Exoscale Compute vs OpenNebula
Exoscale Compute
exoscale.com
OpenNebula
opennebula.ioSide by side
| Figure | Exoscale Compute | OpenNebula |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | — | — |
| Free plan | — | — |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| Windows | Yes | — |
| Linux | Yes | Yes |
| API | Yes | Yes |
| Self-hosted | — | Yes |
| Plans published | 1 | 7 |
| Spec score · Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Software | 7.4 (#6) | 7.1 (#9) |
| Founded | 2011 | 2005 |
| Headquarters | Lausanne, Switzerland | Pozuelo de Alarcón, Madrid, Spain |
| Integrations | Exoscale lists integrations including Kubernetes, Terraform, Packer, Vault, Pulumi, and Crossplane. | The maker lists integrations including NVIDIA Spectrum-X, SUSE, NetApp, Veeam, and Everpure. |
| Intended users | Exoscale describes Compute Instances for developers, startups, enterprises, and teams running workloads such as applications, CI/CD pipelines, analytics, and GPU workloads. | The maker describes OpenNebula as a platform for organizations building enterprise clouds and AI factories, including hybrid-cloud and edge deployments. |
| Security and compliance | The maker describes its compute instances as running in ISO-certified European data centers and says users can keep data under sovereign control with GDPR compliance. | OpenNebula Systems says its security processes align with ISO 27001:2022 and Spain’s National Security Framework requirements. |
| What it does | Compute Instances are cloud virtual machines with CPU, memory, and storage for deploying applications and workloads without managing physical servers. | OpenNebula is an end-to-end cloud and virtualization management platform that unifies KVM virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters in one environment. |
Plans
OpenNebula
- Community EditionPrice not published
- Community EditionPriced on request
- Enterprise Subscription — StandardPrice not published
- Enterprise Subscription — StandardPriced on request
- Enterprise Subscription — PremiumPriced on request
- Enterprise Subscription — PremiumPrice not published
- OpenNebula Enterprise SubscriptionPriced on request
In their own words
Exoscale Compute
Exoscale Compute has no write-up on Specifiction yet; its figures are above.
OpenNebula
OpenNebula is an open-source cloud and virtualization management platform for infrastructure across on-premises, public-cloud, and edge environments. Its control plane brings KVM virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters together, and it also supports LXC container virtualization. High-availability features include redundant control-plane components, hypervisor-node failover, and VM replication and recovery workflows across data centers. Management options include a web GUI, command-line tools, and REST, gRPC, and XML-RPC APIs. OpenNebula runs on major Linux distributions including RHEL, Ubuntu, Debian, and AlmaLinux. GPU scheduling with vGPU and MIG supports AI and HPC workloads. The maker lists integrations such as NVIDIA Spectrum-X, SUSE, NetApp, Veeam, and Everpure, as well as certified hosted-cloud providers. The Community Edition is free, while certain tested and certified enterprise releases are subscriber-only. Enterprise subscriptions include unlimited CPUs, cores, and VMs; Standard support is 9×5 and Premium support is 24×7 in CET and EST. Subscription pricing is by tailored proposal, with no price stated.