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
Vast.ai
- Budget cards to Blackwell, including the RTX PRO 6000 and B200
- On-demand, interruptible and reserved rentals
- SOC 2 Type II certified, with vetted datacenter hosts in Secure Cloud
- Host reliability ratings and GPU performance benchmarks
- REST API, CLI, Python SDK and coding agent plugins
Price comparison
How do Scaleway's prices compare against Vast.ai?
VM Small
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VM Medium
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VM Large
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Block Storage
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Object Storage
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Load Balancer
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Managed PostgreSQL
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Managed Redis®*
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Serverless 25M Executions
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1 TB of egress beyond allowance
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Vast.ai Pricing Details
Hosts set their own rates. Compute is billed per second from prepaid credits. Storage charges continue while an instance is stopped, and bandwidth fees vary by host.
- On-demand: Fixed rates for the offer's maximum duration.
- Interruptible: Bid for capacity. Instances pause if you're outbid or an on-demand renter takes the machine.
- Reserved: Prepay for a fixed term, with larger discounts for longer commitments.
GPU Fleet Overview
Same GPU, Both Providers
On-demand price per GPU-hour.
Billing Options
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Available Models
Scaleway offers 5 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 14.
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 Vast.ai offer:
Company details
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| Website | scaleway.com | vast.ai |
| Headquarters |
France 
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United States of America 
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| Founded | 1999 | 2018 |
| Data Center Locations | 10 | 10 |
| Example Customers | Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai | IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch |
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Our data for Scaleway was last updated on Sept. 11, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Sept. 11, 2026.