GPU.ai vs Scaleway
A GPU specialist against a European general cloud. One rents a wide catalog of cards by the hour; the other sells GPU instances inside a full cloud with EU data residency.
GPU.ai
- Cheapest on-demand
- $0.20/GPU-hr NVIDIA RTX 3090 24GB
- GPU models
- 22 32 offers
- How they sell
- GPU specialist
- Registered in
- 🇦🇪 United Arab Emirates
Scaleway
- Cheapest on-demand
- ≈$0.90/GPU-hr NVIDIA L4 24GB
- GPU models
- 5 19 offers
- How they sell
- General-purpose cloud
- Registered in
- 🇫🇷 France
The same GPUs, both prices
Cards both of them rent, cheapest published per-GPU on-demand rate each. Dearest first.
| GPU | GPU.ai | Scaleway | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $3.49/hr | ≈$3.64/hr | 4% cheaper on GPU.ai |
| NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB | $1.98/hr | ≈$3.27/hr | 39% cheaper on GPU.ai |
| NVIDIA L40S 48GB | $0.79/hr | ≈$1.68/hr | 53% cheaper on GPU.ai |
| NVIDIA L4 24GB | $0.33/hr | ≈$0.90/hr | 63% cheaper on GPU.ai |
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.
What their own pages say
| GPU.ai | Scaleway | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing | Per second | Per hour, pay as you go |
| Minimum commitment | $5 minimum deposit, no term | None |
| Uptime SLA | not stated | 99.5% monthly availability for GPU Instances |
| Payment | Prepaid credit balance with burn rate and runway | Pay as you go — you pay for what you use |
| Regions | 8 regions: US East/Central/West, Canada, EU West, EU East, India South, Asia-Pacific | Paris (France), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Warsaw (Poland) |
Only on one side
GPU.ai only
- NVIDIA RTX 3090 24GB$0.20/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 3080 10GB$0.21/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 2000 Ada 16GB$0.24/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 4080 16GB$0.29/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 4090 24GB$0.38/hr
- NVIDIA RTX A6000 48GB$0.40/hr
- NVIDIA A40 48GB$0.49/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB$0.50/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB$0.65/hr
- NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40GB$0.67/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 5080 16GB$0.67/hr
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell 32GB$0.72/hr
- NVIDIA L40 48GB$0.78/hr
- NVIDIA A100 80GB$0.94/hr
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell 96GB$1.99/hr
- NVIDIA H200 NVL 141GB$3.29/hr
- NVIDIA H100 NVL 94GB$3.86/hr
- NVIDIA H200 SXM5 141GB$3.99/hr
Scaleway only
- NVIDIA B300 SXM6 288GB≈$8.56/hr