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cloudscale expands its "GPU fleet"

Since spring 2025, you have been able to get virtual servers with GPU power from cloudscale. You had access to one to four dedicated L40S GPUs per virtual server to run, for example, the LLM of your choice in our Swiss cloud. In early 2026, we switched to NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q GPUs, which offer you even more performance and twice the amount of VRAM.

This offering has proven to be highly popular and has been completely booked out at both cloud locations during certain periods over the past few weeks. We are therefore in the process of procuring additional hardware so that we can once again provide you with the GPU servers you need at any time – even instantly. For you, nothing will change in terms of specs: We are still convinced of the performance of the RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q, and the feedback from our customers confirms this. We expect to have the additional hardware up and running by the end of August or early September – although, given the current procurement situation, nothing can be guaranteed.

Necessary price adjustment

Speaking of the hardware market: You may have noticed the recent price trends – within just a few months, GPU prices have doubled, SSD prices have increased fivefold, and RAM module prices have even risen tenfold or more! Since we deliberately rely on open-source software, we also avoid vendor lock-in when it comes to hardware – that is, being restricted to just a few components certified as "compatible". However, with purchase prices rising across the board, we too had to recalculate our prices when procuring the additional GPU hosts. (Let us know if you would like to learn more about the hardware at cloudscale; if there is enough interest, we will dedicate a separate post to the topic.)

Of course, we are trying to limit the price increase to the necessary minimum. Therefore, only the price of our "GPU2" flavors will change, and only for GPU servers that are newly created or scaled starting 2026-09-01. In this context, "scaling" means changing the GPU flavor; specifically:

• more or less memory than before
• more or fewer CPU cores than before
• more or fewer GPUs than before
• increasing the scratch disk size (reducing it is not possible)

Changes to other features of GPU servers do not trigger a price adjustment for the GPU server. For example:

• increasing the size of the root volume
• attaching or increasing the size of additional NVMe SSD and Bulk volumes
• adding or removing Floating IPs
• attaching or removing private networks

In these cases, you only pay for the additional space or IP address – the price of the GPU server itself remains unchanged.

You can already find the new prices on our website. However, until 2026-08-31, you will still benefit from the old price displayed in the cloud control panel.

If you already have a GPU server or – subject to availability – create one by 2026-08-31, you will continue to pay the current price for that server until further notice. All "Flex" and "Plus" flavors, as well as other features, will also remain unaffected by the price increase for the time being.

We are pleased that our GPU servers have been so well received and that we are able to respond to the growing demand with our current expansion. Despite the price increase for new GPU servers, if you already have a GPU server, you can keep it at the current price until further notice.

Laying our cards on the table.
Your cloudscale team