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OVH vs Scaleway

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What's good about...

OVHcloud logo OVH

  • 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 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 OVH's prices compare against Scaleway?

VM Small

OVHcloud OVH
$5.85 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (VPS-1)
Scaleway Scaleway
$11.97 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)

VM Medium

OVHcloud OVH
$10.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (VPS-2)
Scaleway Scaleway
$46.18 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)

VM Large

OVHcloud OVH
$27.50 / mo 8 vCPU, 24 GB RAM (VPS-4)
Scaleway Scaleway
$196.24 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G)

Block Storage

OVHcloud OVH
$9.50 / mo 100 GB (3000 IOPS)
Scaleway Scaleway
$10.90 / mo 100 GB SSD · €0.00013 / GB / hour (Low Latency 5K)

Object Storage

OVHcloud OVH
$10.75 / mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB read
Scaleway Scaleway
$18.44 / mo 1 TB (Standard Multi-AZ)

Load Balancer

OVHcloud OVH
$45.58 / mo Large 2 Gbps
Scaleway Scaleway
$19.28 / mo LB-S (200 Mbps, 1 node) · Node only. A public IPv4 adds €3.60 / mo.

Managed PostgreSQL

OVHcloud OVH
$51.26 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage (Essential DB1-4)
Scaleway Scaleway
$41.91 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (DB-PLAY2-NANO)

Managed Redis®*

OVHcloud OVH
$44.57 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Essential DB1-4)
Scaleway Scaleway
$40.24 / mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (RED1-MICRO, 1 node)

Serverless 25M Executions

OVHcloud OVH
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Scaleway Scaleway
$33.39 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

OVHcloud OVH
Free and unlimited Reduced bandwidth may apply
Scaleway Scaleway
Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

OVHcloud OVH
Scaleway Scaleway
H100 $2.99 $3.33 L40S $1.80 $1.71 L4 $1.00 $0.92

Billing Options

OVHcloud OVH
On-Demand
Scaleway Scaleway
On-Demand

Available Models

OVH offers 9 GPU models, while Scaleway offers 5.

OVHcloud OVH
H100(3) A100(3) H200(1) L40S(3) V100(3) L4(3) A10(3) RTX 5000(3) V100S(3)
Scaleway Scaleway
H100(5) L40S(4) B300(3) L4(4) P100(1)

Heads up: Prices are estimates from published rates for common setups and vary by region and usage; verify with the provider before provisioning.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that OVH and Scaleway offer:

Service OVH Scaleway
Block Storage
Content Delivery Network (CDN)
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
OVHcloud OVH
www.ovhcloud.com
Scaleway Scaleway
scaleway.com
Headquarters
OVHcloud OVH
France FR flag
Scaleway Scaleway
France FR flag
Founded
OVHcloud OVH
1999
Scaleway Scaleway
1999
Data Center Locations
OVHcloud OVH
19
Scaleway Scaleway
10
Example Customers
OVHcloud OVH
Société Générale, Louis Vuitton, Capgemini, Tenesys
Scaleway Scaleway
Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

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Our data for OVH was last updated on Aug. 30, 2026, and for Scaleway on Aug. 31, 2026.