Atlas Cloud
vs
Scaleway
Both sell VMs and object storage inside Europe. Atlas Cloud hosts everything in Iceland with free egress, while Scaleway charges less and adds managed services, serverless and GPUs.
What's good about each
- Fully sovereign infrastructure hosted in Iceland
- Free ingress and egress traffic
- Tier 3 data center, ISO 27001 certified
- Self-service provisioning via UI, CLI, API, Terraform, and Ansible
- All data centers in the EU
- Outbound traffic included on Instances
- GPUs from L4 up to B300, plus hosted AI models
- Managed Kubernetes, databases, serverless and Kafka
- Bare metal and Apple silicon servers
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Atlas Cloud | Scaleway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $78.13 /mo 1 vCPU, 4 GiB RAM, 20 GiB storage (a4) | $11.72 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO) | 85% cheaper on Scaleway |
| Medium VM | $150.26 /mo 2 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM, 40 GiB storage (a5) | $45.22 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO) | 70% cheaper on Scaleway |
| Large VM | $300.52 /mo 8 vCPU, 32 GiB RAM, 160 GiB storage (a7) | $192.20 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G) | 36% cheaper on Scaleway |
| Block storage | $11.69 /mo 100 GiB Block Storage | $10.67 /mo 100 GB SSD (Low Latency 5K) | 9% cheaper on Scaleway |
| Object storage | $102.58 /mo 1 TiB stored, S3-compatible | $20.06 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress (Standard Multi-AZ) | 80% cheaper on Scaleway |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $41.05 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (DB-PLAY2-NANO) | |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $39.41 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (RED1-MICRO, 1 node) | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | $18.88 /mo LB-S (200 Mbps, 1 node) · Node only. A public IPv4 adds €3.60 / mo. | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $40.63 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | |
| Egress allowance | Both ingress and egress are free. Unlimited free egress | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | Free Egress is always free | Free and unlimited Bandwidth caps based on instance size |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
Scaleway offers 5 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Atlas Cloud. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Atlas Cloud | Scaleway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
5 configs
|
-- | $3.27 /GPU/hr On-demand | Scaleway only |
|
B300
1 config
|
-- | $8.55 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | Scaleway only |
|
L40S
4 configs
|
-- | $1.68 /GPU/hr On-demand | Scaleway only |
|
L4
4 configs
|
-- | $0.90 /GPU/hr On-demand | Scaleway only |
|
P100
1 config
|
-- | $1.39 /GPU/hr On-demand | Scaleway only |
Scaleway bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | Atlas Cloud | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2025 | 1999 |
| Headquarters | Iceland | France |
| Locations | 1 | 10 |
| Example customers | -- | Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai |
| Website | www.atlascloud.is | scaleway.com |
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Our data for Atlas Cloud was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Scaleway on Sept. 27, 2026.