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Scaleway vs SwissGPU

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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

SwissGPU logo SwissGPU

  • Per-minute billing, stops when server is powered off
  • Dedicated bare-metal, no shared VMs
  • Switzerland-hosted with low latency to EU
  • No storage or bandwidth charges
  • Stripe payments including TWINT

Price comparison

How do Scaleway's prices compare against SwissGPU?

VM Small

Scaleway Scaleway
$11.94 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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VM Medium

Scaleway Scaleway
$46.07 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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VM Large

Scaleway Scaleway
$195.79 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G)
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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Block Storage

Scaleway Scaleway
$10.87 / mo 100 GB SSD · €0.00013 / GB / hour (Low Latency 5K)
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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Object Storage

Scaleway Scaleway
$18.40 / mo 1 TB (Standard Multi-AZ)
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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Load Balancer

Scaleway Scaleway
$19.24 / mo LB-S (200 Mbps, 1 node) · Node only. A public IPv4 adds €3.60 / mo.
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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Managed PostgreSQL

Scaleway Scaleway
$41.82 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (DB-PLAY2-NANO)
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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Managed Redis®*

Scaleway Scaleway
$40.14 / mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (RED1-MICRO, 1 node)
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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Serverless 25M Executions

Scaleway Scaleway
$33.31 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Scaleway Scaleway
Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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SwissGPU logo SwissGPU Pricing Details

Per-minute billing in CHF; the server price is the only compute charge. Electricity billed separately at CHF 0.30/kWh, with a CHF 0.50 OS reinstall fee. Payments via Stripe, including TWINT.

GPU Fleet Overview

Billing Options

Scaleway Scaleway
On-Demand
SwissGPU SwissGPU
On-Demand

Available Models

Scaleway offers 5 GPU models, while SwissGPU offers 7.

Scaleway Scaleway
H100(5) L40S(4) B300(1) L4(4) P100(1)
SwissGPU SwissGPU
RTX PRO 6000(1) RTX 5090(1) RTX 4090(1) RTX 6000 Ada(1) RTX 3090(1) RTX 4080(1) RTX 5080(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.

Thunder Compute Logo Thunder Compute
Our sponsor
RTX A6000 from $0.35, A100 from $1.09, per GPU per hour
Billed per minute, no commitment, no minimums
One click into VS Code or Cursor, no SSH setup
See live pricing

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Scaleway and SwissGPU offer:

Service Scaleway SwissGPU
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
Scaleway Scaleway
scaleway.com
SwissGPU SwissGPU
www.swissgpu.ch
Headquarters
Scaleway Scaleway
France FR flag
SwissGPU SwissGPU
Switzerland CH flag
Founded
Scaleway Scaleway
1999
SwissGPU SwissGPU
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Data Center Locations
Scaleway Scaleway
10
SwissGPU SwissGPU
1
Example Customers
Scaleway Scaleway
Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai
SwissGPU SwissGPU
EduID, Liset Capital, SPH

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Our data for Scaleway was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for SwissGPU on Aug. 31, 2026.