Lambda Labs vs Scaleway

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

What's good about...

Lambda Labs

Offers high-performance GPUs such as the Nvidia H100, H200, and GH200
Easy to use dashboard and competitive prices
Private cloud available (isolated, physical access)

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 Lambda Labs's prices compare against Scaleway?

Example configuration	Lambda Labs	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	$20.00 / mo 100 GB @ $0.20/GB/mo	$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 and unlimited	Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size

Lambda Labs offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
1x RTX6000	1x RTX 6000	24GB	14	46GB	$0.50	Launch
1x A10	1x A10G	24GB	30	200GB	$0.75	Launch
1x A6000	1x A6000	48GB	14	100GB	$0.80	Launch
1x A100 SXM	1x A100	40GB	30	200GB	$1.29	Launch
2x A6000	2x A6000	96GB	28	200GB	$1.60	Launch
1x H100 PCIe	1x H100	80GB	26	200GB	$2.49	Launch
2x A100	2x A100	80GB	60	400GB	$2.58	Launch
Nvidia GH200	1x GH200	96GB	64	432GB	$3.19	Source
4x A6000	4x A6000	192GB	56	400GB	$3.20	Launch
8x V100	8x V100	128GB	92	448GB	$4.40	Launch
4x A100	4x A100	160GB	120	800GB	$5.16	Launch
8x A100	8x A100	320GB	124	1800GB	$10.32	Launch
8x H100 SXM	8x H100	640GB	208	1800GB	$23.92	Launch
Nvidia H200 SXM	8x H200	1128GB	224	--	On Request	Source
B200	8x B200	1440GB	224	--	On Request	Source

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 Lambda Labs and Scaleway offer:

Service	Lambda Labs	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

	Lambda Labs	Scaleway
Website	lambdalabs.com	scaleway.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	France 🇫🇷
Founded	2012	1999
Data Center Locations	15	9
Example Customers	Microsoft, Airbus, Covariant, Comma.ai, Samsung, Pika	Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

	Lambda Labs
Website	lambdalabs.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2012
Data Center Locations	15
Example Customers	Microsoft, Airbus, Covariant, Comma.ai, Samsung, Pika