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Salad vs Scaleway

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What's good about...

Salad logo Salad

  • 60,000+ daily active GPUs across 191 countries
  • Consumer GPU range from GTX 1050 Ti to RTX 5090
  • Rates well below datacenter GPU clouds
  • Fully managed container engine, Kubernetes-compatible deployments
  • Secure Cloud option for enterprise datacenter GPUs

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 Salad's prices compare against Scaleway?

VM Small

Closest config to 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM.
Salad Salad
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Scaleway Scaleway
$11.81 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)

VM Medium

Closest config to 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM.
Salad Salad
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Scaleway Scaleway
$45.55 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)

VM Large

Closest config to 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (dedicated preferred).
Salad Salad
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Scaleway Scaleway
$193.58 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G)

Block Storage

Closest config to 100+ GB SSD, 3,000+ IOPS, 100+ MB/s throughput, no snapshots.
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Scaleway Scaleway
$10.75 / mo 100 GB SSD · €0.00013 / GB / hour (Low Latency 5K)

Object Storage

Closest config to 1 TB stored, 100 GB in / 250 GB out, 1M GET, 100k PUT/POST.
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Scaleway Scaleway
$18.19 / mo 1 TB (Standard Multi-AZ)

Load Balancer

Closest config to TCP, 1 node (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM), 200+ Mbps, 1,000 conn/sec, 1 TB processed/mo.
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Scaleway Scaleway
$19.02 / mo LB-S (200 Mbps, 1 node) · Node only. A public IPv4 adds €3.60 / mo.

Managed PostgreSQL

Closest config to 1 node, 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50+ GB storage, 10 GB read / 5 GB write per month.
Salad Salad
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Scaleway Scaleway
$41.35 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (DB-PLAY2-NANO)

Managed Redis®*

Closest config to 1 node, 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 10 req/s, 1 KB avg request size.
Salad Salad
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Scaleway Scaleway
$39.69 / mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (RED1-MICRO, 1 node)

Serverless 25M Executions

Closest config to 25M invocations, 150ms execution time, 512 MB memory.
Salad Salad
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Scaleway Scaleway
$32.94 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Salad Salad
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Scaleway Scaleway
Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size

Salad logo Salad Pricing Details

Salad bills per hour for resources actually consumed, with no commitments. Instances are priced by component, combining the GPU rate with per-vCPU and per-GB memory rates, plus a priority level that trades cost against scheduling preference. Volume discounts are available for large deployments.

GPU Fleet Overview

Starting Price

Salad Salad
$0.03/hr
Scaleway Scaleway
$0.90/hr

Billing Options

Salad Salad
On-Demand
Scaleway Scaleway
On-Demand

Available Models

Salad offers 33 GPU models, while Scaleway offers 5.

Salad Salad
RTX 4090(1) RTX 5090(1) A5000(1) RTX 3090(1) RTX 4080(1) RTX 3080 Ti(1) RTX 5080(1) RTX 3060 Ti(1) RTX 3080(1) RTX 2060(1)
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Scaleway Scaleway
H100(5) L40S(4) B300(3) L4(4) P100(1)

Heads up: We do our best to keep these specs & prices accurate. However, cloud costs may fluctuate based on region, usage, and other factors not listed here. These are estimates based on common setups and are for informational purposes only. Always verify current rates & exact specs with the provider before provisioning.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Salad and Scaleway offer:

Service Salad Scaleway
Block Storage
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
Salad Salad
salad.com
Scaleway Scaleway
scaleway.com
Headquarters
Salad Salad
United States of America
Scaleway Scaleway
France
Founded
Salad Salad
2018
Scaleway Scaleway
1999
Data Center Locations
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Scaleway Scaleway
10
Example Customers
Salad Salad
Discord, Stability AI, Blend, undetectable.ai, Civitai
Scaleway Scaleway
Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

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Our data for Salad was last updated on Aug. 2, 2026, and for Scaleway on Aug. 3, 2026.

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GPUhub
Our sponsor
Fully Dedicated GPU Servers
No Virtualization. No Shared GPUs
Stable Performance for AI Training & Inference
Full Control for Production Workloads
Learn more