Scaleway
vs
Sesterce
Both rent H100, B300, L4 and L40S GPUs on demand. Scaleway adds VPS, managed databases, Kubernetes and serverless inside the EU, while Sesterce rents a wider catalog from A10 to GH200 on four continents.
What's good about each
- All data centers in the EU
- Outbound traffic included on Instances
- GPUs from L4 up to B300, plus hosted AI models
- Managed Kubernetes, databases, serverless and Kafka
- Bare metal and Apple silicon servers
- Wide selection of Nvidia, AMD, and Intel GPUs
- Provides both virtualized GPU instances and dedicated bare-metal clusters
- Specializes in infrastructure for AI/ML model training and inference
- Based in the EU, may ease GDPR compliance
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Scaleway | Sesterce | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $11.61 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $44.81 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $190.43 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G) | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $10.57 /mo 100 GB SSD (Low Latency 5K) | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $19.87 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress (Standard Multi-AZ) | -- Not listed | |
| PostgreSQL | $40.67 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (DB-PLAY2-NANO) | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | $39.05 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (RED1-MICRO, 1 node) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $18.71 /mo LB-S (200 Mbps, 1 node) · Node only. A public IPv4 adds €3.60 / mo. | -- Not listed | |
| Serverless | $40.25 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | Free and unlimited Bandwidth caps based on instance size | -- Not listed |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
Scaleway offers 5 GPU models, while Sesterce offers 23. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Scaleway | Sesterce | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
5 configs · 34 configs
|
$3.24 /GPU/hr On-demand | $2.75 /GPU/hr On-demand | 15% cheaper on Sesterce |
|
B300
1 config · 6 configs
|
$8.47 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | $4.95 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | 42% cheaper on Sesterce |
|
L40S
4 configs · 19 configs
|
$1.66 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | $1.65 /GPU/hr On-demand | Within 5% |
|
L4
4 configs · 4 configs
|
$0.89 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.04 /GPU/hr On-demand | 15% cheaper on Scaleway |
|
P100
1 config
|
$1.38 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Scaleway only |
|
B200
10 configs
|
-- | $4.11 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | Sesterce only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
18 configs
|
-- | $1.09 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | Sesterce only |
|
H200
12 configs
|
-- | $4.40 /GPU/hr On-demand | Sesterce only |
|
RTX 5090
6 configs
|
-- | $0.71 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | Sesterce only |
|
A100
44 configs
|
-- | $1.49 /GPU/hr On-demand | Sesterce only |
Scaleway bills on-demand; Sesterce bills on-demand. The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | Scaleway | Sesterce |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1999 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | France | France |
| Locations | 10 | 43 |
| Example customers | Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai | -- |
| Website | scaleway.com | www.sesterce.com |
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Our data for Scaleway was last updated on Oct. 2, 2026, and for Sesterce on Oct. 2, 2026.