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Scaleway vs Thunder Compute

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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

Thunder Compute logo Thunder Compute

  • RTX A6000, L40, A100 and H100, 1 to 8 GPUs
  • Per-minute billing, charged only while an instance runs
  • One-click VS Code and Cursor connections
  • MCP server for Claude Code, Cursor and Codex
  • 100 GB persistent disk per GPU, no egress fees

Price comparison

How do Scaleway's prices compare against Thunder Compute?

VM Small

Scaleway Scaleway
$11.92 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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VM Medium

Scaleway Scaleway
$45.97 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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VM Large

Scaleway Scaleway
$195.38 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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Block Storage

Scaleway Scaleway
$10.85 /mo 100 GB SSD · €0.00013 / GB / hour (Low Latency 5K)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
$21.60 /mo 100 GB beyond free allowance · First 100 GB per GPU included

Object Storage

Scaleway Scaleway
$18.36 /mo 1 TB (Standard Multi-AZ)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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Load Balancer

Scaleway Scaleway
$19.20 /mo LB-S (200 Mbps, 1 node) · Node only. A public IPv4 adds €3.60 / mo.
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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Managed PostgreSQL

Scaleway Scaleway
$41.73 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (DB-PLAY2-NANO)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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Managed Redis®*

Scaleway Scaleway
$40.06 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (RED1-MICRO, 1 node)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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Serverless 25M Executions

Scaleway Scaleway
$33.25 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Scaleway Scaleway
Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Free and unlimited

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Scaleway Scaleway
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
H100 $3.32 $3.20

Billing Options

Scaleway Scaleway
On-Demand
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
On-Demand

Available Models

Scaleway offers 5 GPU models, while Thunder Compute offers 4.

Scaleway Scaleway
H100(5) L40S(4) B300(1) L4(4) P100(1)
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
H100(4) A100(4) RTX A6000(1) L40(4)

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.

Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Scaleway and Thunder Compute offer:

Service Scaleway Thunder Compute
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
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
www.thundercompute.com
Headquarters
Scaleway Scaleway
France FR flag
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
United States of America US flag
Founded
Scaleway Scaleway
1999
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
2024
Data Center Locations
Scaleway Scaleway
10
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
1
Example Customers
Scaleway Scaleway
Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai
Thunder Compute Thunder Compute
Theseus, ETH Zürich, MIT, NYU Langone Health

Alternatives to consider

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Our data for Scaleway was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Thunder Compute on Sept. 11, 2026.