Scaleway vs UpCloud

Both, Scaleway and Upcloud are European cloud providers. However, Scaleway offers a wide range of managed services such as serverless functions and GPUs, while UpCloud specializes on high performance servers, databases and networking solutions.

In this page:

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

UpCloud

Wide range of VPS options at competitive prices
Good selection of managed services, from databases to object storage to Kubernetes
Offers a 100% SLA with 50x compensation for service outages
Based in the EU, may ease GDPR compliance

Price comparison

How do Scaleway's prices compare against UpCloud?

Example configuration	Scaleway	UpCloud
VM Small	$10.20 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)	$3.06 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Medium	$39.77 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)	$53.03 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (General)
VM Large	$162.15 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)	$163.17 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (High CPU)
Block Storage	$9.69 / mo 100 GB	$22.44 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$14.79 / mo 1 TB	$20.40 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$11.75 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)	$10.20 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	$32.63 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage	$61.19 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	$35.69 / mo 2 GB RAM	$50.99 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions	$26.77 / 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	Free and unlimited 1-24 TB per instance, then lower bandwidth

Scaleway offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
L4-1-24G	1x L4	24GB	8	48GB	$0.76	Source
GPU-3070	1x RTX 3070	8GB	8	16GB	$1.00	Source
Render-S	1x P100	16GB	10	42GB	$1.26	Source
L40S-1-48G	1x L40S	48GB	8	96GB	$1.43	Source
L4-2-24G	2x L4	48GB	16	96GB	$1.53	Source
H100-1-80G	1x H100	80GB	24	240GB	$2.57	Source
L40S-2-48G	2x L40S	96GB	16	192GB	$2.86	Source
L4-4-24G	4x L4	96GB	32	192GB	$3.06	Source
H100-2-80G	2x H100	160GB	48	480GB	$5.14	Source
L40S-4-48G	4x L40S	192GB	32	384GB	$5.71	Source
L4-8-24G	8x L4	192GB	64	384GB	$6.12	Source
L40S-8-48G	8x L40S	384GB	64	768GB	$11.42	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 UpCloud offer:

Service	Scaleway	UpCloud
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	UpCloud
Website	scaleway.com	upcloud.com
Headquarters	France 🇫🇷	Finland 🇫🇮
Founded	1999	2012
Data Center Locations	9	13
Example Customers	Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai	Aiven, Xensam, HackTheBox, LeadDesk