Scaleway vs Thunder Compute

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What's good about them
Price comparison
Services offered
Company details
Alternatives to consider

What's good about...

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

Offers affordable cloud GPUs, including A100 and H100 instances.
Simple, pay-as-you-go pricing model.
Focused on maximizing hardware utilization to provide lower costs.

Price comparison

How do Scaleway's prices compare against Thunder Compute?

Example configuration	Scaleway	Thunder Compute
VM Small	$11.70 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)	--
VM Medium	$45.65 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)	--
VM Large	$186.09 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)	--
Block Storage	$11.12 / mo 100 GB	$15.00 / mo $0.15 per GB/month 100 GB
Object Storage	$16.97 / mo 1 TB	--
Load Balancer	$13.48 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)	--
Managed PostgreSQL	$37.45 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage	--
Managed Redis®*	$40.96 / mo 2 GB RAM	--
Serverless 25M Executions	$30.72 / 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 GPUs

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
L4-1-24G	1x L4	24GB	8	48GB	$0.90	Source
GPU-3070	1x RTX 3070	8GB	8	16GB	$1.15	Source
Render-S	1x P100	16GB	10	42GB	$1.45	Source
L40S-1-48G	1x L40S	48GB	8	48GB	$1.61	Source
L4-2-24G	2x L4	48GB	16	96GB	$1.72	Source
H100-1-80G	1x H100	80GB	24	240GB	$2.95	Source
L40S-2-48G	2x L40S	96GB	16	192GB	$3.15	Source
L4-4-24G	4x L4	96GB	32	192GB	$3.37	Source
H100-2-80G	2x H100	160GB	48	480GB	$5.90	Source
L40S-4-48G	4x L40S	192GB	32	384GB	$6.23	Source
L4-8-24G	8x L4	192GB	64	384GB	$6.67	Source
L40S-8-48G	8x L40S	384GB	64	768GB	$12.39	Source

Thunder Compute GPUs

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
Tesla T4	1x T4	16GB	4	32GB	$0.27	Source
A100 (40GB)	1x A100	40GB	4	32GB	$0.57	Source
A100 (80GB)	1x A100	80GB	4	32GB	$0.78	Source
H100	1x H100	80GB	4	32GB	$1.47	Source

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 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®*		--
Object Storage		--
Serverless Functions		--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)		--

Company details

	Scaleway	Thunder Compute
Website	scaleway.com	thundercompute.com
Headquarters	France 🇫🇷	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	1999	2024
Data Center Locations	9	1
Example Customers	Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai	KronosAI, Abbvie