What's good about...

Hetzner logo Hetzner

  • High performance VPS configurations at affordable prices (shared, high memory, dedicated CPU)
  • Easy to use web console & developer tooling (Terraform SDKs, official CLI)
  • EU-based company, may simplify GDPR compliance for some

Hetzner 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 Hetzner's prices compare against Scaleway?

Example configuration Hetzner Scaleway
VM Small $4.89 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (CX22) $10.85 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium $8.78 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CX32) $42.32 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large $21.18 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CX42) $172.53 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage $5.63 / mo 100 GB $10.31 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage -- $15.73 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer $6.90 / mo LB11 $12.50 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL -- $34.72 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®* -- $37.98 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions -- $28.48 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance 20-60 TB / mo per instance --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $1.09 Free for most services

Hetzner offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs Total GPU Memory vCPUs RAM Price per hour
GEX44 1x RTX4000 20GB 14 64GB $0.38

Scaleway offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs Total GPU Memory vCPUs RAM Price per hour
L4-1-24G 1x L4 24GB 8 48GB $0.81
GPU-3070 1x RTX3070 8GB 8 16GB $1.06
Render-S 1x P100 16GB 10 42GB $1.35
L40S-1-48G 1x L40S 48GB 8 96GB $1.52
L4-2-24G 2x L4 48GB 16 96GB $1.63
H100-1-80G 1x H100 80GB 24 240GB $2.73
L40S-2-48G 2x L40S 96GB 16 192GB $3.04
L4-4-24G 4x L4 96GB 32 192GB $3.26
H100-2-80G 2x H100 160GB 48 480GB $5.47
L40S-4-48G 4x L40S 192GB 32 384GB $6.08
L4-8-24G 8x L4 192GB 64 384GB $6.51
L40S-8-48G 8x L40S 384GB 64 768GB $12.15

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 of the managed services that Hetzner and Scaleway offer:

Service Hetzner 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

Hetzner
Website hetzner.com
Headquarters Germany 🇩🇪
Founded 1997
Data Center Locations 5
Example Customers Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc
Scaleway
Website scaleway.com
Headquarters France 🇫🇷
Founded 1999
Data Center Locations 9
Example Customers Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

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Our data for Hetzner was last updated on July 24, 2024, and for Scaleway on July 24, 2024.