Exoscale vs Nebius AI: Pricing, Specs, Strengths & Weaknesses

Exoscale is a Swiss cloud provider offering A100 and L40S GPU instances with strict Swiss privacy law and GDPR compliance, making it a strong on-demand GPU cloud option for regulated industries requiring Swiss data sovereignty. Per-minute billing with no minimum commitment provides cost-efficient access to GPU compute for AI inference and training workloads in Swiss and EU data centers. A strong choice for financial services, healthcare, and other regulated sectors that need GPU compute within Swiss jurisdiction.

Nebius AI is a high-performance AI cloud offering non-virtualized H100, H200, and Blackwell GPU clusters with InfiniBand, documented MTBF/MTTR (8-minute mean time to resolution, 6-hour mean time between failures for 3,000 GPUs, per Nebius-published figures), and competitive TCO for fine-tuning and inference. Trusted by Revolut (200+ H100s, 1.2M chat tickets/month), Shopify, Recraft, and Photoroom. NVIDIA Reference Platform Cloud Partner. Includes built-in MLOps tooling, serverless inference (Token Factory), managed inference, DataOps, and ModelOps. $27B supply agreement with Meta. EU data residency, GDPR compliant.