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 Vercel

  • Superb developer experience, from git push to deployed globally in seconds
  • First class support for Next.js and other frontend frameworks
  • Great API to issue custom domains for SaaS projects
  • Very active community and plenty of learning resources

Price comparison

How do Scaleway's prices compare against Vercel?

Example configuration Scaleway Vercel
VM Small $10.94 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO) --
VM Medium $42.66 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO) --
VM Large $173.91 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S) --
Block Storage $10.39 / mo 100 GB --
Object Storage $15.86 / mo 1 TB --
Load Balancer $12.60 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps) --
Managed PostgreSQL $35.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage $151.38 / mo 1440h compute, 50 GB storage, 10 GB read/mo 5 GB write/mo
Managed Redis®* $38.28 / mo 2 GB RAM $90.72 / mo 10 req/s @ $0.35 per 100k reqs
Serverless 25M Executions $28.71 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration $108.75 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Free egress allowance -- 100 GB - 1 TB, depends on plan
1 TB of egress beyond allowance Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size $150.00 $0.15 / GB (Edge)

Scaleway offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name GPUs VRAM vCPUs RAM Price/h
L4-1-24G 1x L4 24GB 8 48GB $0.82
GPU-3070 1x RTX3070 8GB 8 16GB $1.07
Render-S 1x P100 16GB 10 42GB $1.36
L40S-1-48G 1x L40S 48GB 8 96GB $1.53
L4-2-24G 2x L4 48GB 16 96GB $1.64
H100-1-80G 1x H100 80GB 24 240GB $2.76
L40S-2-48G 2x L40S 96GB 16 192GB $3.06
L4-4-24G 4x L4 96GB 32 192GB $3.28
H100-2-80G 2x H100 160GB 48 480GB $5.51
L40S-4-48G 4x L40S 192GB 32 384GB $6.13
L4-8-24G 8x L4 192GB 64 384GB $6.56
L40S-8-48G 8x L40S 384GB 64 768GB $12.25

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 of the managed services that Scaleway and Vercel offer:

Service Scaleway Vercel
Block Storage --
Content Delivery Network (CDN) --
Container Registry --
GPU-powered Servers --
Load Balancer --
Managed Containers --
Managed Kubernetes --
Managed MySQL --
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
Object Storage
Serverless Cron Jobs --
Serverless Functions
Static Sites --
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
Vercel
Website vercel.com
Headquarters United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded 2015
Data Center Locations 18
Example Customers Box, Runway, Sonos, eBay, The Washington Post

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Our data for Scaleway was last updated on Sept. 28, 2024, and for Vercel on Sept. 28, 2024.