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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.

PlanServerTrafficPlan priceWith IPv4The bill
STARDUST1-SDynamic local SSD, size billed separately1 vCPU, 1 GBShared CPUNot stated€0.43Billed hourly, excl. VAT€4.08

plan €0.43IPv4 €3.65

DEV1-SAMD EPYC 7281 or equivalent2 vCPU, 2 GBShared CPUNot stated€6.55Billed hourly, excl. VAT€10.20

plan €6.55IPv4 €3.65

PLAY2-PICOBlock storage only1 vCPU, 2 GBShared CPUNot stated€10.42Billed hourly, excl. VAT€14.07

plan €10.42IPv4 €3.65

DEV1-M3 vCPU, 4 GBShared CPUNot 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.

Paris, FranceAmsterdam, NetherlandsWarsaw, PolandMilan, Italy

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.

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

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