Exoscale
vs
Scaleway
Both sell VPS, managed Kubernetes, databases, object storage and B300 GPUs inside Europe. Exoscale runs zones from Swiss jurisdiction with a CDN, while Scaleway charges less for medium VMs and Postgres and adds serverless.
What's good about each
- Locations in Switzerland, Austria, Germany, Bulgaria and Croatia
- 1 TiB of monthly egress included per instance
- Managed databases from PostgreSQL to Kafka and ClickHouse
- Nvidia GPUs from RTX 3080 Ti to RTX PRO 6000
- All data centers in the EU
- Outbound traffic included on Instances
- GPUs from L4 up to B300, plus hosted AI models
- Managed Kubernetes, databases, serverless and Kafka
- Bare metal and Apple silicon servers
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Exoscale | Scaleway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $10.50 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Tiny) | $11.61 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO) | 10% cheaper on Exoscale |
| Medium VM | $67.20 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Large) | $44.81 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO) | 33% cheaper on Scaleway |
| Large VM | $168.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-optimized XL) | $190.43 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G) | 12% cheaper on Exoscale |
| Block storage | $10.08 /mo 100 GB | $10.57 /mo 100 GB SSD (Low Latency 5K) | Within 5% |
| Object storage | $25.28 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress (Standard) | $19.87 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress (Standard Multi-AZ) | 21% cheaper on Scaleway |
| PostgreSQL | $98.49 /mo 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Startup-4) | $40.67 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (DB-PLAY2-NANO) | 59% cheaper on Scaleway |
| Redis | $42.44 /mo 1 GB RAM (Hobbyist-2 / Valkey) | $39.05 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (RED1-MICRO, 1 node) | 8% cheaper on Scaleway |
| Load balancer | $25.00 /mo Network Load Balancer | $18.71 /mo LB-S (200 Mbps, 1 node) · Node only. A public IPv4 adds €3.60 / mo. | 25% cheaper on Scaleway |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $40.25 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | |
| Egress allowance | 1 TiB / mo per instance (1.42 GiB / hr) | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB | Free and unlimited Bandwidth caps based on instance size |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
Exoscale offers 7 GPU models, while Scaleway offers 5. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Exoscale | Scaleway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
B300
1 config · 1 config
|
-- On request | $8.47 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | |
|
RTX PRO 6000
4 configs
|
$2.00 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Exoscale only |
|
V100
4 configs
|
$0.83 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Exoscale only |
|
A40
4 configs
|
$1.05 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Exoscale only |
|
A5000
3 configs
|
$1.14 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Exoscale only |
|
RTX 3080 Ti
3 configs
|
$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Exoscale only |
|
H100
5 configs
|
-- | $3.58 /GPU/hr On-demand | Scaleway only |
|
L40S
4 configs
|
-- | $1.66 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | Scaleway only |
|
L4
4 configs
|
-- | $0.89 /GPU/hr On-demand | Scaleway only |
|
P100
1 config
|
-- | $1.38 /GPU/hr On-demand | Scaleway only |
Exoscale bills on-demand; Scaleway bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | Exoscale | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2011 | 1999 |
| Headquarters | Switzerland | France |
| Locations | 8 | 10 |
| Example customers | -- | Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai |
| Website | www.exoscale.com | scaleway.com |
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Our data for Exoscale was last updated on Oct. 1, 2026, and for Scaleway on Oct. 1, 2026.