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Scaleway vs Vultr

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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

Vultr logo Vultr

  • Good selection VPS configurations (GPU, dedicated, high memory)
  • Offers managed services (databases, Kubernetes, object storage)
  • Competitive pricing, generous egress
  • 30+ data center locations around the world

Price comparison

How do Scaleway's prices compare against Vultr?

VM Small

Scaleway Scaleway
$11.97 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)
Vultr Vultr
$5.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared)

VM Medium

Scaleway Scaleway
$46.18 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)
Vultr Vultr
$40.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared)

VM Large

Scaleway Scaleway
$196.24 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (COMPUTE3-X8C-16G)
Vultr Vultr
$160.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-Optimized)

Block Storage

Scaleway Scaleway
$10.90 / mo 100 GB SSD · €0.00013 / GB / hour (Low Latency 5K)
Vultr Vultr
$10.00 / mo 100 GB

Object Storage

Scaleway Scaleway
$18.44 / mo 1 TB (Standard Multi-AZ)
Vultr Vultr
$18.00 / mo 1 TB

Load Balancer

Scaleway Scaleway
$19.28 / mo LB-S (200 Mbps, 1 node) · Node only. A public IPv4 adds €3.60 / mo.
Vultr Vultr
$10.00 / mo

Managed PostgreSQL

Scaleway Scaleway
$41.91 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 50 GB storage (DB-PLAY2-NANO)
Vultr Vultr
$60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage

Managed Redis®*

Scaleway Scaleway
$40.24 / mo 2 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (RED1-MICRO, 1 node)
Vultr Vultr
$15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM

Serverless 25M Executions

Scaleway Scaleway
$33.39 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration
Vultr Vultr
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Free egress allowance

Scaleway Scaleway
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Vultr Vultr
2 TB / mo for most services

1 TB of egress beyond allowance

Scaleway Scaleway
Free for most services Bandwidth caps based on instance size
Vultr Vultr
$10.00 $0.01 / GB

GPU Fleet Overview

Same GPU, Both Providers

On-demand price per GPU-hour.

Scaleway Scaleway
Vultr Vultr
L40S $1.71 $1.67

Billing Options

Scaleway Scaleway
On-Demand
Vultr Vultr
On-DemandSpotCustom

Available Models

Scaleway offers 5 GPU models, while Vultr offers 10.

Scaleway Scaleway
H100(5) L40S(4) B300(3) L4(4) P100(1)
Vultr Vultr
H100(1) A100(3) L40S(4) B200(1) MI300X(1) MI455X(1) MI325X(1) MI355X(1) A16(3) GH200(1)

Heads up: Prices are estimates from published rates for common setups and vary by region and usage; verify with the provider before provisioning.

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Which services do they offer

Here are some managed services that Scaleway and Vultr offer:

Service Scaleway Vultr
Block Storage
Container Registry
GPU-powered Servers
Load Balancer
Managed Containers
Managed Kubernetes
Managed MySQL
Managed PostgreSQL
Managed Redis®*
NoSQL Databases
Object Storage
Serverless Functions
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

Website
Scaleway Scaleway
scaleway.com
Vultr Vultr
www.vultr.com
Headquarters
Scaleway Scaleway
France FR flag
Vultr Vultr
United States of America US flag
Founded
Scaleway Scaleway
1999
Vultr Vultr
2014
Data Center Locations
Scaleway Scaleway
10
Vultr Vultr
32
Example Customers
Scaleway Scaleway
Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai
Vultr Vultr
Edgegap, 3XC, CloudQuant, WP Bolt, VirtualShield

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Our data for Scaleway was last updated on Aug. 28, 2026, and for Vultr on Aug. 28, 2026.