Network Load Balancer now supports IPv6

Thu, 24 Sep 2026 12:00:00 +0000

Network Load Balancers now support IPv6. You can create an IPv6 Network Load Balancer in the Exoscale Portal or with the Exoscale CLI.

An IPv6 Network Load Balancer gets a public IPv6 address and distributes TCP and UDP traffic across the instances in your Instance Pools, just like an IPv4 Network Load Balancer.

Why use it

Lower cost: Elastic IPv6 addresses are free, so you only pay the load balancer fee. An IPv6 Network Load Balancer costs EUR/CHF/USD 0.02083 per hour, about 40% less than the IPv4 version. Check the pricing page for details.
Reach IPv6 users directly: Serve users on IPv6-only and IPv6-first networks, natively and without translation layers.
Go fully IPv6: Your instances already get a free public IPv6 address. Now the load balancer in front of them can be IPv6 too.
Nothing to give up: Same health checks, load balancing strategies and 200 service limit as an IPv4 Network Load Balancer.

Before you start

The target Instance Pool must have IPv6 enabled (dual-stack). Instance Pools are IPv4 only by default, so set public IP assignment to dual-stack. Instances without an IPv6 address won’t receive traffic.

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Network Load Balancer now supports IPv6

Why use it

Before you start