Hetzner vs Scaleway

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

What's good about...

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

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	$4.91 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (CX22)	$10.89 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium	$8.81 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (CX32)	$42.47 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large	$21.26 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CX42)	$173.14 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage	$5.65 / mo 100 GB	$10.34 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$5.44 / mo 1 TB	$15.79 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$6.93 / mo LB11	$12.54 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL	--	$34.84 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	--	$38.11 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions	--	$28.58 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance	1-60 TB / mo per instance	--
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	$1.09 €1 / TB	Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size

Hetzner offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
GEX44	1x RTX 4000	20GB	14	64GB	$0.32	Source
GEX130	1x RTX 6000	48GB	24	128GB	$1.46	Source

Scaleway offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
L4-1-24G	1x L4	24GB	8	48GB	$0.82	Launch
GPU-3070	1x RTX 3070	8GB	8	16GB	$1.07	Source
Render-S	1x P100	16GB	10	42GB	$1.35	Source
L40S-1-48G	1x L40S	48GB	8	96GB	$1.52	Launch
L4-2-24G	2x L4	48GB	16	96GB	$1.63	Source
H100-1-80G	1x H100	80GB	24	240GB	$2.74	Launch
L40S-2-48G	2x L40S	96GB	16	192GB	$3.05	Source
L4-4-24G	4x L4	96GB	32	192GB	$3.27	Source
H100-2-80G	2x H100	160GB	48	480GB	$5.49	Source
L40S-4-48G	4x L40S	192GB	32	384GB	$6.10	Source
L4-8-24G	8x L4	192GB	64	384GB	$6.53	Source
L40S-8-48G	8x L40S	384GB	64	768GB	$12.20	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 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	Scaleway
Website	hetzner.com	scaleway.com
Headquarters	Germany 🇩🇪	France 🇫🇷
Founded	1997	1999
Data Center Locations	6	9
Example Customers	Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc	Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

	Hetzner
Website	hetzner.com
Headquarters	Germany 🇩🇪
Founded	1997
Data Center Locations	6
Example Customers	Outdooractive, Bitdefender, Userlike, Whereby, Autodoc