Civo
vs
Scaleway
Both sell VPS and B300 GPUs. Civo charges less for small VMs and object storage, while Scaleway runs Redis and serverless in the EU.
What's good about each
- Free egress and ingress
- Kubernetes control plane at no cost
- Deploy to locations in Europe and Asia
- GPUs from L40S to B300, reservable for up to 36 months
- API serving open models from the UK
- 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 | Civo | Scaleway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $5.43 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (xSmall) | $11.67 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO) | 53% cheaper on Civo |
| Medium VM | $43.45 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large) | $45.03 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO) | Within 5% |
| Large VM | $139.05 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU Optimized Small) | $191.39 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G) | 27% cheaper on Civo |
| Block storage | $10.88 /mo 100 GB | $10.63 /mo 100 GB SSD (Low Latency 5K) | Within 5% |
| Object storage | $10.86 /mo 1 TB | $19.97 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress (Standard Multi-AZ) | 46% cheaper on Civo |
| PostgreSQL | $43.45 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe (Small) | $40.88 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (DB-PLAY2-NANO) | 6% cheaper on Scaleway |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $39.24 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (RED1-MICRO, 1 node) | |
| Load balancer | $10.86 /mo 10,000 concurrent requests | $18.80 /mo LB-S (200 Mbps, 1 node) · Node only. A public IPv4 adds €3.60 / mo. | 42% cheaper on Civo |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $40.46 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | |
| Egress | Free and unlimited | 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
Civo offers 6 GPU models, while Scaleway offers 5. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Civo | Scaleway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
10 configs · 5 configs
|
$2.99 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.60 /GPU/hr On-demand | 17% cheaper on Civo |
|
B300
4 configs · 1 config
|
$7.49 /GPU/hr On-demand | $8.52 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | 12% cheaper on Civo |
|
L40S
20 configs · 4 configs
|
$1.29 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.67 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | 23% cheaper on Civo |
|
B200
3 configs
|
$3.79 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Civo only |
|
H200
10 configs
|
$2.99 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Civo only |
|
A100
40 configs
|
$0.69 /GPU/hr Reserved (36 mo) | -- | Civo only |
|
L4
4 configs
|
-- | $0.89 /GPU/hr On-demand | Scaleway only |
|
P100
1 config
|
-- | $1.39 /GPU/hr On-demand | Scaleway only |
Civo bills on-demand and reserved (6, 12, 24 or 36 months); 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 | Civo | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2015 | 1999 |
| Headquarters | UK | France |
| Locations | 6 | 10 |
| Example customers | Defense.com, TensorGo, Limitless Technologies, Techdome, KubeNine | Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai |
| Website | civo.com | scaleway.com |
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Our data for Civo was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Scaleway on Oct. 1, 2026.