
Scaleway Instances
Scaleway
Scaleway, the cloud arm of the French iliad group, rents hourly-billed virtual Instances in France, the Netherlands, Poland and Italy.
- Cheapest, with IPv4
- €4.08/mo
- STARDUST1-S, 1 vCPU, 1 GB
- Public IPv4
- €3.65/month extra
- Automatic backups
- Not stated
- Billing
- Hourly
- Billed in euros
- Datacenters
- 4 in 4 countries
- Europe
- Run by
- iliad Group
- France
Entry plans and the real monthly bill
In euros, per month, as listed by Scaleway (Paris (PAR-1)). IPv4 added where it's charged separately.
Swipe the table sideways for the price and the bill.
| Plan | Server | Traffic | Plan price | With IPv4 | The bill |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| STARDUST1-SDynamic local SSD, size billed separately | 1 vCPU, 1 GBShared CPU | Not stated | €0.43Billed hourly, excl. VAT | €4.08 | plan €0.43IPv4 €3.65 |
| DEV1-SAMD EPYC 7281 or equivalent | 2 vCPU, 2 GBShared CPU | Not stated | €6.55Billed hourly, excl. VAT | €10.20 | plan €6.55IPv4 €3.65 |
| PLAY2-PICOBlock storage only | 1 vCPU, 2 GBShared CPU | Not stated | €10.42Billed hourly, excl. VAT | €14.07 | plan €10.42IPv4 €3.65 |
| DEV1-M | 3 vCPU, 4 GBShared CPU | Not stated | €14.74Billed hourly, excl. VAT | €18.39 | plan €14.74IPv4 €3.65 |
Good to know
- A public IPv4 address costs €3.65 a month on top of the plan
- Billed by the hour, so a test server costs cents
- Listed prices exclude VAT
Where Scaleway has datacenters
4 in 4 countries, as listed by Scaleway.
Europe 4
- Paris, France
- Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Warsaw, Poland
- Milan, Italy
Where it stands among 43
Each fact with every host's answer. Scaleway is outlined.
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Monthly VPS 25
Bills in
Euros
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Public IPv4 address
Charged on top
In the plan price 36
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Charged on top 5
Not stated 2
Price after the first term
Same price
Same price 28
Goes up on renewal 11
Hourly billing
Billed by the hour
Billed by the hour 19
Monthly or longer 21
Not stated 3
Dedicated CPU in entry plans
Shared CPU only
A dedicated-CPU plan 6
Shared CPU only 13
Datacenters on
One continent
One continent 10
2 or 3 continents 13
ARM servers
Offered
Add-ons and extra charges
- Public IPv4
- €3.65/month extra €0.005/hour for an Instance IPv4 on the network price page, times 730 hours; Scaleway states only the hourly rate; checked by fetch 2026-10-18
- Automatic backups
- Not stated Backups are images of snapshots, billed as snapshot storage
- Snapshots
- Not stated Billed hourly at €0.000049/GB/hour; no per-month figure stated
- Extra traffic
- Unmetered List prices include egress; no overage rate stated
How you pay
- Hourly billing
- YesYes Billed by the hour, invoiced monthly; billing pauses when powered off
- Minimum term
- None (hourly) Optional 12- or 36-month Savings Plans cut compute costs by up to 25%
- Setup fee
- Not stated Not stated
- Always-free server
- None No free Instance listed; the cheapest is paid
- New-account credit
- €100 for new Professional accounts Voucher must be redeemed within 24 hours; credit expiry not stated
- Payment methods
- Card, SEPA debit Visa, Mastercard, CB, UnionPay, Amex, SEPA; no virtual or prepaid cards
- Signup checks
- Card required with a €1 authorisation and 3-D Secure; ID check optional, needed for SEPA
- Refunds
- None stated; consumer terms give a 14-day withdrawal period Consumer terms dated 2021; no Instance money-back guarantee
What you get
- Processors
- AMD EPYC, Ampere Altra Max DEV1 and STARDUST1 on AMD EPYC 7281 or equivalent; newer plans on EPYC Turin
- ARM servers
- YesYes COP-ARM on Ampere M128-30
- IPv6 included
- YesYes Flexible IPv6 is free
What comes with it
- Block storage
- YesYes Billed hourly: €0.000130/GB/hour (5K) or €0.000177/GB/hour (15K)
- Object storage
- YesYes S3-compatible
- Private network
- YesYes Private Networks free
- Cloud firewall
- YesYes Security groups
- Load balancers
- YesYes From €0.023/hour (LB-S)
- DDoS protection included
- YesYes Native platform DDoS protection; WAF for targeted attacks is extra
- Managed databases
- PostgreSQL, MySQL, MongoDB Also an in-memory key-value store
- Managed Kubernetes
- YesYes Kapsule and Kosmos
- API
- YesYes
- Terraform provider
- YesYes Terraform/OpenTofu provider
- Custom ISO
- Not statedNot stated Not stated; the docs say you can bootstrap your own distribution
- Windows
- Windows plans with the licence in the price POP2-2C-8G-WIN is €133.07/month against €53.65/month for POP2-2C-8G
Who you're renting from
- Company
- Scaleway SAS Registered office in Paris
- Owned by
- iliad Group
- Based in
- France Paris, France
- Founded
- 1999 Founded 1999, per Scaleway
- Support
- Tickets 24/7; paid plans from €50/month add a hotline
- Certifications
- ISO 27001, HDS SecNumCloud qualification in progress