What's good about...

Render logo Render

  • Lots of managed services: from caches to databases to cron jobs to background workers
  • Very easy for setting up Git-based deployments
  • Managed PostgreSQL supports automated backups, replicas, Point-in-Time Recovery
  • Generous free tier

Render 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 Render's prices compare against Scaleway?

Example configuration Render Scaleway
VM Small $25.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (Web Service) $10.85 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium $175.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Web Service) $42.32 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large $450.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (Web Service) $172.53 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage $25.00 / mo 100 GB $10.31 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage -- $15.73 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer Included in plan $12.50 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL $95.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage $34.72 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®* $32.00 / mo 1 GB RAM $37.98 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions -- $28.48 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance 100 GB - 1 TB, depends on plan --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance $300.00 Free for most services

Scaleway offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs Total GPU Memory vCPUs RAM Price per hour
L4-1-24G 1x L4 24GB 8 48GB $0.81
GPU-3070 1x RTX3070 8GB 8 16GB $1.06
Render-S 1x P100 16GB 10 42GB $1.35
L40S-1-48G 1x L40S 48GB 8 96GB $1.52
L4-2-24G 2x L4 48GB 16 96GB $1.63
H100-1-80G 1x H100 80GB 24 240GB $2.73
L40S-2-48G 2x L40S 96GB 16 192GB $3.04
L4-4-24G 4x L4 96GB 32 192GB $3.26
H100-2-80G 2x H100 160GB 48 480GB $5.47
L40S-4-48G 4x L40S 192GB 32 384GB $6.08
L4-8-24G 8x L4 192GB 64 384GB $6.51
L40S-8-48G 8x L40S 384GB 64 768GB $12.15

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 of the managed services that Render and Scaleway offer:

Service Render 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 Cron Jobs --
Serverless Functions --
Static Sites --
Virtual Private Server (VPS) --

Company details

Render
Website render.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2018
Data Center Locations 4
Example Customers Red Bull, Watershed, Equals, Felt
Scaleway
Website scaleway.com
Headquarters France 🇫🇷
Founded 1999
Data Center Locations 9
Example Customers Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

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Our data for Render was last updated on July 24, 2024, and for Scaleway on July 24, 2024.