Flightcontrol vs Scaleway

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What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Flightcontrol

Your AWS infrastructure is managed by a seasoned devops team at a fraction of the cost
Excellent documentation and easy-to-use dashboard
Great developer experience: preview environments, rollbacks, notifications, monitoring
Deploy close to your users, supports 28 AWS regions

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 Flightcontrol's prices compare against Scaleway?

Example configuration	Flightcontrol	Scaleway
VM Small	--	$10.58 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium	--	$41.27 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large	--	$168.24 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage	--	$10.05 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	--	$15.34 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	--	$12.19 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL	--	$33.86 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	--	$37.03 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions	--	$27.78 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	--	Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size

Flightcontrol charges a fixed monthly fee to use their service in addition to the standard AWS usage costs. They claim this model gives you up to 75% lower costs at scale when compared to traditional PaaS offerings.

There are currently 4 plans available:

Free: limited to 1 user, but commercial use is allowed.
Starter $49/mo: includes 5 services and multiple users.
Business $249/mo: includes 10 services, preview environments, RBAC and multi-region.
Enterprise: custom pricing, SLAs, premium support.

Additional services cost $15-30/mo, depending on the plan.

Scaleway offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
L4-1-24G	1x L4	24GB	8	48GB	$0.79	Source
GPU-3070	1x RTX3070	8GB	8	16GB	$1.04	Source
Render-S	1x P100	16GB	10	42GB	$1.31	Source
L40S-1-48G	1x L40S	48GB	8	96GB	$1.48	Source
L4-2-24G	2x L4	48GB	16	96GB	$1.59	Source
H100-1-80G	1x H100	80GB	24	240GB	$2.67	Source
L40S-2-48G	2x L40S	96GB	16	192GB	$2.96	Source
L4-4-24G	4x L4	96GB	32	192GB	$3.17	Source
H100-2-80G	2x H100	160GB	48	480GB	$5.33	Source
L40S-4-48G	4x L40S	192GB	32	384GB	$5.93	Source
L4-8-24G	8x L4	192GB	64	384GB	$6.35	Source
L40S-8-48G	8x L40S	384GB	64	768GB	$11.85	Source

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 Flightcontrol and Scaleway offer:

Service	Flightcontrol	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

	Flightcontrol	Scaleway
Website	flightcontrol.dev	scaleway.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	France 🇫🇷
Founded	2021	1999
Data Center Locations	--	9
Example Customers	Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane	Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

	Flightcontrol
Website	flightcontrol.dev
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2021
Data Center Locations	--
Example Customers	Cal.com, Remi, Cascade PBS, Drive, Productlane