Contabo vs Scaleway

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

What's good about...

Contabo

Low-cost VPS and dedicated servers
Offers GPUs and object storage too
Available in 9 regions around the world

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 Contabo's prices compare against Scaleway?

Example configuration	Contabo	Scaleway
VM Small	$4.64 / mo 4 vCPUs, 6 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 1)	$10.30 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium	$9.79 / mo 6 vCPUs, 16 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 2)	$40.19 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large	$14.43 / mo 8 vCPUs, 24 GB RAM (Cloud VPS 3)	$163.83 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage	--	$9.79 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$10.26 / mo 1 TB	$14.94 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	--	$11.87 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL	--	$32.97 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	--	$36.06 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions	--	$27.05 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	10-324 TB per instance	--
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	Free and unlimited 10-324 TB per instance, then lower bandwidth	Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size

Contabo offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
L40S	4x L40S	192GB	64	512GB	$4.09	Source
H100	4x H100	320GB	64	512GB	$10.02	Source

Scaleway offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
L4-1-24G	1x L4	24GB	8	48GB	$0.77	Source
GPU-3070	1x RTX 3070	8GB	8	16GB	$1.01	Source
Render-S	1x P100	16GB	10	42GB	$1.28	Source
L40S-1-48G	1x L40S	48GB	8	96GB	$1.44	Source
L4-2-24G	2x L4	48GB	16	96GB	$1.55	Source
H100-1-80G	1x H100	80GB	24	240GB	$2.60	Source
L40S-2-48G	2x L40S	96GB	16	192GB	$2.89	Source
L4-4-24G	4x L4	96GB	32	192GB	$3.09	Source
H100-2-80G	2x H100	160GB	48	480GB	$5.19	Source
L40S-4-48G	4x L40S	192GB	32	384GB	$5.77	Source
L4-8-24G	8x L4	192GB	64	384GB	$6.18	Source
L40S-8-48G	8x L40S	384GB	64	768GB	$11.54	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 Contabo and Scaleway offer:

Service	Contabo	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

	Contabo	Scaleway
Website	contabo.com	scaleway.com
Headquarters	Germany 🇩🇪	France 🇫🇷
Founded	2003	1999
Data Center Locations	9	9
Example Customers	--	Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai