What's good about...

DigitalOcean logo DigitalOcean

  • Wide range of managed services: from databases to serverless to Kubernetes
  • Many VPS configurations available (GPUs, high memory, dedicated CPU)
  • Plenty of datacenter locations around the world
  • There's lots of guides, docs and community tutorials online

DigitalOcean 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 DigitalOcean's prices compare against Scaleway?

Example configuration DigitalOcean Scaleway
VM Small $6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic) $11.37 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium $48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic) $44.35 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large $168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized) $180.83 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage $10.00 / mo 100 GB $10.80 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $20.00 / mo 1 TiB $16.49 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer $12.00 / mo $13.10 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL $60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage $36.39 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM $39.81 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions $34.69 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration $29.85 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance 100 GB - 10 TB / mo per instance --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $10.00 $0.01 / GB Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size

DigitalOcean GPUs

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
Nvidia H100 SXM 1x H100 80GB 20 240GB $3.39 Launch
Nvidia H100 SXM 8x H100 640GB 160 1920GB $23.92 Launch

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 $2.87 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 $5.73 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 DigitalOcean and Scaleway offer:

Service DigitalOcean 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 Cron Jobs --
Serverless Functions
Static Sites --
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

DigitalOcean
Website digitalocean.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2011
Data Center Locations 14
Example Customers Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai
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 DigitalOcean was last updated on March 21, 2025, and for Scaleway on Sept. 28, 2024.