The Basics

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

Cost Comparison

How do DigitalOcean's prices compare against Scaleway?

Example configuration DigitalOcean Scaleway
VM Small $6.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GiB RAM (Basic) $10.87 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium $48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic) $42.38 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large $168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized) $172.77 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage $10.00 / mo 100 GB $10.32 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage $20.00 / mo 1 TiB $15.76 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer $12.00 / mo $12.52 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL $60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage $34.77 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM $38.03 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions $34.69 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration $28.52 / 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 Free for most services

Note: These 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 of the 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)

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Our data for DigitalOcean was last updated on Feb. 21, 2024, and for Scaleway on Feb. 10, 2024.