Scaleway alternative: VRAMfarm compared
Scaleway: French public cloud with GPU instances in Paris and Warsaw. VRAMfarm is per-minute GPU rental from a prepaid euro balance, with 20 NVIDIA models and ready-made AI apps. Below is a side-by-side view, including where Scaleway is the better choice.
Facts about Scaleway from its public pages, checked 11 November 2026. Prices and terms change: check at the source.
| Scaleway | VRAMfarm | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | French public cloud with GPU instances in Paris and Warsaw | GPU rental with ready-made AI apps |
| Billing | Hourly; each run between power-on and power-off billed for at least 60 minutes; monthly invoice, no commitment | Per minute, minimum 15 minutes per launch |
| Currency | EUR | EUR |
| Payment | Postpaid monthly: Visa, Mastercard, CB, Amex, UnionPay, or SEPA mandate after adding a card; no prepaid/virtual cards | Prepaid balance from €10: card (incl. Apple Pay, Google Pay) or SEPA |
| GPUs in Europe | Yes, EU only: France (Paris PAR-1, PAR-2) and Poland (Warsaw WAW-2); models differ by zone | Some machines; the country of each one is shown before launch |
| GPU range | L4 24 GB, L40S 48 GB, H100 80 GB (PCIe and SXM, up to 8x), B300 288 GB (8x); older P100 render instance | 20 models, RTX 3060 12 GB to B200 192 GB |
| Ready-made apps | GPU OS images with NVIDIA drivers and Scaleway AI Docker images (PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, RAPIDS with JupyterLab) | ComfyUI with Flux and Wan video, private chat, text to speech; Jupyter, SSH, vLLM, Ollama, own Docker image |
| Data after stop | Powered-off instance is not billed; block volumes and IPv4 keep billing hourly until deleted | Disk wiped on stop; saved folder €0.03 per GB a month |
| 24 GB card, per hour | about €0.79/h (L4 24 GB) | from €0.30 (RTX 3090) |
| 80 GB card, per hour | about €2.87/h (H100 PCIe 80 GB); H100 SXM about €3.31 per GPU-hour | from €1.46 (A100), €3.90 (H100) |
When Scaleway is the better choice
- Prices in EUR, data centres in France and Poland
- Can power off and keep the disk without paying for the GPU
- Ready AI images with JupyterLab
Worth knowing about Scaleway
- Hourly billing with a 60-minute minimum per run
- Postpaid card account; prepaid and virtual cards refused
- L40S/H100 not in every zone (e.g. only PAR-2 among Paris zones)
What VRAMfarm does differently
- Billing per minute from a balance in euros, no subscription
- Ready-made apps that open in the browser with the models already downloaded
- Consumer and data-centre cards in one list, from 12 to 192 GB
- The country, driver and CUDA version of each machine shown before launch
What VRAMfarm does not have yet
- VAT invoices and a downloadable DPA (the company registration is in progress)
- Not every machine is in the EU
- No dedicated public IP: SSH and apps go through our address
Frequently asked questions
What is the main difference between Scaleway and VRAMfarm?
Scaleway: Hourly; each run between power-on and power-off billed for at least 60 minutes; monthly invoice, no commitment, EUR. VRAMfarm bills per minute from a prepaid euro balance and adds ready-made apps for images, video, chat and speech.
Is VRAMfarm cheaper than Scaleway?
It depends on the card and how long you run it. Compare the hourly price for the card you need, then your typical session length: with per-minute billing short sessions cost less than with hourly rounding.
How do I move from Scaleway to VRAMfarm?
Upload your models and data to /workspace on a new server over SSH, or start from your own Docker image. Save the folder on stop and it is there for the next session.
Try it on your own task
Top up from €10 and run the same job you run on Scaleway; compare time and cost.