Scaleway
vs
Vast.ai
What's good about each
- All data centers in the EU
- Outbound traffic included on Instances
- GPUs from L4 up to B300, plus hosted AI models
- Managed Kubernetes, databases, serverless and Kafka
- Bare metal and Apple silicon servers
- 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
Closest matching configuration on each side, monthly list price in USD.
| Service | Scaleway | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| Small VM | $11.54 /mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO) | -- Not listed | |
| Medium VM | $44.52 /mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO) | -- Not listed | |
| Large VM | $189.20 /mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G) | -- Not listed | |
| Block storage | $10.51 /mo 100 GB SSD (Low Latency 5K) | -- Not listed | |
| Object storage | $19.74 /mo 1 TB stored, 250 GB egress (Standard Multi-AZ) | -- Not listed | |
| PostgreSQL | $40.41 /mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (DB-PLAY2-NANO) | -- Not listed | |
| Redis | $38.79 /mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (RED1-MICRO, 1 node) | -- Not listed | |
| Load balancer | $18.59 /mo LB-S (200 Mbps, 1 node) · Node only. A public IPv4 adds €3.60 / mo. | -- Not listed | |
| Serverless | $39.99 /mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration | -- Not listed | |
| Egress | Free and unlimited Bandwidth caps based on instance size | -- Not listed |
Heads up: Figures take each provider's closest plan to a common setup, and vary by region and usage. Hover a service for the reference configuration. Verify before provisioning. More on how we price.
GPUs
Scaleway offers 5 GPU models, while Vast.ai offers 65. Cheapest listed price per GPU per hour; GPUs both providers sell come first.
| GPU | Scaleway | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
H100
5 configs · 19 configs
|
$3.22 /GPU/hr On-demand | $1.73 /GPU/hr On-demand | 46% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
B300
1 config · 4 configs
|
$8.42 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | $9.94 /GPU/hr On-demand | 15% cheaper on Scaleway |
|
L40S
4 configs · 33 configs
|
$1.65 /GPU/hr On-demand · sold out | $0.62 /GPU/hr On-demand | 63% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
L4
4 configs · 6 configs
|
$0.88 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.27 /GPU/hr On-demand | 70% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
P100
1 config · 4 configs
|
$1.37 /GPU/hr On-demand | $0.08 /GPU/hr On-demand | 94% cheaper on Vast.ai |
|
B200
8 configs
|
-- | $7.50 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
H200
27 configs
|
-- | $1.34 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX PRO 6000
78 configs
|
-- | $0.23 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
RTX 5090
172 configs
|
-- | $0.26 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
|
A100
97 configs
|
-- | $0.17 /GPU/hr Spot | Vast.ai only |
Scaleway bills on-demand; Vast.ai bills on-demand, spot and reserved (1, 3, 6, 12, 24, 36 or 48 months). The line under each price names the billing type shown.
Services
Managed services each provider offers.
Compliance
Frameworks each provider states on its own site, each linked to its source.
| Framework | Scaleway | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| SOC 2 | -- | Type II, platform only |
| ISO 27001 | Yes | -- |
| HIPAA | -- | Secure Cloud tier only |
| GDPR | Yes | Yes |
Heads up: Each entry links to the provider's own statement. An attestation can cover one tier, one region or the platform alone rather than every service. Verify the scope before you rely on it. A dash means we found nothing to link to, not that the provider lacks it.
Company details
| Fact | Scaleway | Vast.ai |
|---|---|---|
| Founded | 1999 | 2018 |
| Headquarters | France | USA |
| Locations | 10 | 10 |
| Example customers | Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai | IBM, Brave, Speechify, Cognition, Bosch |
| Website | scaleway.com | vast.ai |
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Our data for Scaleway was last updated on Oct. 2, 2026, and for Vast.ai on Oct. 2, 2026.