Operator · Paris, FR · founded 1999
Scaleway
French cloud provider (iliad Group) with per-minute NVIDIA GPU Instances (L4, L40S, H100 PCIe/SXM, B300) in Paris and Warsaw, managed Kubernetes and managed inference, positioned on EU data sovereignty.
GPU types5with a current offer
Current offers7070 readings on file · last 45 days
H100 from$3.20per GPU-hour, on-demand
Entry price$0.88cheapest GPU-hour listed
Countries23 named regions
Trust Score v0.185/100
- Company & track record100
- Infrastructure control100
- Pricing & billing transparency100
- Reliability signals75
- Security & compliance47
- Customer signal—
Scored Sep 29, 2026 from the provider's own pages. Dimensions not yet measured are excluded from the denominator. Criteria ↓
Trust Score · 5 of 6 dimensions measuredThe score, criterion by criterion
Each point comes from something the provider publishes, with the page it was read on and the date. Anything not disclosed earns zero.
Company & track record
weight 15%
100 / 100
| Founding year published | 1999scaleway.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Headquarters published | Scaleway SASscaleway.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
| Legal entity named | Scaleway SASscaleway.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Funding or ownership disclosed | Subsidiary of the iliad Groupscaleway.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
Infrastructure control
weight 15%
100 / 100
| Capacity model published | operates or rents dedicated capacityscaleway.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 10 / 10 |
| Regions published | 3 regions or countriesscaleway.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
Pricing & billing transparency
weight 20%
100 / 100
| Public prices without an account | yes (read on the pricing page)scaleway.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 5 / 5 |
| Billing granularity published | per minutescaleway.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Egress policy published | included (GPU page: no egress fees, 'Transfer data without penalty'); Object Storage egress 75 GB free then EUR 0.01/GBscaleway.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Stopped-instance billing published | Compute billing stops when the Instance is powered off; block volumes, snapshots and flexible IPs keep billing for their whole allocationscaleway.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| Public IPv4 policy published | extra: EUR 0.005/hour per additional IPv4 on the network pricing page (Instances FAQ states EUR 0.004/hour); IPv6 freescaleway.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
Reliability signals
weight 20%
75 / 100
| Status page | https://status.scaleway.comscaleway.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 6 / 6 |
| SLA published | 99.5% on all GPU Instancesscaleway.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 6 / 6 |
| SLA with a numeric uptime commitment | 99.5% on all GPU Instancesscaleway.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
| Uptime history published | not disclosedscaleway.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 5 |
| Observed availability (30 days) | not measured yet | — |
Security & compliance
weight 15%
47 / 100
| SOC 2 | not disclosedscaleway.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 0 / 8 |
| ISO 27001 | ISO/IEC 27001:2022scaleway.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 4 / 4 |
| HIPAA or GDPR DPA | yes (DPA on contracts page, GDPR compliance)scaleway.com · Sep 29, 2026 | 3 / 3 |
Customer signal
weight 15%
not measured
| Aggregated public reviews | not collected yet | — |
provisional v0.1: evidence from the provider's own pages; dimensions not yet measured are excluded from the denominatorFull method →
Prices by GPU · 5 GPU types with a current offerWhat Scaleway charges, against the market
Cheapest current on-demand true cost here, next to the market median for the same GPU. Negative means cheaper than the market.
| GPU | Cheapest here | Market median | vs market | Current offers | Modes | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| H100 | $3.20 | $3.17 | +1% | 7 | on-demand | H100 prices |
| L40S | $1.64 | $1.24 | +33% | 8 | on-demand | L40S prices |
| B300 | $8.38 | $8.99 | −7% | 1 | on-demand | B300 prices |
| L4 | $0.88 | $0.80 | +9% | 12 | on-demand | L4 prices |
| Tesla P100 | $1.36 | $0.07 | +1721% | 2 | on-demand | Tesla P100 prices |
All offers · 70 readings on fileEvery Scaleway offer, with its receipt
Current offers (last 45 days) ranked by true cost, all rental modes, each with its read date. Older readings stay listed below, in grey.
| GPU | Configuration | Mode | Region | Stock | List | True cost | Read | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| L4 | 8× L464 vCPU · 384 GB RAM | On-demand | France | Unavailable | $0.88 | $0.88 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L4 | 8× L464 vCPU · 384 GB RAM | On-demand | France | Unavailable | $0.88 | $0.88 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L4 | 8× L464 vCPU · 384 GB RAM | On-demand | Poland | Unavailable | $0.88 | $0.88 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L4 | 4× L432 vCPU · 192 GB RAM | On-demand | France | Unavailable | $0.88 | $0.88 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L4 | 4× L432 vCPU · 192 GB RAM | On-demand | France | Unavailable | $0.88 | $0.88 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L4 | 4× L432 vCPU · 192 GB RAM | On-demand | Poland | Unavailable | $0.88 | $0.88 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L4 | 2× L416 vCPU · 96 GB RAM | On-demand | France | In stock | $0.88 | $0.88 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L4 | 2× L416 vCPU · 96 GB RAM | On-demand | France | In stock | $0.88 | $0.88 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L4 | 2× L416 vCPU · 96 GB RAM | On-demand | Poland | Unavailable | $0.88 | $0.88 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L4 | 1× L48 vCPU · 48 GB RAM | On-demand | France | In stock | $0.88 | $0.88 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L4 | 1× L48 vCPU · 48 GB RAM | On-demand | France | In stock | $0.88 | $0.88 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L4 | 1× L48 vCPU · 48 GB RAM | On-demand | Poland | In stock | $0.88 | $0.88 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| Tesla P100outlier · suspended | 1× Tesla P10010 vCPU · 42 GB RAM | On-demand | France | Stock unknown | $1.36 | $1.36 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| Tesla P100outlier · suspended | 1× Tesla P10010 vCPU · 42 GB RAM | On-demand | France | In stock | $1.36 | $1.36 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L40S | 1× L40S8 vCPU · 96 GB RAM | On-demand | France | In stock | $1.64 | $1.64 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L40S | 1× L40S8 vCPU · 96 GB RAM | On-demand | Poland | Unavailable | $1.64 | $1.64 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L40S | 8× L40S64 vCPU · 768 GB RAM | On-demand | France | Unavailable | $1.64 | $1.64 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L40S | 8× L40S64 vCPU · 768 GB RAM | On-demand | Poland | Unavailable | $1.64 | $1.64 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L40S | 4× L40S32 vCPU · 384 GB RAM | On-demand | France | Unavailable | $1.64 | $1.64 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L40S | 4× L40S32 vCPU · 384 GB RAM | On-demand | Poland | Unavailable | $1.64 | $1.64 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L40S | 2× L40S16 vCPU · 192 GB RAM | On-demand | France | In stock | $1.64 | $1.64 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| L40S | 2× L40S16 vCPU · 192 GB RAM | On-demand | Poland | Unavailable | $1.64 | $1.64 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| H100PCIE | 2× H100 PCIE48 vCPU · 480 GB RAM | On-demand | France | In stock | $3.20 | $3.20 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| H100PCIE | 2× H100 PCIE48 vCPU · 480 GB RAM | On-demand | Poland | Unavailable | $3.20 | $3.20 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
| H100PCIE | 1× H100 PCIE24 vCPU · 240 GB RAM | On-demand | France | In stock | $3.20 | $3.20 | 00:20 UTCfresh | Receipt |
30 fresh offers · the 25 cheapest shown here, all of them in the comparison tool · prices per GPU-hour · true cost includes the add-ons the provider publishesOpen in the comparison tool →
True cost & billing · read Sep 29, 2026What the hourly price does not say
Billing granularity, minimums, what a stopped machine costs, traffic, addresses, deposits and identity checks, as published by the provider.
Billing
- Billing granularity
- per minute
- Minimum charge
- Billing FAQ: each resource billed for a minimum of 60 minutes (FAQ reviewed 2025-09-09); Instances FAQ: GPU Instances billed per minute of uptime including startup and standby, RENDER-S per hour
- Stopped instance
- Compute billing stops when the Instance is powered off; block volumes, snapshots and flexible IPs keep billing for their whole allocation
- Egress
- included (GPU page: no egress fees, 'Transfer data without penalty'); Object Storage egress 75 GB free then EUR 0.01/GB
- Public IPv4
- extra: EUR 0.005/hour per additional IPv4 on the network pricing page (Instances FAQ states EUR 0.004/hour); IPv6 free
- Billing model
- postpaid invoice
- Minimum deposit
- not published
- Free credits
- Generative APIs free tier: 1 million tokens and 60 minutes of audio transcription; no GPU Instance credit published
Account
- Payment
- card
- Sign-up
- email, password, card, government ID, support request for multi-GPU and H100/B300 types
- Identity check
- ID required
- Support
- tickets 24/7, hotline (paid plans), Slack community
- Enterprise support
- not published
- SLA
- 99.5% on all GPU Instances
- Status page
- status.scaleway.com ↗
- Published uptime
- not published
Infrastructure
- Regions
3 named regions in 2 countries
PAR-1 (France) · PAR-2 (France) · WAW-2 (Poland)- Countries
- France, Poland
- Platform
- API, CLI, serverless, SSH, custom Docker images, persistent volumes, snapshotsTerraform: officialKubernetes: managedInterconnect: NVLink 4th gen 900 GB/s (H100-SXM), NVLink 5th gen 1800 GB/s (B300); AI Supercomputer clusters with InfiniBand 400 Gb/sClusters: AI Supercomputer custom clusters (DGX H100, 16 to 1,016 GPUs), contact sales
- Storage
- volume · EUR 0.000130/GB-hour (Block Storage 5K, ~USD 0.1073/GB-month at 720 h); EUR 0.000177/GB-hour (Block 15K, ~USD 0.1460/GB-month) · Paris; converted at 1.1460 and 720 hobject · EUR 0.01606/GB-month Standard Multi-AZ, EUR 0.00803 One Zone, EUR 0.00254 Glacier; object egress 75 GB free per month then EUR 0.01/GB · Parisnetwork · File Storage EUR 0.000221/hour (EUR 0.16133/month) per unit, 25 GB to 50 TB · Unit as displayed on the pricing pageephemeral · included · Scratch NVMe included on L40S, H100 and B300 Instances (lost on stop)
- Migration out
- Instances run standard Ubuntu GPU OS images with Docker/NVIDIA Container Toolkit; block volumes can be snapshotted and images exported; Object Storage is S3-compatible; Kapsule is standard Kubernetes. No egress fee on Instances eases data export.
Security & compliance
- SOC 2
- not published
- ISO 27001
- ISO/IEC 27001:2022
- HIPAA
- not published
- GDPR / DPA
- yes (DPA on contracts page, GDPR compliance)
- Other
- HDS (French health data hosting; all GPU Instances HDS compliant per GPU FAQ); SecNumCloud under assessment
- Legal entity
- Scaleway SAS
- Funding
- Subsidiary of the iliad Group
Read on the provider's own pages · 17 pages read · facts marked "not published" were looked for and not foundPages read ↓
Assessment · documents read Sep 29, 2026Scaleway, in short
What stood out when we read the documents: strengths, weaknesses, who it suits, and what we could not find.
Strengths
- EU data residency and HDS compliance on all GPU Instances; ISO/IEC 27001:2022.
- Per-minute billing for GPU Instances; compute billing stops when powered off.
- Single-GPU H100 PCIe at EUR 2.87/hour and L4 at EUR 0.79/hour, available in Paris and Warsaw.
- B300-SXM 8-GPU instance published at EUR 60/hour (USD 8.595 per GPU-hour).
- No egress fees for Instances; IPv6 free.
- Official Terraform provider, CLI and API; managed Kubernetes (Kapsule) with GPU operator; managed inference.
- Written 99.5% SLA on GPU Instances.
Weaknesses
- Government photo ID plus facial verification required before any GPU Instance can be used; multi-GPU, H100 and B300 types also need a support request.
- No spot/interruptible GPU instances; GPUs not eligible to Savings Plans; no public reserved pricing.
- H100 SXM normalises to USD 3.63 to 3.79 per GPU-hour, about twice GPUBank's 1.85.
- IPv4 billed extra (EUR 0.005/hour) and block storage billed separately (EUR 0.000130/GB-hour for Block 5K).
- Only 2 GPU regions (Paris, Warsaw); H100-SXM and B300 in PAR-2 only.
- Card (physical, non-prepaid) mandatory even with SEPA; no crypto; postpaid monthly invoicing.
Ideal for
- European companies needing EU-sovereign, HDS-compliant GPU hosting with invoices and VAT handling
- Teams wanting single L4 or H100 PCIe GPUs in France with per-minute billing
Not published
- RENDER-S (P100) price not shown on the rendered pricing page
- recorded in catalogue only.
- H100-SXM-1-80G and B300-SXM-1/2/4-288G appear in the quotas page but have no published price.
- Conflict between billing FAQ (minimum 60 minutes per resource) and Instances/GPU FAQ (GPU billed per minute)
- Flexible IPv4 price conflict: EUR 0.005/hour (network pricing) vs EUR 0.004/hour (Instances FAQ).
- Founding year not stated on the pages read.
- SOC 2 and HIPAA status not published.
- Serverless GPU (Serverless Containers with GPU) not verified
- 'serverless' true refers to Generative APIs serverless and dedicated inference.
- Status page URL not verified by capture.
- SDK languages not verified on a captured page.
Observations
GPU pricing page shows EUR per hour and approx. per month, excl. VAT, per zone selector; default zone PAR-1 shows most GPU types as 'Not available in this zone'
Prices identical across PAR-2 and WAW-2 where offered
RENDER-S (P100) appears in docs and quotas but not in the rendered price table
Cost estimator on the GPU page includes volume and flexible IPv4 lines
Pages read
- scaleway.com/en/pricing/gpu/ — GPU instance prices per zone (captured for PAR-1, PAR-2, WAW-2
- scaleway.com/en/pricing/model-as-a-service/ — Managed inference GPU prices, Generative API free tier
- scaleway.com/en/gpu-instances/ — Per-minute billing, SLA 99.5%, HDS, no egress fees, Savings Plans exclusion
- scaleway.com/en/docs/gpu/reference-content/choosing-gpu-instance-type/ — GPU specs, NVLink, scratch storage, AI Supercomputer, SLO
- scaleway.com/en/docs/billing/faq/ — Payment methods, invoicing, minimum 60 minutes, suspension rules
- scaleway.com/en/docs/instances/faq/ — GPU per-minute billing, stopped instance billing, IPv4 price
- scaleway.com/en/docs/organizations-and-projects/organization/organization-quotas/ — GPU access requires identity validation or support contact
- scaleway.com/en/docs/account/setup-lifecycle/verify-identity/ — Government photo ID and face verification
- scaleway.com/en/pricing/network/ — Additional IPv4 price
- scaleway.com/en/pricing/storage/ — Block, object and file storage prices
- scaleway.com/en/product-availability-by-region/ — GPU availability by region
- scaleway.com/en/security-and-compliance/ — ISO 27001, HDS, SecNumCloud status, GDPR
- scaleway.com/en/support/ — Support tiers and prices
- scaleway.com/en/about-us/ — iliad Group subsidiary, countries of operation
- scaleway.com/en/terms/sla/ — SLA documents per product
- registry.terraform.io/providers/scaleway/scaleway/latest/docs — Official Terraform provider
- scaleway.com/en/docs/instances/api-cli/ — API and CLI
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Questions about Scaleway
What GPUs does Scaleway offer?
Scaleway has 5 GPU types with a fresh offer today, for example H100 from $3.20, L40S from $1.64, B300 from $8.38, L4 from $0.88, Tesla P100 from $1.36 per GPU-hour on-demand. The full list with prices and market medians is on this page.
How does Scaleway bill?
Billing granularity: per minute. Minimum charge: Billing FAQ: each resource billed for a minimum of 60 minutes (FAQ reviewed 2025-09-09); Instances FAQ: GPU Instances billed per minute of uptime including startup and standby, RENDER-S per hour Stopped instance: Compute billing stops when the Instance is powered off; block volumes, snapshots and flexible IPs keep billing for their whole allocation
How trustworthy is Scaleway?
Its Trust Score is 85/100 (v0.1), read from its own documents. Strong on company & track record, infrastructure control, pricing & billing transparency. Weaker on security & compliance. The score measures transparency and published guarantees, not customer satisfaction; every criterion and its source is listed above.
Where are Scaleway's data centres?
3 named regions in 2 countries: France, Poland.
How do you pay Scaleway, and are there credits?
Payment by card. Free credits: Generative APIs free tier: 1 million tokens and 60 minutes of audio transcription; no GPU Instance credit published. Identity check: ID required.