Beam
vs
Scaleway
What's good about each
- Pay-per-millisecond billing, only while code is running
- Sub-second cold starts from memory snapshots
- No egress or bandwidth fees on any plan
- Runs in your own AWS, GCP or Azure account
- Recurring monthly credit on every plan
- 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
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Beam | Scaleway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $11.92 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $45.97 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $195.38 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G) | |
| Block storage | $2.10 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 1 TB included | $10.85 /mo 100 GB SSD · €0.00013 / GB / hour (Low Latency 5K) | 5.2x more expensive on Scaleway |
| Object storage | -- Not listed | $18.36 /mo 1 TB (Standard Multi-AZ) | |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $41.73 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (DB-PLAY2-NANO) | |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $40.06 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (RED1-MICRO, 1 node) | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | $19.20 /mo LB-S (200 Mbps, 1 node) · Node only. A public IPv4 adds €3.60 / mo. | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $33.25 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | |
| Egress allowance | Free and unlimited | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | -- Not listed | Free for most services 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
Beam offers 10 GPU models, while Scaleway offers 5. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Beam | Scaleway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
2 configs · 5 configs
|
$1.83 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.32 /GPU/hr On-demand | 45% cheaper on Beam |
|
B300
1 config · 1 config
|
-- On request | $8.69 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | |
|
L40S
1 config · 4 configs
|
$0.76 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.70 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | 2.2x more expensive on Scaleway |
|
B200
2 configs
|
$4.11 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Beam only |
|
H200
2 configs
|
$2.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Beam only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
1 config
|
$1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Beam only |
|
RTX 5090
1 config
|
$0.72 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Beam only |
|
A100
1 config
|
$1.36 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Beam only |
|
L4
4 configs
|
-- | $0.91 /GPU/hr On-demand | Scaleway only |
|
P100
1 config
|
-- | $1.42 /GPU/hr On-demand | Scaleway only |
Beam bills on-demand; Scaleway bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Company details
| Fact | Beam | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2021 | 1999 |
| Headquarters | USA | France |
| Locations | -- | 10 |
| Example customers | Coke, Ogilvy, EdgeImpulse, Magellan AI, Geospy, Frase | Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai |
| Website | www.beam.cloud | scaleway.com |
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Our data for Beam was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Scaleway on Sept. 12, 2026.