Scaleway vs Vast.ai
General-purpose cloud against peer marketplace, 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.
Vast.ai is cheaper on 2 of the 3 cards both of them rent, by a median of 45%. Scaleway is cheaper on the other 1.
- 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
- How they sell
- Peer marketplace A stranger whose machine the platform vets to some degree. Reliability, bandwidth and how long the machine stays online vary by host, not just by price.
- GPU models
- 20 52 offers
- Registered in
- 🇺🇸 United States
These are not the same product. A general-purpose cloud and a peer marketplace differ in who your counterparty is, which is why the rates below can be far apart without either being wrong. The prices are comparable; what stands behind them is not.
The 3 cards both of them rent, cheapest published per-GPU on-demand rate each. Dearest first.
| GPU | Scaleway | Vast.ai | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA B300 SXM6 288GB | ≈$8.53/hr | $9.88/hr | 14% cheaper on Scaleway |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | ≈$3.63/hr | $2.27/hr | 38% cheaper on Vast.ai |
| NVIDIA L40S 48GB | ≈$1.67/hr | $0.80/hr | 52% cheaper on Vast.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.
| Scaleway | Vast.ai | |
|---|---|---|
| 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. | Per hour, pay as you go | Per second |
| Minimum commitment | None | $5 minimum to start |
| Payment model | Pay as you go — you pay for what you use | Prepaid credits; optional auto top-up |
| Egress | not stated | Priced per byte by each host |
| Uptime SLA | 99.5% monthly availability for GPU Instances | not stated |
| Regions | Paris (France), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Warsaw (Poland) | 40+ data centres worldwide |
Neither site tells you whether your data trains their models 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 L4 24GB≈$0.90/hr
- NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB≈$3.26/hr
- NVIDIA RTX A4000 16GB$0.07/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 3090 24GB$0.12/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 4070 12GB$0.14/hr
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4000 Blackwell 24GB$0.20/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 5070 Ti 16GB$0.20/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB$0.27/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 4090 24GB$0.44/hr
- NVIDIA L40 48GB$0.45/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 5090 32GB$0.47/hr
- NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB$0.48/hr
- NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB$0.57/hr
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48GB$0.67/hr
Is Scaleway cheaper than Vast.ai?
Vast.ai is cheaper on 2 of the 3 cards both of them rent, by a median of 45%. Scaleway is cheaper on the other 1.
Which GPUs do Scaleway and Vast.ai 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 Scaleway and at Vast.ai?
Of the cards both rent, Scaleway starts at $1.67 per GPU-hour and Vast.ai at $0.80.
Are Scaleway and Vast.ai the same kind of provider?
No. Scaleway is a general-purpose cloud — a hosting company where GPUs sit beside the VPS products, on the same account and billing. Vast.ai is a peer marketplace — a stranger whose machine the platform vets to some degree. Reliability, bandwidth and how long the machine stays online vary by host, not just by price. The rates are comparable; what stands behind them is not.