DigitalOcean vs Scaleway

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

What's good about...

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

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)	$11.36 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium	$48.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GiB RAM (Basic)	$44.29 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large	$168.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GiB RAM (CPU-Optimized)	$180.58 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage	$10.00 / mo 100 GB	$10.79 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$20.00 / mo 1 TiB	$16.47 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$12.00 / mo	$13.08 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL	$60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 60 GB storage	$36.34 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	$15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM	$39.75 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions	$34.69 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration	$29.81 / 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	$2.86	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 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	Scaleway
Website	digitalocean.com	scaleway.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	France 🇫🇷
Founded	2011	1999
Data Center Locations	14	9
Example Customers	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai	Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

	DigitalOcean
Website	digitalocean.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2011
Data Center Locations	14
Example Customers	Crisp, ScraperAPI, GHost, and CTO.ai