Lyceum
vs
Scaleway
Both rent H100, B300 and L40S GPUs with managed containers inside the EU. Lyceum bills per second with spot pricing and notebooks, while Scaleway adds VPS, managed databases, Kubernetes, object storage and serverless.
What's good about each
- Data center cards from L40S to Blackwell B300, 1 to 8 per VM
- EU datacenters in Germany, Finland and the Netherlands
- Per-second billing on compute, per-token on inference
- OpenAI-compatible API that plugs into coding agents
- 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 | Lyceum | Scaleway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | -- Not listed | $11.70 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO) | |
| Medium VM | -- Not listed | $45.13 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO) | |
| Large VM | -- Not listed | $191.78 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G) | |
| Block storage | $10.00 /mo 100 GB | $10.65 /mo 100 GB SSD (Low Latency 5K) | 6% cheaper on Lyceum |
| Object storage | -- Not listed | $20.01 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress (Standard Multi-AZ) | |
| PostgreSQL | -- Not listed | $40.96 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (DB-PLAY2-NANO) | |
| Redis | -- Not listed | $39.32 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (RED1-MICRO, 1 node) | |
| Load balancer | -- Not listed | $18.84 /mo LB-S (200 Mbps, 1 node) · Node only. A public IPv4 adds €3.60 / mo. | |
| Serverless | -- Not listed | $40.54 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | |
| Egress | Free and unlimited | 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
Lyceum offers 7 GPU models, while Scaleway offers 5. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Lyceum | Scaleway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
9 configs · 5 configs
|
$2.79 /GPU/hr On-demand | $3.26 /GPU/hr On-demand | 14% cheaper on Lyceum |
|
B300
9 configs · 1 config
|
$7.99 /GPU/hr On-demand | $8.53 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | 6% cheaper on Lyceum |
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L40S
5 configs · 4 configs
|
$1.19 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.67 /GPU/hr On-demand | 29% cheaper on Lyceum |
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B200
9 configs
|
$6.49 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Lyceum only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
8 configs
|
$0.99 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Lyceum only |
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H200
9 configs
|
$1.60 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Lyceum only |
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A100
9 configs
|
$0.80 /GPU/hr Spot | -- | Lyceum only |
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L4
4 configs
|
-- | $0.90 /GPU/hr On-demand | Scaleway only |
|
P100
1 config
|
-- | $1.39 /GPU/hr On-demand | Scaleway only |
Lyceum bills on-demand and spot; 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.
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 | Lyceum | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 2025 | 1999 |
| Headquarters | Germany | France |
| Locations | 3 | 10 |
| Example customers | -- | Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai |
| Website | lyceum.technology | scaleway.com |
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Our data for Lyceum was last updated on Sept. 28, 2026, and for Scaleway on Sept. 28, 2026.