Cloudways vs Scaleway

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

What's good about...

Cloudways

Deploy to 65+ datacenter regions across multiple cloud providers
Built-in cache, database, and CDN integration
Offers free SSL, staging environments, and automated backups

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 Cloudways's prices compare against Scaleway?

Example configuration	Cloudways	Scaleway
VM Small	$11.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (DO1GB)	$11.21 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium	$88.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (DO8GB)	$43.73 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large	$149.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (DO16GB)	$178.30 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage	--	$10.65 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	--	$16.26 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	--	$12.92 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL	--	$35.88 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	Included depending on plan	$39.25 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions	--	$29.44 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	1 TB - 12 TB / mo included depending on plan	--
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$20.00 $0.02 / GB (DO provider)	Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size

Scaleway GPUs

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
L4-1-24G	1x L4	24GB	8	48GB	$0.90	Launch
GPU-3070	1x RTX 3070	8GB	8	16GB	$1.10	Source
Render-S	1x P100	16GB	10	42GB	$1.39	Source
L40S-1-48G	1x L40S	48GB	8	48GB	$1.61	Launch
L4-2-24G	2x L4	48GB	16	96GB	$1.72	Launch
H100-1-80G	1x H100	80GB	24	240GB	$2.83	Launch
L40S-2-48G	2x L40S	96GB	16	192GB	$3.15	Launch
L4-4-24G	4x L4	96GB	32	192GB	$3.37	Source
H100-2-80G	2x H100	160GB	48	480GB	$5.65	Launch
L40S-4-48G	4x L40S	192GB	32	384GB	$6.23	Source
L4-8-24G	8x L4	192GB	64	384GB	$6.67	Launch
L40S-8-48G	8x L40S	384GB	64	768GB	$12.39	Launch

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 Cloudways and Scaleway offer:

Service	Cloudways	Scaleway
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)		--
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

	Cloudways	Scaleway
Website	www.cloudways.com	scaleway.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	France 🇫🇷
Founded	2012	1999
Data Center Locations	--	9
Example Customers	Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko	Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

	Cloudways
Website	www.cloudways.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2012
Data Center Locations	--
Example Customers	Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko