Scaleway
vs
Thalassa Cloud
Both sell VPS, managed Kubernetes, Postgres, object storage inside the EU. Scaleway charges less for medium VMs and adds GPUs and serverless, while Thalassa Cloud charges less for Postgres and bills per minute.
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
- European cloud with data residency in the Netherlands
- Full Terraform support and API-first platform
- Billed by the minute, with monthly invoicing in Euro
- Direct engineer support in Dutch and English
Price comparison
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Scaleway | Thalassa Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $11.61 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO) | $9.20 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM | 21% cheaper on Thalassa Cloud |
| Medium VM | $44.81 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO) | $122.83 /mo 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM | 64% cheaper on Scaleway |
| Large VM | $190.43 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G) | $249.89 /mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM | 24% cheaper on Scaleway |
| Block storage | $10.57 /mo 100 GB SSD (Low Latency 5K) | $20.01 /mo 100 GB NVMe | 47% cheaper on Scaleway |
| 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) | $24.81 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM (db-pgp.medium) | 39% cheaper on Thalassa Cloud |
| 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. | $16.75 /mo HA Network Load Balancer | 10% cheaper on Thalassa Cloud |
| 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. We track no GPU listings from Thalassa Cloud. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Scaleway | Thalassa Cloud | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
5 configs
|
$3.24 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Scaleway only |
|
B300
1 config
|
$8.47 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | -- | Scaleway only |
|
L40S
4 configs
|
$1.66 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | -- | Scaleway only |
|
L4
4 configs
|
$0.89 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Scaleway only |
|
P100
1 config
|
$1.38 /GPU/hr On-demand | -- | Scaleway only |
Scaleway 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 | Thalassa Cloud |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1999 | 2024 |
| Headquarters | France | Netherlands |
| Locations | 10 | 1 |
| Example customers | Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai | ContainerInfra, RepliKate, Balean, BrainHive, BaseTide |
| Website | scaleway.com | thalassa.cloud |
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Our data for Scaleway was last updated on Oct. 2, 2026, and for Thalassa Cloud on Sept. 18, 2026.