What's good about...

Backblaze logo Backblaze

  • A fraction of the cost of AWS S3
  • Easy migration, S3-compatible API
  • Several data centers in North America and Europe

Backblaze 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 Backblaze's prices compare against Scaleway?

Example configuration Backblaze Scaleway
VM Small -- $10.94 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium -- $42.66 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large -- $173.91 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage -- $10.39 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $6.00 / mo 1 TB $15.86 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer -- $12.60 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL -- $35.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®* -- $38.28 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions -- $28.71 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance 3x the amount of data stored --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $10.00 $0.01 / GB Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size

Scaleway offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
L4-1-24G 1x L4 24GB 8 48GB $0.82
GPU-3070 1x RTX3070 8GB 8 16GB $1.07
Render-S 1x P100 16GB 10 42GB $1.36
L40S-1-48G 1x L40S 48GB 8 96GB $1.53
L4-2-24G 2x L4 48GB 16 96GB $1.64
H100-1-80G 1x H100 80GB 24 240GB $2.76
L40S-2-48G 2x L40S 96GB 16 192GB $3.06
L4-4-24G 4x L4 96GB 32 192GB $3.28
H100-2-80G 2x H100 160GB 48 480GB $5.51
L40S-4-48G 4x L40S 192GB 32 384GB $6.13
L4-8-24G 8x L4 192GB 64 384GB $6.56
L40S-8-48G 8x L40S 384GB 64 768GB $12.25

Note: Our pricing examples are based on several assumptions. Your actual costs may differ. Always check the cloud provider's website for the most up-to-date pricing.

Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the managed services that Backblaze and Scaleway offer:

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

Company details

Backblaze
Website www.backblaze.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2007
Data Center Locations 4
Example Customers Kanopy, Steamlabs, Canal+, Fortune
Scaleway
Website scaleway.com
Headquarters France 🇫🇷
Founded 1999
Data Center Locations 9
Example Customers Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

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Our data for Backblaze was last updated on July 24, 2024, and for Scaleway on Sept. 28, 2024.