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Fal.ai vs Scaleway

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What's good about...

Fal.ai logo Fal.ai

  • Optimized for fast inference, especially for generative media
  • Cost-effective, pay-as-you-go pricing model
  • Offers both serverless GPU instances

Scaleway 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 Fal.ai's prices compare against Scaleway?

VM Small

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Scaleway Scaleway
$11.92 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)

VM Medium

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Scaleway Scaleway
$45.97 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)

VM Large

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Scaleway Scaleway
$195.38 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G)

Block Storage

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Scaleway Scaleway
$10.85 /mo 100 GB SSD · €0.00013 / GB / hour (Low Latency 5K)

Object Storage

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Scaleway Scaleway
$18.36 /mo 1 TB (Standard Multi-AZ)

Load Balancer

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Scaleway Scaleway
$19.20 /mo LB-S (200 Mbps, 1 node) · Node only. A public IPv4 adds €3.60 / mo.

Managed PostgreSQL

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Scaleway Scaleway
$41.73 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (DB-PLAY2-NANO)

Managed Redis®*

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Scaleway Scaleway
$40.06 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (RED1-MICRO, 1 node)

Serverless 25M Executions

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Scaleway Scaleway
$33.25 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

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Scaleway Scaleway
Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size

Fal.ai logo Fal.ai Pricing Details

Fal.ai uses a usage-based pricing model, ensuring you only pay for the compute you consume. It offers two main structures:

  • GPU Pricing: Billed per second for deploying custom applications on their GPU fleet.
  • Output-Based Pricing: For models hosted by Fal.ai, billing is based on the output generated, such as per image, per megapixel, or per second of video.

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Fal.ai Fal.ai
Scaleway Scaleway
H100 $4.50 $3.32 B300 $8.50 $8.69

Billing Options

Fal.ai Fal.ai
On-DemandCustom
Scaleway Scaleway
On-Demand

Available Models

Fal.ai and Scaleway each offer 5 GPU models.

Fal.ai Fal.ai
H100(2) H200(2) RTX PRO 6000(2) B200(2) B300(2)
Scaleway Scaleway
H100(5) L40S(4) B300(1) L4(4) P100(1)

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Fal.ai and Scaleway offer:

Service Fal.ai Scaleway
Block Storage
Container Registry
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
NoSQL Databases
Object Storage
Serverless Functions
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Fal.ai Fal.ai
fal.ai
Scaleway Scaleway
scaleway.com
Headquarters
Fal.ai Fal.ai
United States of America US flag
Scaleway Scaleway
France FR flag
Founded
Fal.ai Fal.ai
2021
Scaleway Scaleway
1999
Data Center Locations
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Scaleway Scaleway
10
Example Customers
Fal.ai Fal.ai
PlayAI, Quora Poe, Genspark, Hedra
Scaleway Scaleway
Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

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Our data for Fal.ai was last updated on Aug. 31, 2026, and for Scaleway on Sept. 11, 2026.