Lightning AI
vs
Scaleway
What's good about each
- Billed by the second, interruptible machines 50-80% off
- Studios move between its own cloud, AWS, GCP, Lambda and Nebius
- Owned H100, B200 and GB300 fleet in US datacenters
- Bring your own AWS or GCP account and spend cloud credits
- 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 | Lightning AI | Scaleway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $11.46 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $44.22 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $187.93 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G) | |
| Block storage | $10.00 /mo 100 GB (Drive) · First 10 GB free | $10.44 /mo 100 GB SSD (Low Latency 5K) | Within 5% |
| Object storage | -- Not listed | $19.61 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress (Standard Multi-AZ) | |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $40.14 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (DB-PLAY2-NANO) | |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $38.53 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (RED1-MICRO, 1 node) | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | $18.46 /mo LB-S (200 Mbps, 1 node) · Node only. A public IPv4 adds €3.60 / mo. | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $39.73 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | |
| Egress | Not publicly listed | 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
Lightning AI offers 8 GPU models, while Scaleway offers 5. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Lightning AI | Scaleway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
4 configs · 5 configs
|
$5.45 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.53 /GPU/hr On-demand | 35% cheaper on Scaleway |
|
L40S
3 configs · 4 configs
|
$2.97 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.64 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | 45% cheaper on Scaleway |
|
L4
4 configs · 4 configs
|
$0.79 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.88 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | 10% cheaper on Lightning AI |
|
B200
1 config
|
$9.86 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Lightning AI only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
4 configs
|
$4.63 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Lightning AI only |
|
H200
4 configs
|
$4.50 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Lightning AI only |
|
A100
8 configs
|
$1.55 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Lightning AI only |
|
T4
2 configs
|
$0.55 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Lightning AI only |
|
B300
1 config
|
-- | $8.36 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | Scaleway only |
|
P100
1 config
|
-- | $1.36 /GPU/hr On-demand | Scaleway only |
Lightning AI bills on-demand; 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 | Lightning AI | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | Type II, AWS and GCP clouds only | -- |
| ISO 27001 | -- | Yes |
| HIPAA | AWS and GCP clouds only | -- |
| 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 | Lightning AI | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2019 | 1999 |
| Headquarters | USA | France |
| Locations | -- | 10 |
| Example customers | Nvidia, Cursor, Cisco, Runway, Supercell, Stability AI, Black Forest Labs | Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai |
| Website | lightning.ai | scaleway.com |
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Our data for Lightning AI was last updated on Oct. 28, 2026, and for Scaleway on Oct. 28, 2026.