Fly.io
vs
Scaleway
Both run containers, managed Kubernetes, object storage and VPS. Fly.io charges less for small VMs and places apps near users on six continents, while Scaleway adds serverless, MySQL and GPUs inside the EU.
What's good about each
- Excellent tooling and developer experience
- Fast deployments, scale to zero, little config needed
- Per-second billing, with a 40% discount for reserved compute blocks
- Anycast networking and global load balancing included at no extra cost
- 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 | Fly.io | Scaleway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $5.70 /mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (shared-cpu-1x) | $11.61 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO) | 51% cheaper on Fly.io |
| Medium VM | $42.79 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (shared-cpu-4x) | $44.81 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO) | Within 5% |
| Large VM | $248.00 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (performance-8x) | $190.43 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G) | 23% cheaper on Scaleway |
| Block storage | $15.00 /mo 100 GB | $10.57 /mo 100 GB SSD (Low Latency 5K) | 30% cheaper on Scaleway |
| Object storage | $20.50 /mo 1 TB (Tigris) | $19.87 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress (Standard Multi-AZ) | Within 5% |
| PostgreSQL | $86.00 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (Starter) | $40.67 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (DB-PLAY2-NANO) | 53% cheaper on Scaleway |
| Redis | $20.00 /mo 1 GB data (Upstash Fixed 1GB) | $39.05 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (RED1-MICRO, 1 node) | 49% cheaper on Fly.io |
| Load balancer | Included with apps | $18.71 /mo LB-S (200 Mbps, 1 node) · Node only. A public IPv4 adds €3.60 / mo. | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $40.25 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | |
| Egress | $20.00 /TB $0.02 / GB (North America and Europe) | 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
Scaleway offers 5 GPU models. We track no GPU listings from Fly.io. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Fly.io | Scaleway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
5 configs
|
-- | $3.58 /GPU/hr On-demand | Scaleway only |
|
B300
1 config
|
-- | $8.47 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | 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 |
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.
| Framework | Fly.io | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II | -- |
| ISO 27001 | Data centers only | Yes |
| HIPAA | Yes | -- |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
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 | Fly.io | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2017 | 1999 |
| Headquarters | USA | France |
| Locations | 18 | 10 |
| Example customers | Cars.com, Fanatics, Tailscale, Supabase | Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai |
| Website | fly.io | scaleway.com |
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Our data for Fly.io was last updated on Sept. 18, 2026, and for Scaleway on Oct. 1, 2026.