Canopy Wave
vs
Scaleway
What's good about each
- Iceland data centers running on hydro and geothermal power
- 2-8 TB of local NVMe included per node
- GPU rental and open-model inference on one account
- 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 | Canopy Wave | Scaleway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $11.73 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $45.26 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $192.33 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G) | |
| Block storage | $7.00 /mo 100 GB (Shared Storage) | $10.68 /mo 100 GB SSD (Low Latency 5K) | 34% cheaper on Canopy Wave |
| Object storage | $40.00 /mo 1 TB | $20.07 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress (Standard Multi-AZ) | 50% cheaper on Scaleway |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $41.08 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (DB-PLAY2-NANO) | |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $39.44 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (RED1-MICRO, 1 node) | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | $18.90 /mo LB-S (200 Mbps, 1 node) · Node only. A public IPv4 adds €3.60 / mo. | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $40.66 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | |
| Egress | -- Not listed | 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
Canopy Wave and Scaleway each offer 5 GPU models. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Canopy Wave | Scaleway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
3 configs · 5 configs
|
$3.25 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.27 /GPU/hr On-demand | Within 5% |
|
B300
1 config · 1 config
|
-- On request | $8.56 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | |
|
B200
3 configs
|
-- On request | -- | Canopy Wave only |
|
H200
3 configs
|
$4.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Canopy Wave only |
|
GB200
1 config
|
-- On request | -- | Canopy Wave 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 |
Canopy Wave bills on-demand; 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 | Canopy Wave | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2024 | 1999 |
| Headquarters | USA | France |
| Locations | 2 | 10 |
| Example customers | UC San Diego, Pax Historia, Foundry BioSciences | Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai |
| Website | canopywave.com | scaleway.com |
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Our data for Canopy Wave was last updated on Sept. 23, 2026, and for Scaleway on Sept. 23, 2026.