Paperspace vs Scaleway

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What's good
Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

Paperspace

Competitive GPU prices
Managed platform, from notebooks to container-based clusters
Free ingress and egress

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 Paperspace's prices compare against Scaleway?

Example configuration	Paperspace	Scaleway
VM Small	--	$10.58 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium	--	$41.27 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large	--	$168.24 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage	--	$10.05 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	--	$15.34 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	--	$12.19 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL	--	$33.86 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	--	$37.03 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions	--	$27.78 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	Free and unlimited Burst up to 10 Gbps, then soft capped at 900 Mbps	Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size

Paperspace offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
GPU+ (M4000)	1x M4000	8GB	8	30GB	$0.45	Source
P4000	1x P4000	8GB	8	30GB	$0.51	Source
RTX4000	1x RTX4000	24GB	8	30GB	$0.56	Source
P5000	1x P5000	16GB	8	30GB	$0.78	Source
A4000	1x A4000	16GB	8	45GB	$0.80	Launch
RTX5000	1x RTX5000	16GB	8	30GB	$0.82	Source
P6000	1x P6000	24GB	8	30GB	$1.10	Source
A5000	1x A5000	24GB	8	45GB	$1.42	Launch
A6000	1x A6000	48GB	8	45GB	$1.93	Launch
V100-32G	1x V100	32GB	8	30GB	$2.34	Launch
V100	1x V100	16GB	8	30GB	$2.34	Launch
A100	1x A100	40GB	8	90GB	$3.19	Launch
A100-80G	1x A100	80GB	8	90GB	$3.28	Launch
H100 PCIe	1x H100	80GB	16	268GB	$5.99	Launch

Scaleway offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
L4-1-24G	1x L4	24GB	8	48GB	$0.79	Source
GPU-3070	1x RTX3070	8GB	8	16GB	$1.04	Source
Render-S	1x P100	16GB	10	42GB	$1.31	Source
L40S-1-48G	1x L40S	48GB	8	96GB	$1.48	Source
L4-2-24G	2x L4	48GB	16	96GB	$1.59	Source
H100-1-80G	1x H100	80GB	24	240GB	$2.67	Source
L40S-2-48G	2x L40S	96GB	16	192GB	$2.96	Source
L4-4-24G	4x L4	96GB	32	192GB	$3.17	Source
H100-2-80G	2x H100	160GB	48	480GB	$5.33	Source
L40S-4-48G	4x L40S	192GB	32	384GB	$5.93	Source
L4-8-24G	8x L4	192GB	64	384GB	$6.35	Source
L40S-8-48G	8x L40S	384GB	64	768GB	$11.85	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 Paperspace and Scaleway offer:

Service	Paperspace	Scaleway
Block Storage	--
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

	Paperspace	Scaleway
Website	paperspace.com	scaleway.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸	France 🇫🇷
Founded	2014	1999
Data Center Locations	3	9
Example Customers	Fast.ai, SciSpace, Tunebat, Spectrum Labs, Kando	Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

	Paperspace
Website	paperspace.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2014
Data Center Locations	3
Example Customers	Fast.ai, SciSpace, Tunebat, Spectrum Labs, Kando