FluidStack vs Scaleway

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

What's good about...

FluidStack

Deploy GPU workloads without having to manage infrastructure
Affordable prices, wide range of GPU options
Clusters can be reserved to lock-in savings
24/7 support with a 15-minute response time

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 FluidStack's prices compare against Scaleway?

Example configuration	FluidStack	Scaleway
VM Small	--	$10.40 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium	--	$40.58 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large	--	$165.42 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage	--	$9.88 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	--	$15.09 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	--	$11.99 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL	--	$33.29 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	--	$36.41 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions	--	$27.31 / 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

FluidStack offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
Nvidia A4000	1x A4000	16GB	36	128GB	$0.40	Source
Nvidia A5000	1x A5000	24GB	36	128GB	$0.55	Source
Nvidia A40	1x A40	48GB	32	128GB	$0.60	Source
Nvidia A6000	1x A6000	48GB	48	128GB	$0.80	Source
Nvidia L40	1x L40S	48GB	32	48GB	$1.25	Launch
Nvidia A100 PCIe 40GB	1x A100	40GB	32	128GB	$1.65	Source
Nvidia A100 PCIe 80GB	1x A100	80GB	48	256GB	$1.80	Launch
Nvidia H100 PCIe	1x H100	80GB	48	256GB	$2.89	Launch

Scaleway offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
L4-1-24G	1x L4	24GB	8	48GB	$0.78	Launch
GPU-3070	1x RTX 3070	8GB	8	16GB	$1.02	Source
Render-S	1x P100	16GB	10	42GB	$1.29	Source
L40S-1-48G	1x L40S	48GB	8	96GB	$1.46	Launch
L4-2-24G	2x L4	48GB	16	96GB	$1.56	Source
H100-1-80G	1x H100	80GB	24	240GB	$2.62	Launch
L40S-2-48G	2x L40S	96GB	16	192GB	$2.91	Source
L4-4-24G	4x L4	96GB	32	192GB	$3.12	Source
H100-2-80G	2x H100	160GB	48	480GB	$5.24	Source
L40S-4-48G	4x L40S	192GB	32	384GB	$5.83	Source
L4-8-24G	8x L4	192GB	64	384GB	$6.24	Source
L40S-8-48G	8x L40S	384GB	64	768GB	$11.65	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 FluidStack and Scaleway offer:

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

Company details

	FluidStack	Scaleway
Website	www.fluidstack.io	scaleway.com
Headquarters	United Kingdom 🇬🇧	France 🇫🇷
Founded	2017	1999
Data Center Locations	4	9
Example Customers	Character.ai, Playground, Samsung Research, Krisp, Codeway	Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

	FluidStack
Website	www.fluidstack.io
Headquarters	United Kingdom 🇬🇧
Founded	2017
Data Center Locations	4
Example Customers	Character.ai, Playground, Samsung Research, Krisp, Codeway