# Exoscale review (2026): is it worth paying for? > European cloud provider with S3-compatible object storage Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Exoscale is a European cloud platform for compute, databases, networking and storage. For file storage it sells Simple Object Storage, an S3-compatible service reachable by API, web interface or existing S3 tools, and billed by usage. Data stays in its European zones. - **Category:** File Storage & Sync - **Made by:** Exoscale - **Website:** https://www.exoscale.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a file-sharing app, as there are no desktop sync clients or folder sharing. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Exoscale is a paid product, starting at $0.0000275 per GiB / hour of standard object storage. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Simple Object Storage | $0 | Pay as you go, no up-front cost. Storage $0.0000275 per GiB-hour up to 512 TiB; outbound traffic $0.02 per GiB. | Read from https://www.exoscale.com/pricing/ on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Exoscale before buying. ## Key features - **S3-compatible API:** Existing S3 clients and libraries work with the service, and it can also be used through a web interface or scripts. - **European zones:** Data is held in zones across Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Bulgaria and Croatia, in data centers the vendor says are ISO 27001 certified. - **Versioning and object lock:** Versioning, object lock and bucket replication are offered for backups and long-term archives. - **Volume tiers:** The per-GiB rate falls beyond 512 TiB and again beyond 1 PiB; the pricing page lists three storage tiers. - **Usage-based billing:** Resources are billed by the second with no long-term commitment, and the same rates apply across zones. ## Good for - Developers who need S3-compatible storage inside the EU - Backup and archive jobs that already write to an S3 endpoint - Teams that must show data stays in European data centers ## Worth knowing - This is infrastructure, not a file-sharing app: there are no desktop sync clients or folder sharing for end users. - Prices are listed per GiB-hour; at 720 hours that is about $0.0198 per GiB-month, plus $0.02 per GiB of outbound traffic. - Prices exclude any applicable tax and can be shown in EUR, CHF or USD. - Archival Storage is listed as available on request, with no published rate. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.6 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Exoscale sells S3-compatible object storage from European zones, billed by the GiB-hour. There is nothing free to try, it has no sync or sharing app, and you need to be handy with APIs and infrastructure tools. - **Value for money: C.** About $0.0198 per GiB-month at 720 hours, plus $0.02 per GiB of outbound traffic. Metered, so it does not line up with the category's $7 subscription middle. - **Free plan and trial: F.** No free plan and no trial is listed. You pay from the first byte. - **Features: C.** S3 API, versioning, object lock and volume tiers across European zones. Archival Storage is listed as available on request, with no published rate. - **Ease of use: D.** Set up through an S3 endpoint, keys and tools such as Terraform. There is no end-user app and no store rating on record. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web and API only, no desktop or phone app, though it works with Terraform, Kubernetes, Packer and Pulumi. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Exoscale's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among file storage and sync services - Exoscale's GPA of 1.6 is higher than 1 of the 91 other file storage and sync services we grade, and level with 4. - It stands best on platforms and integrations (B, above 31 of 91) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/file-storage ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** Nothing Exoscale does is plain enough to make in a weekend. The 2 things listed below take a company. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 86 of the 91 other file storage and sync services grade higher. - You could not: A file manager working directly on your disk. - You could not: It plugs into other products, Terraform, Kubernetes and Packer among them, and has an API. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. ## Works with Terraform, Kubernetes, Packer, Pulumi **Tags:** Public API, File management ## Alternatives - [Wasabi](https://toolgpa.com/tools/wasabi): S3-compatible cloud object storage at a flat per-TB rate. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/exoscale-vs-wasabi) - [Backblaze B2](https://toolgpa.com/tools/backblaze-b2): S3-compatible object storage billed per terabyte. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/backblaze-b2-vs-exoscale) - [Storj](https://toolgpa.com/tools/storj): Distributed S3-compatible object storage priced per terabyte. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/exoscale-vs-storj) - [Filebase](https://toolgpa.com/tools/filebase): S3-compatible object storage with IPFS pinning and free egress. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/exoscale-vs-filebase) - [MinIO](https://toolgpa.com/tools/minio): S3-compatible object storage software you run yourself. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/exoscale-vs-minio) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.exoscale.com/object-storage/ - https://www.exoscale.com/pricing/ - https://portal.exoscale.com/api/pricing/sos Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/exoscale Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).