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Scaleway vs Vultr

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Price comparison
What services do they offer
Company details
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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

Vultr

Wide range of VPS options (GPU, dedicated, high memory)
Various managed services (databases, Kubernetes, object storage)
Attractive pricing, generous egress
30+ data center locations around the world

Price comparison

How do Scaleway's prices compare against Vultr?

Example configuration	Scaleway	Vultr
VM Small	$11.08 / mo 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM (PLAY2-PICO)	$5.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Medium	$43.22 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (PLAY2-MICRO)	$40.00 / mo 4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM (Shared)
VM Large	$176.19 / mo 8 vCPU, 32 GB RAM (PRO2-S)	$160.00 / mo 8 vCPU, 16 GB RAM (CPU-Optimized)
Block Storage	$10.53 / mo 100 GB	$10.00 / mo 100 GB
Object Storage	$16.07 / mo 1 TB	$6.00 / mo 1 TB
Load Balancer	$12.77 / mo LB-GP-S (200 Mbps)	$10.00 / mo
Managed PostgreSQL	$35.46 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 96 GB storage	$60.00 / mo 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 80 GB storage
Managed Redis®*	$38.78 / mo 2 GB RAM	$15.00 / mo 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM
Serverless 25M Executions	$29.09 / mo 25M invocations, 512 MB RAM, 150 ms duration	--
Free egress allowance	--	2 TB / mo for most services
1 TB of egress beyond allowance	Free for most services	$10.00

Scaleway offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
L4-1-24G	1x L4	24GB	8	48GB	$0.83
GPU-3070	1x RTX3070	8GB	8	16GB	$1.09
Render-S	1x P100	16GB	10	42GB	$1.37
L40S-1-48G	1x L40S	48GB	8	96GB	$1.55
L4-2-24G	2x L4	48GB	16	96GB	$1.66
H100-1-80G	1x H100	80GB	24	240GB	$2.79
L40S-2-48G	2x L40S	96GB	16	192GB	$3.10
L4-4-24G	4x L4	96GB	32	192GB	$3.32
H100-2-80G	2x H100	160GB	48	480GB	$5.58
L40S-4-48G	4x L40S	192GB	32	384GB	$6.21
L4-8-24G	8x L4	192GB	64	384GB	$6.65
L40S-8-48G	8x L40S	384GB	64	768GB	$12.41

Vultr offers GPUs in the following configurations:

Name	GPUs	VRAM	vCPUs	RAM	Price/h
A16	1x A16	16GB	6	64GB	$0.51	Launch
A16	2x A16	96GB	12	128GB	$1.02	Launch
A40	1x A40	48GB	24	120GB	$1.86	Launch
A16	4x A16	192GB	24	256GB	$2.05	Launch
L40S	1x L40S	48GB	16	240GB	$2.23
A100 80GB	1x A100	80GB	12	120GB	$2.60	Reserve
A16	8x A16	384GB	48	486GB	$4.09	Reserve
GH200	1x GH200	96GB	72	480GB	$4.34
A40	4x A40	192GB	96	480GB	$7.44	Reserve
A16	16x A16	768GB	96	960GB	$9.19	Reserve
HGX A100	8x A100	5120GB	112	2048GB	$12.90
H100	8x H100	5120GB	224	2048GB	$19.99

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.

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Which services do they offer?

Here are some of the 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®*
Object Storage
Serverless Functions		--
Virtual Private Server (VPS)

Company details

	Scaleway	Vultr
Website	scaleway.com	www.vultr.com
Headquarters	France 🇫🇷	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	1999	2014
Data Center Locations	9	32
Example Customers	Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai	Edgegap, 3XC, CloudQuant, WP Bolt, VirtualShield

	Scaleway
Website	scaleway.com
Headquarters	France 🇫🇷
Founded	1999
Data Center Locations	9
Example Customers	Cloud-IAM, Whispeak, Golem.ai

	Vultr
Website	www.vultr.com
Headquarters	United States of America 🇺🇸
Founded	2014
Data Center Locations	32
Example Customers	Edgegap, 3XC, CloudQuant, WP Bolt, VirtualShield