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Akamai Cloud vs Scaleway

Akamai Cloud has a wider global footprint and more mature managed services, while Scaleway is a strong choice for European workloads with a growing catalog of serverless and managed offerings.

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What's good about...

Akamai Cloud logo Akamai Cloud

  • Wide range of VPS configurations including including GPU instances
  • Managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Kubernetes, and Object Storage
  • Competitive pricing with generous per-instance egress allowances
  • 30+ data center locations across North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, and South America

Scaleway logo Scaleway

  • Plenty managed services available, from queues to serverless to databases
  • Wide range of server configurations: Bare-metal, ARM, GPUs, Apple silicon
  • Uncomplicated, easy to use dashboard
  • Based in Europe, may ease compliance requirements for some

Price comparison

How do Akamai Cloud's prices compare against Scaleway?

VM Small

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$5.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared)
Scaleway Scaleway
$11.95 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)

VM Medium

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared)
Scaleway Scaleway
$46.09 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)

VM Large

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$144.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Dedicated 16GB)
Scaleway Scaleway
$195.89 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G)

Block Storage

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$10.00 / mo 100 GB
Scaleway Scaleway
$10.88 / mo 100 GB SSD · €0.00013 / GB / hour (Low Latency 5K)

Object Storage

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$20.00 / mo 1 TB
Scaleway Scaleway
$18.41 / mo 1 TB (Standard Multi-AZ)

Load Balancer

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$10.00 / mo
Scaleway Scaleway
$19.25 / mo LB-S (200 Mbps, 1 node) · Node only. A public IPv4 adds €3.60 / mo.

Managed PostgreSQL

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$63.00 / mo 2 CPU, 4 GB RAM, 58 GB storage (Shared, 1 node)
Scaleway Scaleway
$41.84 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (DB-PLAY2-NANO)

Managed Redis®*

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
--
Scaleway Scaleway
$40.17 / mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (RED1-MICRO, 1 node)

Serverless 25M Executions

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
--
Scaleway Scaleway
$33.33 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration

Free egress allowance

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
1-20 TB / mo per instance
Scaleway Scaleway
--

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
$5.00 $0.005 / GB
Scaleway Scaleway
Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
On-Demand
Scaleway Scaleway
On-Demand

Available Models

Akamai Cloud offers 3 GPU models, while Scaleway offers 5.

Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
RTX PRO 6000(4) RTX 4000 Ada(9) Quadro RTX 6000(4)
Scaleway Scaleway
H100(5) L40S(4) B300(3) L4(4) P100(1)

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Akamai Cloud and Scaleway offer:

Service Akamai Cloud Scaleway
Block Storage
Container Registry
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
NoSQL Databases
Object Storage
Serverless Functions
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
www.akamai.com
Scaleway Scaleway
scaleway.com
Headquarters
Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
United States of America US flag
Scaleway Scaleway
France FR flag
Founded
Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
2003
Scaleway Scaleway
1999
Data Center Locations
Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
31
Scaleway Scaleway
10
Example Customers
Akamai Cloud Akamai Cloud
Panasonic, Best Buy, Wayfair and Giphy
Scaleway Scaleway
Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

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Our data for Akamai Cloud was last updated on Sept. 8, 2026, and for Scaleway on Sept. 8, 2026.