Exoscale vs GPU.ai
General-purpose cloud against GPU specialist, priced against each other on the 3 GPUs both of them rent. Published per-GPU on-demand rates as each provider last stated them, with what their own pages say about billing, commitment and egress beside the numbers.
GPU.ai is cheaper on 3 of the 3 cards both of them rent, by a median of 53%.
- How they sell
- General-purpose cloud A hosting company where GPUs sit beside the VPS products, on the same account and billing.
- GPU models
- 7 23 offers
- Registered in
- 🇨🇭 Switzerland
- How they sell
- GPU specialist An operator whose whole business is renting these cards.
- GPU models
- 20 25 offers
- Registered in
- 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
These are not the same product. A general-purpose cloud and a GPU specialist differ in who your counterparty is, which is why the rates below can be far apart without either being wrong. The prices are comparable; what stands behind them is not.
The 3 cards both of them rent, cheapest published per-GPU on-demand rate each. Dearest first.
| GPU | Exoscale | GPU.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB | $2.00/hr | $1.69/hr | 15% cheaper on GPU.ai |
| NVIDIA A40 48GB | $1.05/hr | $0.49/hr | 53% cheaper on GPU.ai |
| NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB | $1.14/hr | $0.27/hr | 76% cheaper on GPU.ai |
Per GPU per hour, on-demand list prices as each provider last published them. Rates exclude tax and vary by region; a cheaper rate is not the same machine, the same network or the same support.
| Exoscale | GPU.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing granularityOn short jobs this outweighs the rate: an hour minimum on a 90-second run costs more than a 30% dearer per-second rate. | Per second, flat rate across all zones | Per second |
| Minimum commitment | None on-demand; volume plans set one deliberately | $5 minimum deposit, no term |
| Payment model | Pay only for what you consume | Prepaid credit balance with burn rate and runway |
| Egress | Outbound transfer charged; rates on the calculator | not stated |
| Regions | European zones including Zurich (CH-DK-2) and Frankfurt (DE-FRA-1) | 8 regions: US East/Central/West, Canada, EU West, EU East, India South, Asia-Pacific |
Neither site tells you whether your data trains their models, an uptime SLA, whether you get credits when it breaks or what network speed you get. We looked on both and record the absence rather than filling it in — if you need any of it, ask before you commit.
- NVIDIA A30 24GB$0.74/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti 12GB$0.79/hr
- NVIDIA Tesla V100 16GB$0.83/hr
- NVIDIA RTX A4500 20GB$0.19/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada 16GB$0.24/hr
- NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB$0.40/hr
- NVIDIA L4 24GB$0.44/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 3090 24GB$0.50/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB$0.65/hr
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell 32GB$0.72/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 4090 24GB$0.74/hr
- NVIDIA L40 48GB$0.78/hr
- NVIDIA L40S 48GB$0.79/hr
- NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40GB$0.89/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB$0.99/hr
Is Exoscale cheaper than GPU.ai?
GPU.ai is cheaper on 3 of the 3 cards both of them rent, by a median of 53%.
Which GPUs do Exoscale and GPU.ai both rent?
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB, NVIDIA A40 48GB, NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB — 3 in total, on published per-GPU on-demand rates.
What is the cheapest GPU at Exoscale and at GPU.ai?
Of the cards both rent, Exoscale starts at $1.05 per GPU-hour and GPU.ai at $0.27.
Are Exoscale and GPU.ai the same kind of provider?
No. Exoscale is a general-purpose cloud — a hosting company where GPUs sit beside the VPS products, on the same account and billing. GPU.ai is a GPU specialist — an operator whose whole business is renting these cards. The rates are comparable; what stands behind them is not.