Exoscale vs Massed Compute
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.
Massed Compute is cheaper on 2 of the 3 cards both of them rent, by a median of 57%. Exoscale is cheaper on the other 1.
- 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
- 15 72 offers
- Registered in
- 🇺🇸 United States
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 | Massed Compute | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB | $2.00/hr | $2.19/hr | 9% cheaper on Exoscale |
| NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB | $1.14/hr | $0.44/hr | 61% cheaper on Massed Compute |
| NVIDIA A30 24GB | $0.74/hr | $0.35/hr | 53% cheaper on Massed Compute |
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 | Massed Compute | |
|---|---|---|
| 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 minute |
| Minimum commitment | None on-demand; volume plans set one deliberately | None; prepaid balance with $5 minimum threshold |
| Payment model | Pay only for what you consume | Prepaid balance with automatic recharge |
| Free credits | not stated | Referral credit 3% of referred spend; coupon codes |
| Egress | Outbound transfer charged; rates on the calculator | Free |
| Uptime SLA | not stated | 99.999% claimed on product page; no SLA document found |
| Regions | European zones including Zurich (CH-DK-2) and Frankfurt (DE-FRA-1) | US regions (e.g. us-central-3); locations not named |
Neither site tells you whether you get credits when it breaks, whether a commitment auto-renews, how long you have to dispute a bill or whether private networking exists. We looked on both and record the absence rather than filling it in — if you need any of it, ask before you commit.
- NVIDIA RTX 3080 Ti 12GB$0.79/hr
- NVIDIA Tesla V100 16GB$0.83/hr
- NVIDIA A40 48GB$1.05/hr
- NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB$0.55/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB$0.79/hr
- NVIDIA L40 48GB$0.86/hr
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell 32GB$0.92/hr
- NVIDIA L40S 48GB$0.97/hr
- NVIDIA A100 80GB$1.35/hr
- NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB$1.38/hr
- NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB$2.73/hr
- NVIDIA H100 NVL 94GB$2.92/hr
- NVIDIA H200 NVL 141GB$3.62/hr
- NVIDIA B200 SXM6 180GB$5.43/hr
- NVIDIA B300 SXM6 288GB$6.60/hr
Is Exoscale cheaper than Massed Compute?
Massed Compute is cheaper on 2 of the 3 cards both of them rent, by a median of 57%. Exoscale is cheaper on the other 1.
Which GPUs do Exoscale and Massed Compute both rent?
NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB, NVIDIA RTX A5000 24GB, NVIDIA A30 24GB — 3 in total, on published per-GPU on-demand rates.
What is the cheapest GPU at Exoscale and at Massed Compute?
Of the cards both rent, Exoscale starts at $0.74 per GPU-hour and Massed Compute at $0.35.
Are Exoscale and Massed Compute 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. Massed Compute is a GPU specialist — an operator whose whole business is renting these cards. The rates are comparable; what stands behind them is not.