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Nova Cloud vs Scaleway

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What's good about...

Nova Cloud logo Nova Cloud

  • Per-second billing with no contracts or minimum spend
  • Owned-and-operated datacenters in Western Canada
  • Reserved 1, 3, and 6 month terms for additional discounts
  • 5 Gb/s network bandwidth with all ports available

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 Nova Cloud's prices compare against Scaleway?

VM Small

Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
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Scaleway Scaleway
$11.94 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)

VM Medium

Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
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Scaleway Scaleway
$46.07 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)

VM Large

Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
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Scaleway Scaleway
$195.79 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G)

Block Storage

Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
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Scaleway Scaleway
$10.87 / mo 100 GB SSD · €0.00013 / GB / hour (Low Latency 5K)

Object Storage

Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
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Scaleway Scaleway
$18.40 / mo 1 TB (Standard Multi-AZ)

Load Balancer

Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
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Scaleway Scaleway
$19.24 / mo LB-S (200 Mbps, 1 node) · Node only. A public IPv4 adds €3.60 / mo.

Managed PostgreSQL

Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
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Scaleway Scaleway
$41.82 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (DB-PLAY2-NANO)

Managed Redis®*

Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
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Scaleway Scaleway
$40.14 / mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (RED1-MICRO, 1 node)

Serverless 25M Executions

Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
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Scaleway Scaleway
$33.31 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
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Scaleway Scaleway
Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
On-DemandSpotReserved (1mo)Reserved (3mo)Reserved (6mo)
Scaleway Scaleway
On-Demand

Available Models

Nova Cloud offers 2 GPU models, while Scaleway offers 5.

Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
RTX PRO 6000(20) RTX 5090(20)
Scaleway Scaleway
H100(5) L40S(4) B300(1) 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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Our sponsor
RTX A6000 from $0.35, A100 from $1.09, per GPU per hour
Billed per minute, no commitment, no minimums
One click into VS Code or Cursor, no SSH setup
See live pricing

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Nova Cloud and Scaleway offer:

Service Nova Cloud 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
Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
nova-cloud.ai
Scaleway Scaleway
scaleway.com
Headquarters
Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
Canada CA flag
Scaleway Scaleway
France FR flag
Founded
Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
2018
Scaleway Scaleway
1999
Data Center Locations
Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
1
Scaleway Scaleway
10
Example Customers
Nova Cloud Nova Cloud
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Scaleway Scaleway
Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

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Our data for Nova Cloud was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Scaleway on Sept. 11, 2026.