Scaleway review

Facts from Scaleway’s own pricing and docs pages, September 2026 — 44 read from a quoted sentence on the page we archived.

Summary

Scaleway rents GPUs from ≈$0.90 per GPU-hour on demand, bills per hour, and asks no minimum commitment. Scaleway does not publish an egress rate or a refund policy.

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From

≈$0.90/GPU-hr

Billing

Per hour, pay as you go

Minimum commitment

None

Egress

not stated

Uptime SLA

99.5% monthly availability for GPU Instances

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On-demand pricing

NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB

×4, on demand · H100-SXM

≈$3.64/hr

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NVIDIA L40S 48GB

×1, on demand · L40S

≈$1.68/hr

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NVIDIA B300 SXM6 288GB

×8, on demand · B300-SXM

≈$8.56/hr

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NVIDIA L4 24GBLowest

×1, on demand · L4

≈$0.90/hr

Deploy

NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB

×1, on demand · H100-PCIe

≈$3.27/hr

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What’s good

Lowest published on-demand rate is ≈$0.90/GPU-hr (NVIDIA L4 24GB), with no minimum commitment

Publishes a 99.5% monthly availability for GPU Instances uptime commitment, with service credits when it is missed

Commitment discounts: savings plans

Spend controls: spend estimation and budget tracking in the console

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Plans

	On-demand GPU Instances	Savings plans
From	€0.79/hr (L4, 1 GPU) Scaleway · On-demand GPU Instances Every on-demand rate we hold for Scaleway, per GPU per hour, cheapest first. NVIDIA L4 24GB ×1, on-demand · L4 ≈$0.90/hr Deploy NVIDIA L40S 48GB ×1, on-demand · L40S ≈$1.68/hr Deploy NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB ×1, on-demand · H100-PCIe ≈$3.27/hr Deploy NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB ×4, on-demand · H100-SXM ≈$3.64/hr Deploy NVIDIA B300 SXM6 288GB ×8, on-demand · B300-SXM ≈$8.56/hr Deploy Prices as last read from Scaleway’s own pages. Open a card for every provider renting it.	A stated discount off on-demand
Minimum term	None — power off or delete at any time	A commitment term, category-wide rather than per instance
Billing	Per hour, pay as you go	Commitment-based discount off the hourly rate
Uptime SLA	99.5% monthly availability for GPU Instances	99.5% monthly availability for GPU Instances
Tenancy	VMs from 1 to 8 GPUs	Same instances under a commitment
Provisioning	Self-serve from the console	Self-serve in the console

Details

Billing & access

How you pay

Pay as you go — you pay for what you use

Currency

EUR, before tax

Commitment discounts

Savings plans, switchable within a category

Billing dispute window

Compensation must be requested within 30 days of the month

Provisioning guarantee

GPU ranges are zone-limited; some are PAR-2 only

What you get

GPUs listed

L4, L40S, H100 PCIe, H100-SXM, B300-SXM

Regions

Paris (France), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Warsaw (Poland)

Node configuration

H100-1-80G is 24 vCPU / 240 GB; L4-1-24G is 8 vCPU / 48 GB

Local storage

Scratch NVMe on H100, H100-SXM and L40S instances

Persistent storage

Block Storage, billed separately and billed on while an instance is off

Public endpoints

Public IPv4 billed hourly and kept billing unless deleted

Private networking

VPC, VPC peering, InterLink and site-to-site VPN

Access methods

Console, API

Model deployment

Managed Inference and Generative APIs

Managed inference

Managed Inference and Generative APIs, each with an SLA

Managed Kubernetes

Kubernetes with a dedicated control plane

Serverless

Serverless Containers, Functions and Jobs

Kubernetes integration

Managed Kubernetes with a dedicated control plane

FAQ

How much does Scaleway cost?

As of September 2026, the lowest published on-demand rate is ≈$0.90 per GPU-hour for the NVIDIA L4 24GB. Scaleway publishes an on-demand rate for 5 GPU models. Billing is per hour.

Does Scaleway have an uptime SLA?

Scaleway states 99.5% monthly availability for GPU Instances. Service credits: compensation as a percentage of the month's invoice; all-inclusive remedy.

Is there a minimum commitment on Scaleway?

No. Scaleway states none.

Does Scaleway charge for egress?

Scaleway does not publish an egress rate, so the cost of moving data out is not something a reader can check before signing up.

Can I sign up to Scaleway without approval?

Where are Scaleway's data centres?

Scaleway lists paris (France), Amsterdam (Netherlands), Warsaw (Poland).

Who do you contract with at Scaleway?

The contracting entity is Scaleway SAS.

Reviewed September 2026, from Scaleway’s own site. 44 facts, each quoted from the page it was read on.