What's good about...

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

Scaleway logo Shadeform

  • Launch instances anywhere with a single console and API
  • Leverage a multi-cloud set up, without the hassle
  • You can reserve instances in advance to ensure GPU availability
  • Free to use, zero mark-up fees

Price comparison

How do Scaleway's prices compare against Shadeform?

Example configuration Scaleway Shadeform
VM Small $10.39 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO) --
VM Medium $40.52 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO) --
VM Large $165.20 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S) --
Block Storage $9.87 / mo 100 GB --
Object Storage $15.07 / mo 1 TB --
Load Balancer $11.97 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps) --
Managed PostgreSQL $33.25 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage --
Managed Redis®* $36.36 / mo 2 GB RAM --
Serverless 25M Executions $27.27 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration --
1 TB of egress beyond allowance Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size --

Scaleway offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
L4-1-24G 1x L4 24GB 8 48GB $0.78 Launch
GPU-3070 1x RTX 3070 8GB 8 16GB $1.02 Source
Render-S 1x P100 16GB 10 42GB $1.29 Source
L40S-1-48G 1x L40S 48GB 8 96GB $1.45 Launch
L4-2-24G 2x L4 48GB 16 96GB $1.56 Source
H100-1-80G 1x H100 80GB 24 240GB $2.62 Launch
L40S-2-48G 2x L40S 96GB 16 192GB $2.91 Source
L4-4-24G 4x L4 96GB 32 192GB $3.12 Source
H100-2-80G 2x H100 160GB 48 480GB $5.24 Source
L40S-4-48G 4x L40S 192GB 32 384GB $5.82 Source
L4-8-24G 8x L4 192GB 64 384GB $6.23 Source
L40S-8-48G 8x L40S 384GB 64 768GB $11.64 Source

Shadeform does not charge any fees to use their marketplace. You pay the same price as using the cloud providers directly.

Here are some example configurations:

GPU VRAM Price range (per hour)
Nvidia A4000 16 GB $0.30-0.80
Nvidia A6000 48 GB $0.57-1.93
Nvidia V100 16 GB $0.69-3.06
Nvidia L40S 48 GB $0.99-1.15
Nvidia A100 40 GB $1.29-3.19
Nvidia H100 80 GB $2.48-5.99

You can view the full list here.

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 Scaleway and Shadeform offer:

Service Scaleway Shadeform
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

Scaleway
Website scaleway.com
Headquarters France 🇫🇷
Founded 1999
Data Center Locations 9
Example Customers Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai
Shadeform
Website shadeform.ai
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2023
Data Center Locations --
Example Customers University of California Berkeley, Magic Studio, Neets.ai, MK1

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Our data for Scaleway was last updated on Sept. 28, 2024, and for Shadeform on Aug. 16, 2024.