Build AI vs Scaleway

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Build AI

Cost efficient, claims to save up to 50% on GPU costs
Predictable interruptions during peak energy hours
Offers Nvidia A100 and H100 GPUs

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 Build AI's prices compare against Scaleway?

Example configuration	Build AI	Scaleway
VM Small	--	$10.20 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium	--	$39.77 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large	--	$162.15 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage	--	$9.69 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	--	$14.79 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	--	$11.75 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL	--	$32.63 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	--	$35.69 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions	--	$26.77 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	--	Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size

What makes Build AI's pricing stand out is that you can run your workload on interruptible GPUs (spot) and save up to 50% of the cost. They claim interruptions last about 2 hours per day, which makes them particularly suited for training workloads.

If you require guaranteed uptime, non-interruptible GPUs can be reserved on their platform too.

Build AI offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
A100 (spot)	1x A100	40GB	15	200GB	$1.05	Source
A100	1x A100	40GB	15	200GB	$1.42	Source
A100 (spot)	1x A100	80GB	30	225GB	$1.45	Source
A100	1x A100	80GB	30	225GB	$1.97	Source
H100 (spot)	1x H100	80GB	26	225GB	$2.79	Source
H100	1x H100	80GB	26	225GB	$3.85	Source

Scaleway offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
L4-1-24G	1x L4	24GB	8	48GB	$0.76	Source
GPU-3070	1x RTX 3070	8GB	8	16GB	$1.00	Source
Render-S	1x P100	16GB	10	42GB	$1.26	Source
L40S-1-48G	1x L40S	48GB	8	96GB	$1.43	Source
L4-2-24G	2x L4	48GB	16	96GB	$1.53	Source
H100-1-80G	1x H100	80GB	24	240GB	$2.57	Source
L40S-2-48G	2x L40S	96GB	16	192GB	$2.86	Source
L4-4-24G	4x L4	96GB	32	192GB	$3.06	Source
H100-2-80G	2x H100	160GB	48	480GB	$5.14	Source
L40S-4-48G	4x L40S	192GB	32	384GB	$5.71	Source
L4-8-24G	8x L4	192GB	64	384GB	$6.12	Source
L40S-8-48G	8x L40S	384GB	64	768GB	$11.42	Source

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 managed services that Build AI and Scaleway offer:

Service	Build AI	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

	Build AI	Scaleway
Website	trybuild.ai	scaleway.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	France 🇫🇷
Founded	2024	1999
Data Center Locations	1	9
Example Customers	--	Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai