About Scaleway
Scaleway is a European cloud provider delivering high-performance infrastructure across Europe. It offers a complete cloud ecosystem—from Bare Metal and Virtual Instances to AI services and Generative APIs—designed for sovereign data handling and easy integration. With GDPR compliance, multiple regions, and 24/7 expert support, Scaleway emphasizes data sovereignty and transparent pricing.
Key features
- European cloud platform with a complete ecosystem (Bare Metal, Compute, Storage, Networking, Containers, AI & ML, and Generative APIs)
- Bare Metal options (Dedibox, Elastic Metal) with cloud integration
- Virtual Instances for scalable compute across development to production
- Container services and Managed Kubernetes
- Object and Block Storage with integrated database services
- Robust networking (VPC, Load Balancers, DNS) and private networks
- AI & Machine Learning capabilities, including GPU-accelerated hardware and multi-node training
- Generative APIs for serverless model hosting with OpenAI-compatible interfaces
- Data sovereignty and GDPR-compliant data centers across Europe
- 24/7 technical support and a developer-friendly API/CLI ecosystem
Why choose Scaleway?
- European-owned, European-based cloud provider focused on sovereignty and data residency
- High-performance infrastructure with dedicated hardware and scalable cloud services
- Transparent pricing with pay-as-you-go options and long-term savings (Savings Plans)
- Comprehensive security, compliance, and GDPR alignment
- Easy integration through API, CLI, and Terraform tooling, plus a collaborative developer ecosystem
- Three availability zones per region for resilience and low-latency access in Europe
Pricing
- Elastic Metal: pay by the hour or by the month. Hourly pricing from €0.122/hour and monthly pricing from €43.99/month. For monthly pricing, a one-time commitment fee applies; if renting for more than 12 months, you receive Scaleway cloud credits equal to the commitment fee.
- Virtual Instances: pay-as-you-go pricing with optional Savings Plans that can save up to 25% for long-term usage; free egress in many cases; price transparency across instance types and add-ons.
- Generative APIs: pricing in beta is pay-per-token with a free tier of 1,000,000 tokens; after GA, pricing will be pay-as-you-go per tokens per million.
- General note: Scaleway emphasizes transparent pricing with no hidden costs and includes options to optimize compute costs with Savings Plans and other billing controls.