Scaleway vs Vultr
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Scaleway and Vultr.
Quick Verdict
4.0/5
Scaleway
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4.0/5
Vultr
0 reviews
Both Scaleway and Vultr are equally rated at 4.0/5. 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. Vultr is a cloud platform offering VPS, bare metal servers, and Kubernetes hosting across 32 data centers worldwide. Built for developers and businesses needing scalable, reliable compute resources with transparent billing.
Scaleway European cloud infrastructure with competitive pricing and transparent billing | Vultr High-performance cloud infrastructure with global data centers and competitive pricing | |
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| Overview | ||
| Rating | 4.0 (0 reviews) | 4.0 (0 reviews) |
| Pricing model | usage-based | paid |
| Starting price | From $0.1/mo✓ | From $2.5/mo |
| Best for | European companies needing data sovereignty and a full cloud ecosystem — VMs, Kubernetes, storage, GPUs — under one EU contract | Teams needing low-latency compute across multiple continents, API-first fleets, and self-serve GPU or bare metal with predictable billing |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | 1 vCPU | 1 vCPU |
| RAM | 1 GB | 1 GB |
| Storage | — | 10 GB |
| Bandwidth | — | 1 TB/mo |
| SLA uptime | 99.9% | 100%✓ |
| Data-center count | 10 | 34✓ |
| €/vCPU/mo | €0.10✓ | €2.50 |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €0.10✓ | €2.50 |
| Performance | ||
| CPU score (sysbench) | — | 4,100 |
| Disk read (fio) | — | 1,800 MB/s |
| Disk IOPS (4K random) | — | 38,000 |
| Network out | — | 1 Gbps |
| Latency (TTFB) | — | 24 ms |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ||
| DDoS protection | ||
| Automated backups | ||
| Snapshots | ✓ | |
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ✓ | |
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | FranceNetherlandsPolandItaly | 34 regions across North/South America, Europe, Asia, Australia, Africa (see locations page) |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | free tierhourly billingipv6ddos protectionsnapshotsmanaged optionbare metalgpu availables3 compatibleeu datacentergdpr compliantterraform providerkubernetes supportapi access | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectionbackups includedsnapshotsbare metalgpu availables3 compatibleeu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenterterraform providerapi accesswindows available |
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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
Vultr
Pros
- + Truly global: 34 regions on six continents from one console, one API, one price list - with per-region test IPs published
- + Fully published hourly and monthly pricing from $2.50/mo, mature REST API and Terraform provider
- + 100% network and host-node uptime SLA with credits; standardized platform behavior across every region
- + Broad self-serve catalog: NVMe optimized VMs, NVIDIA/AMD GPUs, bare metal, managed databases/Kafka, S3-compatible object storage, VKE
Cons
- - Price-performance trails European leaders: our measured HF 2GB (Amsterdam) had the slowest NVMe storage of six tested providers at a mid-range price
- - Backups cost 20% of instance price, snapshots bill per GB, Windows and extra egress are add-ons
- - No refunds in the terms of service; support is ticket-only for self-serve customers
- - Overlapping instance families (Cloud Compute, VX1, Optimized) make it easy to pick a stale SKU; region count differs across Vultr's own pages (32/33/34)
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