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 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 $11.41 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO) --
VM Medium $44.50 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO) --
VM Large $181.43 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S) --
Block Storage $10.84 / mo 100 GB $15.00 / mo $0.15 per GB/month 100 GB
Object Storage $16.55 / mo 1 TB --
Load Balancer $13.15 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps) --
Managed PostgreSQL $36.52 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage --
Managed Redis®* $39.94 / mo 2 GB RAM --
Serverless 25M Executions $29.95 / 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 $1.12 Source
Render-S 1x P100 16GB 10 42GB $1.41 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 $2.88 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 $5.75 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
Website scaleway.com
Headquarters France 🇫🇷
Founded 1999
Data Center Locations 9
Example Customers Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai
Thunder Compute
Website thundercompute.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2024
Data Center Locations 1
Example Customers KronosAI, Abbvie

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Our data for Scaleway was last updated on Sept. 28, 2024, and for Thunder Compute on June 7, 2025.