What's good about...

Cloudways logo 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

Cloudways logo 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) $11.34 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium $88.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (DO8GB) $44.24 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large $149.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (DO16GB) $180.35 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage -- $10.78 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage -- $16.45 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer -- $13.07 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL -- $36.30 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®* Included depending on plan $39.70 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions -- $29.78 / 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 $1.11 Source
Render-S 1x P100 16GB 10 42GB $1.41 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 $2.86 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 $5.72 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
Website www.cloudways.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2012
Data Center Locations --
Example Customers Stone Digital, BlueSkyPhoenix, DigiPix, PlatoData.io, James Schramko
Scaleway
Website scaleway.com
Headquarters France 🇫🇷
Founded 1999
Data Center Locations 9
Example Customers Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

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Our data for Cloudways was last updated on May 5, 2025, and for Scaleway on Sept. 28, 2024.