What's good about...

RunPod logo RunPod

  • Affordable GPUs in various configurations
  • Packed with features: hot-reloading, managed containers, logging & monitoring
  • Available in 30+ regions across the world

RunPod 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 RunPod's prices compare against Scaleway?

Example configuration RunPod Scaleway
VM Small $43.20 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized) $10.48 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
VM Medium $86.40 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized) $40.86 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
VM Large $172.80 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized) $166.60 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)
Block Storage $10.00 / mo 100 GB $9.95 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage -- $15.19 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer -- $12.07 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)
Managed PostgreSQL -- $33.53 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage
Managed Redis®* -- $36.67 / mo 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions -- $27.50 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
1 TB of egress beyond allowance Free and unlimited Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size

RunPod offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
A30 1x A30 24GB 8 31GB $0.22 Source
RTX A4000 1x A4000 16GB 4 20GB $0.32 Source
A4500 1x A4500 20GB 4 29GB $0.34 Source
A5000 1x A5000 24GB 4 24GB $0.36 Source
A40 1x A40 48GB 9 50GB $0.39 Source
RTX4090 1x RTX 4090 24GB 5 30GB $0.69 Source
A6000 1x A6000 48GB 8 62GB $0.76 Source
L40S 1x L40S 48GB 12 62GB $0.86 Source
A6000 Ada 1x A6000 48GB 14 58GB $0.88 Source
L40 1x L40S 48GB 8 94GB $0.99 Source
A100 PCIe 1x A100 80GB 8 117GB $1.64 Source
A100 SXM 1x A100 80GB 16 125GB $1.89 Source
MI250 1x MI250 128GB -- -- $2.10 Source
H100 PCIe 1x H100 80GB 16 188GB $2.39 Source
H100 SXM 1x H100 80GB 16 125GB $2.99 Source
MI300X 1x MI300X 192GB 24 283GB $2.99 Source
H200 SXM 1x H200 141GB -- -- $3.99 Source

Scaleway offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
L4-1-24G 1x L4 24GB 8 48GB $0.79 Launch
GPU-3070 1x RTX 3070 8GB 8 16GB $1.03 Source
Render-S 1x P100 16GB 10 42GB $1.30 Source
L40S-1-48G 1x L40S 48GB 8 96GB $1.47 Launch
L4-2-24G 2x L4 48GB 16 96GB $1.57 Source
H100-1-80G 1x H100 80GB 24 240GB $2.64 Launch
L40S-2-48G 2x L40S 96GB 16 192GB $2.93 Source
L4-4-24G 4x L4 96GB 32 192GB $3.14 Source
H100-2-80G 2x H100 160GB 48 480GB $5.28 Source
L40S-4-48G 4x L40S 192GB 32 384GB $5.87 Source
L4-8-24G 8x L4 192GB 64 384GB $6.29 Source
L40S-8-48G 8x L40S 384GB 64 768GB $11.74 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 RunPod and Scaleway offer:

Service RunPod 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

RunPod
Website www.runpod.io
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2022
Data Center Locations 24
Example Customers AfterShoot, Replika, Otovo, Data Science Dojo, Abzu
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 RunPod was last updated on Nov. 9, 2024, and for Scaleway on Sept. 28, 2024.