Scaleway Pricing in May 2026

Scaleway's standard pricing follows transparent European cloud-utility model: Instances start at €0.0084/hour (~€6/month for cheapest VM), Object Storage at €0.0145/GB/month, GPU instances at €0.45-€2.50/hour depending on chip. The pricing is consistently 20-30% below AWS and GCP for equivalent compute, with no egress fees within Scaleway's network — a meaningful difference for bandwidth-heavy applications.

The €25,000 startup credit program is the largest European cloud credit available and effectively funds 12-24 months of production infrastructure for most startups. Eligibility focuses on European-based startups, which aligns with Scaleway's sovereignty positioning — the credit program is harder to claim for US-headquartered companies. The credits cover all Scaleway services including GPU instances (relevant for AI workloads), Kubernetes, dedicated servers, and managed databases. The practical value depends on whether Scaleway's product catalog covers your needs: for compute, storage, Kubernetes, and GPUs, Scaleway is fully competitive; for exotic managed services (BigQuery-class analytics, Vertex AI-class ML), you'll still need AWS or GCP for adjacent workloads. Many European startups split their stack: Scaleway for sovereignty-sensitive customer data and primary compute, AWS or GCP for analytics and ML where Scaleway lacks managed equivalents. The €25K credit makes Scaleway's first year essentially free for most cloud workloads.