GPUBank vs Exoscale
Exoscale is a Swiss cloud provider founded in 2011, part of the A1 Telekom Austria group, with eight zones in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Bulgaria and Croatia. It does not offer the H100; its largest public GPU, the RTX PRO 6000, costs $2.00 to $2.15 per GPU-hour against $1.85 for an H100 SXM and $1.15 for an RTX PRO 6000 at GPUBank. Exoscale offers certified European hosting and a 99.95% SLA; GPUBank offers data center GPUs such as the H100, H200 and B200, launched from the console.
GPUBank
Tallinn, Estonia
RTX PRO 6000
$1.15 / h
- vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4 and traffic included
- Per-second billing after the health check
- Top up in Bitcoin, USDT and 12+ other coins
vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4 and traffic included
Exoscale
Lausanne, Switzerland · since 2011
RTX PRO 6000
$2.00 / h
- ISO 27001, 27017, 27018, BSI C5, HDS, TISAX and SOC 2 listed
- 99.95% monthly compute SLA with service credits
- Eight zones in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Bulgaria and Croatia
Exoscale
European cloud
Switzerland25 points compared9 of their pages readprices last checked on 29 September 2026page updated 2 November 2026
The verdict
Certified European hosting at Exoscale. Data center GPUs and lower prices at GPUBank.
Exoscale suits European companies that need ISO 27001, BSI C5 or TISAX paperwork, a written 99.95% SLA with service credits and invoicing. Its catalogue is mostly older or workstation GPUs, with no H100, H200 or A100, and the B300 is on request. GPU access starts at a quota of zero and is opened by support after a manual review. On the RTX PRO 6000, the one GPU both of us list, GPUBank costs 42 % less, with local NVMe and traffic included.
ExoscaleGPUBank 01The real cost
The same GPUs, side by side, per hour.
Every GPU model both of us rent, at each provider's own published price for one card, in US dollars, excluding VAT. Prices last checked on 29 September 2026.
| GPU | Exoscale per hour | GPUBank per hour | Difference | 100 h at Exoscale | 100 h at GPUBank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 RTX PRO 600096 GB |
$2.00 | $1.15 | −42 % | $200.00 | $115.00 |
A 70B inference box, 200 h on an RTX PRO 6000
Exoscale
$400.00
GPUBank
$230.00
Saves $170.00 at GPUBank (−43 %)
02Their catalogue
Every GPU Exoscale lists.
7 GPU models listed by Exoscale, each at its lowest public price per GPU-hour. 1 of them is also rented at GPUBank (in blue).
B300288 GB · on demandNo price
A4048 GB · on demand$1.05
A3024 GB · on demand$0.74
V10016 GB · on demand$0.83- RTX PRO 600096 GB · on demand$2.00
RTX A500024 GB · on demand$1.14
RTX 3080 Ti12 GB · on demand$0.79
03What the price includes
What appears on the bill besides the GPU.
The same RTX PRO 6000 session of 2 h 14 m 03 s, line by line, as each provider describes its billing.
Exoscale
2 h 14 m 03 s on RTX PRO 6000
- GPU · $2.00 / h
- $4.47
- vCPU and RAM
- Included
- Storage
- 0.1008 per GiB-month, block storage
- Egress
- $0.02 per GiB beyond about 1 TiB a month
- Public IPv4
- One IPv4 and IPv6 included
- Billing granularity
- Per second
- Minimum charge
- Not published
GPUBank
2 h 14 m 03 s on RTX PRO 6000
- GPU · $1.15 / h
- $2.57
- vCPU and RAM
- Included
- Storage
- Local NVMe included; persistent disk $0.03 per GB-month
- Egress
- Included
- Public IPv4
- Included
- Billing granularity
- Per second, from the health check
- Minimum charge
- None
While stopped
What keeps running on the bill.
Exoscale
Compute stops; local SSD and volumes billed.
Storage costs 0.1008 per GiB-month at 720 h, against $0.03 per GB-month at GPUBank.
GPUBank
Only the persistent disk, $0.03 per GB-month. Compute, IPv4 and scratch cost nothing.
04Where the GPUs run
5 countries against 4, and where they are.
Countries where Exoscale says its GPUs run, from its own region list or documentation, against GPUBank's four regions. A pin marks a country, not the exact site.
Germany
Austria
Switzerland
Bulgaria
Croatia
Paris
Frankfurt
Ashburn
Singapore
Exoscale5
Germany
Austria- Switzerland
Bulgaria
Croatia
GPUBank4
Paris- Frankfurt
Ashburn
Singapore
Exoscale · 5 countriesGPUBank · 4 regions
05Paying and signing up
How each one takes your money.
Exoscale
Payments and sign-up
Payment methods
SEPA bank transfer
No cryptoMinimum top-up Not published
To start
- 1Email and password
- 2Card or PayPal prepaid top-up
- 3Manual screening before GPU access
- 4GPU quota request via support ticket
Billing modelPrepaid; postpaid invoice for organizations
GPUBank
Payments and sign-up
Payment methods
A prepaid USD balance, topped up in crypto. Every GPU-second is drawn from it.
Minimum top-up $25
To start
- 1Email and password
- 2Top up in crypto
- 3Launch a GPU
Billing modelPrepaid balance
06Trust and support
Certificates, uptime and who answers.
| Exoscale | GPUBank | |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Listed, report not public | Not published |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | Not published |
| HIPAA | BAA available | No |
| GDPR DPA | DPA available | Published DPA, applies automatically |
| Availability target | 99.95% monthly, with service credits | 99.9 % monthly, per region |
| Status page | Not published | Public status page |
| Support | Free best-effort tickets; paid tiers to 24/7 | Tickets from a $25 balance |
07Their site, our site
What you see before you pay.
Both sites as a visitor sees them, without an account: the Exoscale pricing page captured on 29 September 2026, and GPUBank's live board. Cookie banners and chat bubbles are closed; nothing else is edited.
- 1Exact hourly prices are public without an account, with a EUR, CHF and USD toggle that shows the same figures in each currency.
- 2Each GPU table repeats that GPU access is opened on request.
- 3The GPU overview lists the RTX 3080 Ti with 1 to 8 GPUs, while the pricing page lists at most 4.
- 1Live stock per region and every price, without an account.
- 2Per-hour and per-second prices, with vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4 and traffic in them.
- 3A machine-readable price feed at /prices.json.
08The spec sheet
25 points, read off both sites.
GPUBank aheadExoscale aheadEven
| Criterion | GPUBank | Exoscale |
|---|---|---|
| Price and catalogue | ||
| H100 SXM, per GPU-hourClosest GPU. $2.00 per GPU-hour on 8 GPUs, $2.15 on one. | $1.85, all-in | No H100; RTX PRO 6000 from $2.00 |
| Cheapest GPU-hour | $0.23, RTX 4090 | $0.74, A30 in a 4-GPU VM |
| GPU models listed | 10 | 7 |
| What the GPU price includesLocal SSD has a 100 GB minimum on GPU instances. | vCPU, RAM, NVMe, IPv4, traffic | vCPU and RAM; local SSD billed extra |
| Billing | ||
| Billing granularity | Per second | Per second |
| Minimum charge | None | Not published |
| Stopped instanceStorage costs 0.1008 per GiB-month at 720 h, against $0.03 per GB-month at GPUBank. | Disk only | Compute stops; local SSD and volumes billed |
| Persistent storage | $0.03 per GB-month | 0.1008 per GiB-month, block storage |
| Egress trafficFree tier of 1.42 GiB per hour per running instance, pooled across the organization. | Included | $0.02 per GiB beyond about 1 TiB a month |
| Public IPv4 | Included | One IPv4 and IPv6 included |
| Billing model | Prepaid balance | Prepaid; postpaid invoice for organizationsAhead |
| Payment and sign-up | ||
| Crypto payments | Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more | No |
| Card payments | No | Visa, MasterCard, Amex, PayPalAhead |
| Minimum deposit | $25 | Not published |
| Platform | ||
| API and CLI | REST API, CLI, Python SDK | API and exo CLI |
| Terraform | Official provider | Official provider |
| Serverless GPUs | No | No serverless GPU |
| Managed Kubernetes | No | SKS managed, with GPU nodesAhead |
| Ready-made templates | 25 | OS templates and an NGC template |
| Interruptible or spot | Yes, 40 % off | No |
| GPUs per instance | Up to 8 | Up to 8 |
| Multi-node interconnect | Not offered | Not published |
| Network and regions | ||
| Regions | 4 | 8 zonesAhead |
| Countries | France, Germany, US, Singapore | Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Bulgaria, CroatiaAhead |
| EU regionsEach GPU family sits in one or a few zones. | Paris, Frankfurt | All 8 zones are in EuropeAhead |
| Trust and support | ||
| Availability target | 99.9 % monthly | 99.95% monthly, with service creditsAhead |
| Compliance reports | None published | ISO 27001, SOC 2, BSI C5, HDS, TISAXAhead |
| Public status page | Yes | Not published |
| Support | Tickets from a $25 balance | Free best-effort tickets; paid tiers to 24/7Ahead |
09The right fit
Different needs. A clear choice.
What Exoscale does better
- ISO 27001, 27017, 27018, BSI C5, HDS, TISAX and SOC 2 listed
- 99.95% monthly compute SLA with service credits
- Eight zones in Germany, Austria, Switzerland, Bulgaria and Croatia
- Cards, PayPal, bank transfer and postpaid invoicing for organizations
- SKS managed Kubernetes with GPU nodes
Choose GPUBank if
- H100, H200, A100, B200 and MI300X self-serve; Exoscale lists none
- RTX PRO 6000 at $1.15 per GPU-hour, against $2.00 to $2.15
- GPUs ready to launch, with no quota to raise first
- Local NVMe, IPv4 and all traffic included in the GPU price
- Interruptible at -40 % and Bitcoin or USDT top-ups
Moving from Exoscale takes an afternoon.
Exoscale runs standard KVM VMs, so block volumes and snapshots can be exported and custom templates downloaded. Egress beyond the free tier costs 0.02 per GiB.
- 1Launch the GPU you need on GPUBank with a persistent disk in Frankfurt or Paris.
- 2Copy block volumes with rsync, or pull from Exoscale's S3-compatible object storage with rclone.
- 3Run your stack as a Docker image or pick the matching template, then delete the Exoscale instances and volumes.
# 1. a GPU and a disk on GPUBank gpubank launch --gpu rtx-pro-6000 --region eu-paris --disk data # 2. copy your data from the old machine rsync -azP old-host:/workspace/ root@<new-ip>:/workspace/ # 3. run the same image or template ssh root@<new-ip> 'cd /workspace && ./start.sh'
A few things you might be wondering.
No. Exoscale lists no H100, H200 or A100. Its public GPUs are the RTX PRO 6000, A40, A30, RTX A5000, Tesla V100 and GeForce RTX 3080 Ti, and the B300 is priced on request. GPUBank rents the H100 SXM at $1.85 per GPU-hour.
Yes. Exoscale charges $2.00 per GPU-hour on an 8-GPU VM and $2.15 on a single GPU, with local SSD billed on top. GPUBank charges $1.15 per GPU-hour with vCPU, RAM, NVMe and traffic included. Exoscale shows the same figures in EUR and CHF, so an EUR account pays more in USD terms.
Not right away. The default GPU quota is zero, and GPU types are activated by support after a manual review. On GPUBank, a GPU can be launched as soon as the balance is topped up.
Exoscale. It lists ISO 27001, 27017 and 27018, BSI C5, HDS, TISAX and SOC 2, and a 99.95% compute SLA with service credits. GPUBank publishes no SOC 2 or ISO 27001 report and targets 99.9 % per region.
Compute stops, but the local SSD, attached volumes and licences keep billing. Storage costs 0.00014 per GiB-hour, with a 100 GB minimum local SSD on GPU instances. On GPUBank a stopped instance costs only its persistent disk, at $0.03 per GB-month.
Without. Every price on this page excludes VAT and sales tax, for Exoscale and for GPUBank, so the two columns compare like for like. Tax is added at checkout according to where the buyer is based.
Sources
Every figure about Exoscale was read on its own pages or official documentation. Prices last checked on 29 September 2026.
- 01exoscale.com/pricing/GPU instance prices in EUR and USD, storage, network, inference, SKS, support prices, billing FAQ
- 02exoscale.com/gpu/GPU catalogue, zones, specs, Terraform
- 03exoscale.com/faq/general/Prepaid/postpaid, PayPal, bank transfer, stopped machines, HQ, BAA
- 04community.exoscale.com/product/compute/instances/service-boundaries/limits-and-quotas/GPU quota 0 by default, activation by support
- 05exoscale.com/datacenters/Zones and cities
- 06exoscale.com/about/Akenes SA, founded 2011, A1 group
- 07exoscale.com/sla/Uptime guarantees
- 08exoscale.com/compliance/Certifications
- 09exoscale.com/support/Support tiers and response times
What we could not verify (8)
- 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
In short
GPUBank vs Exoscale, in facts.
The essentials of this comparison in one table, for quick readers and AI assistants. Prices last checked on 29 September 2026.
Read as Markdown- H100 SXM, per GPU-hour
- Exoscale: No H100; RTX PRO 6000 from $2.00
GPUBank: $1.85, all-in - Cheapest GPU-hour
- Exoscale: $0.74, A30 in a 4-GPU VM
GPUBank: $0.23, RTX 4090 - Billing granularity
- Exoscale: Per second
GPUBank: Per second - Stopped instance
- Exoscale: Compute stops; local SSD and volumes billed
GPUBank: Disk only - Persistent storage
- Exoscale: 0.1008 per GiB-month, block storage
GPUBank: $0.03 per GB-month - Egress traffic
- Exoscale: $0.02 per GiB beyond about 1 TiB a month
GPUBank: Included - Crypto payments
- Exoscale: No
GPUBank: Bitcoin, USDT, Ethereum and 12+ more - Card payments
- Exoscale: Visa, MasterCard, Amex, PayPal
GPUBank: No - Minimum deposit
- Exoscale: Not published
GPUBank: $25 - GPU models listed
- Exoscale: 7
GPUBank: 10 - Regions
- Exoscale: 8 zones
GPUBank: 4 - Serverless GPUs
- Exoscale: No serverless GPU
GPUBank: No - Availability target
- Exoscale: 99.95% monthly, with service credits
GPUBank: 99.9 % monthly - Compliance reports
- Exoscale: ISO 27001, SOC 2, BSI C5, HDS, TISAX
GPUBank: None published - Support
- Exoscale: Free best-effort tickets; paid tiers to 24/7
GPUBank: Tickets from a $25 balance - Headquarters
- Exoscale: Lausanne, Switzerland
GPUBank: Tallinn, Estonia
How this page was made
Every price and policy of Exoscale was read on its own website, documentation or public API on 29 September 2026, with the address of each page listed above. A value we could not read on a primary source is marked "Not published" rather than estimated. GPUBank figures come from this site and its terms. Prices change: check both providers before you buy. Exoscale, its logo and its website belong to their owner and are shown only to identify the service compared. GPUBank is not affiliated with Exoscale.
