Exoscale

Exoscale is a Swiss infrastructure provider selling KVM instances, managed Kubernetes, object and block storage and managed databases from European zones.

www.exoscale.compricingstatus

Swiss face, Austrian owner.

Classification

Categories: Virtual Private Servers, GPU cloud
Operating system: Self-managed
Metal: Owns the hardware
Use cases: Web apps, API backends, Data pipelines, AI and LLM apps, Background jobs and queues, Internal tools, Game servers
Audience: Startups, Small and medium businesses, Enterprises, Government and public sector, Agencies

Tech stack

Runtimes: Docker, Anything
Shell: Root shell
Managed databases: PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, OpenSearch, Valkey
GPU: GPU instances

Pricing

Pricing model: Per hour2
Entry price: $5 to $15 a month 2
Starting price: from €0.0056 an hour2
Typical ceiling: $150 to $500 a month2
Currencies: CHF, EUR, USD 2
Billed: Hourly, Monthly2
Exit: Within a day 3
Free tier: None2

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Exoscale is the trading name of Akenes SA in Lausanne. Despite the Swiss identity it belongs to A1 Digital, part of the Vienna-listed A1 Telekom Austria Group, so ownership traces back to an Austrian telco.

Zones sit in Switzerland, Austria, Germany and Croatia, each one independent so that a zone failure does not propagate. The catalogue covers compute instances, dedicated hypervisors, SKS managed Kubernetes, object and block storage, managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kafka, OpenSearch, Valkey and Grafana, plus DNS, KMS, IAM and GPU instances. The platform is CloudStack-derived, which is why Apache Libcloud can drive it directly, and a community-maintained Ansible collection sits alongside the official CLI and Terraform provider. Documentation pages are served as Markdown as well as HTML, by appending index.md to the URL.

Worth knowing

The pricing page and the marketing copy do not agree on the zone list: a Sofia zone named in the copy has no entry on the pricing page, so Bulgaria is not recorded here.

Identity

Founded: 2011
Reach: ↓971 1
Ownership: Subsidiary
Parent: A1 Telekom Austria Group
Status: Active

Deployment

Deployment: Control panel, Container image

Regions and law

Regions: Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Croatia 2
Headquarters: Switzerland

Other features

DNS hosting: Included2
CDN: Included2

Support

Support: Email, Chat
Tiering: Better on paid plans

Automation

CLI: Official
API: Public
Infrastructure as code: Terraform

Sources

2026-09-07: Reach
majestic.com/reports/majestic-million
2026-08-01: Regions, Starting price, Pricing model, Free tier, Entry price, Typical ceiling, Currencies, Billed, DNS hosting, CDN
www.exoscale.com/pricing/
2026-08-02: Exit
www.exoscale.com/terms/

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Last reviewed 2026-08-12 · Updated 2026-09-07 · Listed since 2026-07-31Edit on GitHub This page as markdown

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