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Hugging Face vs Scaleway

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What's good about...

Hugging Face logo Hugging Face

  • Hub hosts 3M+ public models and 500k+ datasets
  • Free hosting for public models, datasets and demos
  • AI models and datasets can be mounted directly into a job
  • Single GPUs up to 8x H200 or RTX PRO 6000

Scaleway 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 Hugging Face's prices compare against Scaleway?

VM Small

Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Scaleway Scaleway
$11.95 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)

VM Medium

Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Scaleway Scaleway
$46.09 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)

VM Large

Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Scaleway Scaleway
$195.89 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G)

Block Storage

Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Scaleway Scaleway
$10.88 / mo 100 GB SSD · €0.00013 / GB / hour (Low Latency 5K)

Object Storage

Hugging Face Hugging Face
$18.00 / mo 1 TB (private)
Scaleway Scaleway
$18.41 / mo 1 TB (Standard Multi-AZ)

Load Balancer

Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Scaleway Scaleway
$19.25 / mo LB-S (200 Mbps, 1 node) · Node only. A public IPv4 adds €3.60 / mo.

Managed PostgreSQL

Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Scaleway Scaleway
$41.84 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (DB-PLAY2-NANO)

Managed Redis®*

Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Scaleway Scaleway
$40.17 / mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (RED1-MICRO, 1 node)

Serverless 25M Executions

Hugging Face Hugging Face
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Scaleway Scaleway
$33.33 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration

Free egress allowance

Hugging Face Hugging Face
8x the amount of data stored
Scaleway Scaleway
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Hugging Face Hugging Face
Included within the allowance
Scaleway Scaleway
Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Hugging Face Hugging Face
Scaleway Scaleway
L40S $1.80 $1.71 L4 $0.80 $0.92

Billing Options

Hugging Face Hugging Face
On-Demand
Scaleway Scaleway
On-Demand

Available Models

Hugging Face offers 7 GPU models, while Scaleway offers 5.

Hugging Face Hugging Face
A100(3) RTX PRO 6000(4) H200(4) L40S(3) L4(2) T4(2) A10G(4)
Scaleway Scaleway
H100(5) L40S(4) B300(3) L4(4) P100(1)

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Hugging Face and Scaleway offer:

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

Company details

Website
Hugging Face Hugging Face
huggingface.co
Scaleway Scaleway
scaleway.com
Headquarters
Hugging Face Hugging Face
United States of America US flag
Scaleway Scaleway
France FR flag
Founded
Hugging Face Hugging Face
2016
Scaleway Scaleway
1999
Data Center Locations
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Scaleway Scaleway
10
Example Customers
Hugging Face Hugging Face
Meta, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Intel, Grammarly, Ai2
Scaleway Scaleway
Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

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Our data for Hugging Face was last updated on Sept. 4, 2026, and for Scaleway on Sept. 4, 2026.