Scaleway Review
Scaleway was founded as a VPS provider in 2015.
It is headquartered in France.
It offers VPS hosting products.
- France
- Netherlands
- Poland
Quick Links
| Scaleway plans specs and prices | Plans |
| Scaleway instance types | Instance Types |
| How fast are Scaleway servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
| List of Scaleway trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in Scaleway trials | CPUs |
| Performance variations of Scaleway VPS over the long term | Consistency |
| List of Scaleway yabs.sh results | Yabs |
Scaleway VPS Features
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
| Feature | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly Billing | Yes | |
| DDOS Protection | Yes |
Basic DDoS protection on online.net. |
| Backups | Yes |
Snapshots of disk volumes can be made. |
| Control Panel | Builtin | |
| SSH Keys Setup | Yes | |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 3 | |
| Number of Datacenter Continents | 1 | |
| Monitoring Charts | No | |
| Admin REST API | Yes | |
| Upgrade VPS from admin console | No | |
| Mobile Friendly UI | No | |
| Reverse DNS | Yes | |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit Cards | |
| Hidden CPU Model | No | |
| Affiliate Program | No | |
| Firewall | No | |
| Shelving | Yes |
Your instance will not be billed if it is not in use, however your storage volumes and reserved IPs will be billed €0.002/hour each. |
Pros and Cons
Strengths
- Very large catalog of cloud features.
- Fast and modern UI.
Weaknesses
- Mostly on the slow and expensive side.
Scaleway Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, Scaleway also sells the services marked green in the following table:
| Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer |
| Floating IP addresses | Team Management | Managed databases | Serverless |
| DDoS protection | Kubernetes | GPU instances | Private network |
VPS Instance Provisioning Time
For each Scaleway VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server from the moment it was ordered to the moment it accepted SSH connections.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
| Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| 32s | 30s | 35s | 2 |
Control Panel Screenshots
Cloud Storage Prices
For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage Prices page.
| Storage Type | Price / GB / month | Description | Restriction |
|---|---|---|---|
| Object | 0.015€ | Scaleway object storage | |
| Block | 0.060€ |
SSD based. 3x replicated.
Scaleway block storage |
Network Bandwidth Prices
These are the network bandwidth prices charged by Scaleway for outbound transfers from VPS to the internet.
For a comparison of bandwidth prices from all providers, go to the Network Bandwitdh Prices page.
| Description | Price / GB |
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Pricing model: Unlimited
(the provider does not charge for bandwidth and allows unlimited transfer with possible throttling.)
Port speed: 350 Mbps
Scaleway networking
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This provider does not charge for bandwidth. |
Scaleway Instance Types and Plans
Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions unless noted otherwise. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.
| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Monthly Price |
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| Family: General purpose Instance Type: PRO2 |
Latest generation of General Purpose Instances designed for high-performance workloads in production environments. Build on the world’s best, high-end 3rd Generation AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series processors with the best price/performance ratio.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.scaleway.com/en/virtual-instances/pro2/
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| Family: General purpose Instance Type: GP1 |
Production-grade cloud instances designed for scalable infrastructure. Launch high-end websites and applications with premium CPUs and local NVMe SSDs. Designed with high-end AMD EPYC 7000™ series vCPUs to host all your production environments.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.scaleway.com/en/virtual-instances/general-purpose/
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| GP1-XS | 4 | 16.0GB | 150GB | 82.27€ / month ($90.50 / month) |
| Family: Development Instance Type: DEV1 |
The first generation of Dev&Test Instances. Designed as a cost-optimal option to run less demanding, non-critical tasks. No SLAs.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.scaleway.com/en/virtual-instances/development/
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| DEV1-S | 2 | 2.0GB | 20GB | 11.07€ / month ($12.18 / month) |
| DEV1-M | 3 | 4.0GB | 40GB | 20.82€ / month ($22.90 / month) |
| DEV1-L | 4 | 8.0GB | 80GB | 40.47€ / month ($44.52 / month) |
| Family: Development Instance Type: PLAY2 |
The latest generation of Dev&Test Instances, providing sandbox environments and good performance for development and testing purposes. Build on the world’s best, high-end 3rd Generation AMD EPYC™ 7003 Series processors. No SLAs.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.scaleway.com/en/virtual-instances/play2/
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| PLAY2-NANO | 2 | 4.0GB | 40GB | 26.08€ / month ($28.69 / month) |
| Instance Type: Other |
No description
Provider page for instance type:
/hosters/scaleway
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| PLAY2-PICO | 1 | 2.0GB | 20GB | 14.86€ / month ($16.35 / month) |