OVH vs Scaleway

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

What's good about...

OVHcloud

Wide range of managed services and VPS configurations
Competitive prices, unlimited free egress
10+ data center locations
European-based, may ease GDPR compliance requirements

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 OVHcloud's prices compare against Scaleway?

Example configuration	OVHcloud	Scaleway
VM Small	$36.58 / mo 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (b3-8)	$10.20 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium	$73.15 / mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (b3-16)	$39.77 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large	$130.54 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (c3-16)	$162.15 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage	$9.50 / mo 100 GB (3000 IOPS)	$9.69 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$10.75 / mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB read	$14.79 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$45.58 / mo Large 2 Gbps	$11.75 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL	$51.26 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Essential DB1-4)	$32.63 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	$44.57 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Essential DB1-4)	$35.69 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions	--	$26.77 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	Free and unlimited Reduced bandwidth may apply	Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size

OVH offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
t1-le-45	1x V100	16GB	8	45GB	$0.77	Source
t2-le-45	1x V100S	32GB	15	45GB	$0.88	Source
l4-90	1x L4	24GB	22	90GB	$1.00	Source
t1-le-90	2x V100	32GB	16	90GB	$1.55	Source
t2-le-90	2x V100S	64GB	30	90GB	$1.76	Source
l40s-90	1x L40S	48GB	15	90GB	$1.80	Source
t1-45	1x V100	16GB	8	45GB	$1.97	Source
l4-180	2x L4	48GB	45	180GB	$2.00	Source
t2-45	1x V100S	32GB	15	45GB	$2.19	Source
h100-380	1x H100	80GB	30	380GB	$2.99	Source
a100-180	1x A100	80GB	15	180GB	$3.07	Source
t1-le-180	4x V100	64GB	32	180GB	$3.10	Source
t2-le-180	4x V100S	128GB	60	180GB	$3.53	Source
l40s-180	2x L40S	96GB	30	180GB	$3.60	Source
t1-90	2x V100	32GB	18	90GB	$3.94	Source
l4-360	4x L4	96GB	90	360GB	$4.00	Source
t2-90	2x V100S	64GB	30	90GB	$4.38	Source
h100-760	2x H100	160GB	60	760GB	$5.98	Source
a100-360	2x A100	160GB	30	360GB	$6.15	Source
l40s-360	4x L40S	192GB	60	360GB	$7.20	Source
t1-180	4x V100	64GB	36	180GB	$7.89	Source
t2-180	4x V100S	128GB	60	180GB	$8.76	Source
h100-1520	4x H100	320GB	120	1520GB	$11.97	Source
a100-720	4x A100	320GB	60	720GB	$12.29	Source

Scaleway offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
L4-1-24G	1x L4	24GB	8	48GB	$0.76	Source
GPU-3070	1x RTX 3070	8GB	8	16GB	$1.00	Source
Render-S	1x P100	16GB	10	42GB	$1.26	Source
L40S-1-48G	1x L40S	48GB	8	96GB	$1.43	Source
L4-2-24G	2x L4	48GB	16	96GB	$1.53	Source
H100-1-80G	1x H100	80GB	24	240GB	$2.57	Source
L40S-2-48G	2x L40S	96GB	16	192GB	$2.86	Source
L4-4-24G	4x L4	96GB	32	192GB	$3.06	Source
H100-2-80G	2x H100	160GB	48	480GB	$5.14	Source
L40S-4-48G	4x L40S	192GB	32	384GB	$5.71	Source
L4-8-24G	8x L4	192GB	64	384GB	$6.12	Source
L40S-8-48G	8x L40S	384GB	64	768GB	$11.42	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 OVHcloud and Scaleway offer:

Service	OVHcloud	Scaleway
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)		--
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

	OVHcloud	Scaleway
Website	www.ovhcloud.com	scaleway.com
Headquarters	France 🇫🇷	France 🇫🇷
Founded	1999	1999
Data Center Locations	12	9
Example Customers	Société Générale, Louis Vuitton, Capgemini, Tenesys	Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

	OVHcloud
Website	www.ovhcloud.com
Headquarters	France 🇫🇷
Founded	1999
Data Center Locations	12
Example Customers	Société Générale, Louis Vuitton, Capgemini, Tenesys