Scaleway vs PowerGPU at a glance
Scaleway
European GPU cloud: H100 SXM, L40S, L4 by the hour, free egress, Paris/Amsterdam/Warsaw
PowerGPU
Fixed prices at market median × 0.70, crypto only, verified datacenters
| Scaleway | PowerGPU | |
|---|---|---|
| Billing | Per hour, no minimum | Per second, no minimum, price locked at deploy |
| Payment | Card | Crypto only — USDT (TRC-20/ERC-20), BTC, XMR, LTC, ETH, TRX, SOL |
| Identity | Card and account verification | Email + password. No KYC, no card, no stored IP addresses |
| Free credit | Occasional promotional credits for new accounts (varies) | None — every hour is ≥30% under the market median instead |
| Cheaper tier | Reserved pricing on some instance families via console; none published specifically for GPU instances | Interruptible flat −50% (no auction) · reserved −35% (3+ months) |
| Regions | 3 — Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw | 32 regions on 5 continents, verified datacenters only |
| Minimums | None (1× to 8× GPU configurations) | None — 1× to 8× GPUs at the same per-GPU price |
| Storage | Block storage about $0.101/GB/month (€0.087, converted) | $0.08/GB/month NVMe, volumes survive instances |
| Egress | Free — no published egress fee | $0.01/GB in and out, every region |
| Access | VMs, Kubernetes (Kapsule), Scaleway CLI/API, Terraform provider | Containers or full KVM VMs, SSH, Jupyter, REST API, CLI, Python SDK |
Scaleway column: as published on scaleway.com on 2026-09-04. Details change — verify before you decide.
Scaleway vs PowerGPU prices, GPU by GPU
Public on-demand list prices per GPU-hour on Scaleway's pricing page (2026-09-04) against PowerGPU's fixed rates today — every PowerGPU price is the public marketplace median × 0.70, rounded down, re-checked weekly.
| GPU | Scaleway list | PowerGPU on-demand | PowerGPU interruptible | Difference |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| H100 SXM H100-1-80G, 1× GPU 80 GB, Paris/Warsaw · €2.73/hr → USD @1.1627 (2026-09-04) | $3.17 | $1.428 | $0.714 | −55% on PowerGPU |
| L40S L40S-1-48G, 1× GPU 48 GB, Paris · €1.47/hr → USD @1.1627 (2026-09-04) | $1.71 | $0.514 | $0.257 | −70% on PowerGPU |
| L4 L4-1-24G, 1× GPU 24 GB · €0.79/hr → USD @1.1627 (2026-09-04) | $0.92 | $0.225 | $0.112 | −76% on PowerGPU |
Configurations differ (node sizes, tiers, regions); the note beside each card says which Scaleway price is quoted. Negative differences mean Scaleway is cheaper on that card.
When to stay with Scaleway
- EU-only data residency (Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw) with no non-EU region is itself the requirement.
- Free egress matters more than the per-GPU rate for a workload that ships large result sets constantly.
- RENDER-S instances or another Scaleway-specific product are already load-bearing in your pipeline.
Why teams switch to PowerGPU
- Price: Scaleway's H100 SXM starts at $3.17/hr (€2.73) and the L40S at $1.71/hr (€1.47); PowerGPU fixes both at the public market median × 0.70.
- 32 regions on five continents instead of three EU cities — useful the moment latency to users outside Europe matters.
- Consumer cards (RTX 5090, 4090, 3090) for diffusion and quantized LLM work, which Scaleway does not sell.
- Crypto payments with no KYC, and a flat −50% interruptible tier where Scaleway has none for GPU instances.
Switching from Scaleway: what maps to what
| On Scaleway | On PowerGPU |
|---|---|
| H100-*/L40S-*/L4-* instance | Instance (container or full KVM VM) |
| Block storage volume | Volume, $0.08/GB/month |
| RENDER-S instance | Nearest equivalent consumer/workstation card at a fraction of the price |
| Scaleway CLI / API / Terraform | powergpu CLI / REST API |
pip install powergpu
export POWERGPU_API_KEY=pg_live_… # console → API keys
powergpu launch --gpu h100-sxm --template pytorch --disk 100 --volume data:/data
# ✓ instance i-52ab77c1 running (24.1s) · $1.428/hr · per second
powergpu stop i-52ab77c1 # billing ends this secondData moves the boring way: rsync or rclone from your Scaleway machine to a PowerGPU volume, which then mounts on every future instance in seconds. Templates for PyTorch, vLLM, ComfyUI and Ollama are official images; anything else runs from its OCI reference.
A real month, costed
| Scenario | Scaleway | PowerGPU |
|---|---|---|
| 1× H100 SXM, 730 hours on-demand | $2,314 | $1,042 |
| 1× H100 SXM, 8 h/day × 20 days | $507 | $228 |
| Same 160 hours, PowerGPU interruptible | — | $114 |
| 500 GB of storage, one month | Block storage about $0.101/GB/month (€0.087, converted) | $40 |
Run your own schedule through the cost calculator — it adds storage and bandwidth and compares against the marketplace median.
Scaleway GPU alternative: FAQ
Is PowerGPU cheaper than Scaleway?
Yes on every overlapping card: Scaleway lists the H100 SXM from €2.73/hr ($3.17) and the L40S from €1.47/hr ($1.71), checked 2026-09-04; PowerGPU fixes both at the public market median × 0.70. Scaleway's free egress narrows the gap for bandwidth-heavy jobs but does not close it on compute.
Does PowerGPU have EU regions like Scaleway?
Yes — ten European regions including Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw, all Tier-III facilities, alongside the Americas, Asia-Pacific and other regions Scaleway does not offer.
Is Scaleway's free egress better than PowerGPU's flat rate?
For very large, repeated transfers, Scaleway's zero egress fee is cheaper in isolation. PowerGPU charges $0.01/GB, which most GPU workloads — weights, checkpoints, generated media — do not run up significantly against.
Try the switch for the price of a coffee
Top up $40 in USDT or Monero, deploy the same image you run on Scaleway, and benchmark it. No card, no KYC, per-second billing — stop it the minute you are done.
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