Cherry Servers vs Scaleway
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Cherry Servers and Scaleway.
Quick Verdict
4.0/5
Cherry Servers
0 reviews
4.0/5
Scaleway
0 reviews
Both Cherry Servers and Scaleway are equally rated at 4.0/5. Cherry Servers offers dedicated bare metal and cloud VPS from Vilnius, Lithuania and Amsterdam, Netherlands. API-driven infrastructure with hourly billing and GDPR-compliant EU hosting. Scaleway provides bare-metal servers, VPS, and managed Kubernetes in European data centers. Designed for developers and small-to-medium businesses needing reliable cloud compute without vendor lock-in.
Cherry Servers Lithuanian bare metal and cloud at EU pricing | Scaleway European cloud infrastructure with competitive pricing and transparent billing | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 4.0 (0 reviews) | 4.0 (0 reviews) |
| Pricing model | paid | usage-based |
| Starting price | From $3.51/mo | From $0.1/mo✓ |
| Best for | EU-based teams and operators who want configurable bare metal, BGP-level networking, and honest published pricing without hyperscaler overhead | European companies needing data sovereignty and a full cloud ecosystem — VMs, Kubernetes, storage, GPUs — under one EU contract |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | 1 vCPU | 1 vCPU |
| RAM | 1 GB | 1 GB |
| Storage | 20 GB | — |
| Bandwidth | 1 TB/mo | — |
| SLA uptime | 99.97%✓ | 99.9% |
| Data-center count | 7 | 10✓ |
| €/vCPU/mo | €3.51 | €0.10✓ |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €3.51 | €0.10✓ |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ✓ | |
| Snapshots | ✓ | |
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ✓ | |
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | Šiauliai LT, Amsterdam NL, Frankfurt DE, Stockholm SE, Chicago US, Singapore SG, Tokyo JP | FranceNetherlandsPolandItaly |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectioneu datacentergdpr compliantapi access | free tierhourly billingipv6ddos protectionsnapshotsmanaged optionbare metalgpu availables3 compatibleeu datacentergdpr compliantterraform providerkubernetes supportapi access |
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Cherry Servers
Pros
- + Two decades of operating history, own data center in Lithuania, ISO 27001 / SOC-attested colo sites
- + Clear published price lists: VPS from $3.51/mo, bare metal from $57.33/mo, hourly rates everywhere
- + Operator-grade networking: 10 Gbps uplinks, 100 TB+ free egress on dedicated, BGP, BYOIP, floating IPs
- + Seven locations across EU, US, and APAC, with EU jurisdiction for GDPR-sensitive work
- + Free IPv6 /64 (expandable to /56) on bare metal, standard DDoS protection included
Cons
- - Own pages publish conflicting entry prices ($3.51 vs $3.24 vs $5.83 on the same page)
- - Hourly billing on entry VPS plans costs roughly 4x the monthly rate over a full month
- - Entry Gen 2 VPS plans bundle only 1 TB transfer and have no annual discount
- - No real managed hosting tier — support is 24/7 but servers are self-managed
- - IPv6 is bare metal only; VPS/VDS get none, and regional stock is uneven
Scaleway
Pros
- + Full EU footprint (Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw, Milan) under French/EU law, outside the CLOUD Act
- + One vendor for instances, bare metal, managed Kubernetes, Object Storage, serverless and GPUs
- + Transparent per-hour pricing published to the cent, with free Kapsule control plane and unmetered instance egress
- + ISO 27001 and HDS certifications; documented SLAs with service credits per product
- + S3-compatible Object Storage with 75GB/month free and competitive per-GB rates
Cons
- - Compute costs notably more per GB RAM than Hetzner at the entry and mid tiers
- - Flexible IPv4 (about €2.90/month) and snapshot storage bill separately and quietly
- - Egress terms differ by product class and sources disagree; read the fine print before budgeting
- - SLA band varies by service (99.5% GPU to 99.99% PRO2) and credit claims take effort per user reports
- - Europe-only regions and ticket-based support without enterprise escalation
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