Gcore vs Scaleway
Two general-purpose cloud providers, priced against each other on the 3 GPUs both of them rent. Published per-GPU on-demand rates as each provider last stated them, with what their own pages say about billing, commitment and egress beside the numbers.
Gcore is cheaper on 3 of the 3 cards both of them rent, by a median of 27%.
- How they sell
- General-purpose cloud A hosting company where GPUs sit beside the VPS products, on the same account and billing.
- GPU models
- 6 9 offers
- Registered in
- 🇱🇺 Luxembourg
- How they sell
- General-purpose cloud A hosting company where GPUs sit beside the VPS products, on the same account and billing.
- GPU models
- 5 19 offers
- Registered in
- 🇫🇷 France
The 3 cards both of them rent, cheapest published per-GPU on-demand rate each. Dearest first.
| GPU | Gcore | Scaleway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA B300 SXM6 288GB | ≈$6.83/hr | ≈$8.53/hr | 20% cheaper on Gcore |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | ≈$2.58/hr | ≈$3.63/hr | 29% cheaper on Gcore |
| NVIDIA L40S 48GB | ≈$1.23/hr | ≈$1.67/hr | 27% cheaper on Gcore |
Per GPU per hour, on-demand list prices as each provider last published them. Rates exclude tax and vary by region; a cheaper rate is not the same machine, the same network or the same support.
| Gcore | Scaleway | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing granularityOn short jobs this outweighs the rate: an hour minimum on a 90-second run costs more than a 30% dearer per-second rate. | Hourly (GPU); per minute (inference) | Per hour, pay as you go |
| Minimum commitment | None on pay-as-you-go; subscription terms billed in full | None |
| Payment model | Postpaid invoice by default; prepaid credits for some products; subscriptions | Pay as you go — you pay for what you use |
| Free credits | Free trial periods offered; startup program | not stated |
| Egress | Free | not stated |
| Uptime SLA | not stated | 99.5% monthly availability for GPU Instances |
| Regions | 50+ cloud locations; 33 named on the cloud price list | Paris (France), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Warsaw (Poland) |
Neither site tells you whether your data trains their models, how fast support answers or whether a commitment auto-renews. We looked on both and record the absence rather than filling it in — if you need any of it, ask before you commit.
- NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB≈$1.45/hr
- NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141GB≈$3.11/hr
- NVIDIA L4 24GB≈$0.90/hr
- NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB≈$3.26/hr
Is Gcore cheaper than Scaleway?
Gcore is cheaper on 3 of the 3 cards both of them rent, by a median of 27%.
Which GPUs do Gcore and Scaleway both rent?
NVIDIA B300 SXM6 288GB, NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB, NVIDIA L40S 48GB — 3 in total, on published per-GPU on-demand rates.
What is the cheapest GPU at Gcore and at Scaleway?
Of the cards both rent, Gcore starts at $1.23 per GPU-hour and Scaleway at $1.67.