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Runpod vs Scaleway

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What's good about...

Runpod logo Runpod

  • Deploy affordable GPUs in under a minute
  • Scale across 30+ regions worldwide
  • SOC 2 Type II certified, 99.9% uptime SLA
  • Flexible billing: pay by the second, no commitments
  • Multi-node Clusters scale to thousands of GPUs
  • Built-in deployments, autoscaling & monitoring

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 Runpod's prices compare against Scaleway?

VM Small

Runpod Runpod
$43.20 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
Scaleway Scaleway
$11.92 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)

VM Medium

Runpod Runpod
$86.40 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
Scaleway Scaleway
$45.97 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)

VM Large

Runpod Runpod
$172.80 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (Compute-Optimized)
Scaleway Scaleway
$195.38 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G)

Block Storage

Runpod Runpod
$10.00 /mo 100 GB
Scaleway Scaleway
$10.85 /mo 100 GB SSD · €0.00013 / GB / hour (Low Latency 5K)

Object Storage

Runpod Runpod
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Scaleway Scaleway
$18.36 /mo 1 TB (Standard Multi-AZ)

Load Balancer

Runpod Runpod
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Scaleway Scaleway
$19.20 /mo LB-S (200 Mbps, 1 node) · Node only. A public IPv4 adds €3.60 / mo.

Managed PostgreSQL

Runpod Runpod
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Scaleway Scaleway
$41.73 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (DB-PLAY2-NANO)

Managed Redis®*

Runpod Runpod
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Scaleway Scaleway
$40.06 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (RED1-MICRO, 1 node)

Serverless 25M Executions

Runpod Runpod
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Scaleway Scaleway
$33.25 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration

Free egress allowance

Runpod Runpod
Free and unlimited
Scaleway Scaleway
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Runpod Runpod
Free and unlimited
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.

Runpod Runpod
Scaleway Scaleway
H100 $3.49 $3.32 B300 $7.89 $8.69 L40S $0.79 $1.70 L4 $0.49 $0.91

Billing Options

Runpod Runpod
On-DemandReservation
Scaleway Scaleway
On-Demand

Available Models

Runpod offers 35 GPU models, while Scaleway offers 5.

Runpod Runpod
H100(10) H200(6) A100(7) RTX PRO 6000(3) B200(3) L40S(3) B300(4) RTX A6000(3) RTX 5090(3) V100(2)
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Scaleway Scaleway
H100(5) L40S(4) B300(1) L4(4) P100(1)

Heads up: A provider's own page may quote a different figure, for example on tax, region or a promotion. A monthly-only plan shows a derived hourly rate. Plan figures take each provider's closest match to a common setup. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.

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®*
NoSQL Databases
Object Storage
Python Notebooks
Serverless Functions
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Runpod Runpod
www.runpod.io
Scaleway Scaleway
scaleway.com
Headquarters
Runpod Runpod
United States of America US flag
Scaleway Scaleway
France FR flag
Founded
Runpod Runpod
2022
Scaleway Scaleway
1999
Data Center Locations
Runpod Runpod
32
Scaleway Scaleway
10
Example Customers
Runpod Runpod
Zillow, CivitAI, Wix, OpenAI, Perplexity, Cursor
Scaleway Scaleway
Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

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Our data for Runpod was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Scaleway on Sept. 11, 2026.