encrypted root volume with AES-256-XTS encryption at the hypervisor layer by default.checked 10 Oct 2026
- Support
- Free Built-In support is included for all customers; paid plans add guaranteed response times, and Enterprise includes 24/7 support with a dedicated Customer Success Manager.checked 10 Oct 2026
- What it does
- Compute Instances are cloud virtual machines with CPU, memory, and storage for deploying applications and workloads without managing physical servers.checked 10 Oct 2026
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