Kamatera vs Scaleway

Kamatera is strongest for custom VM sizing. Scaleway is strongest for european data residency / GDPR-sensitive workloads. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Kamatera	Scaleway
Starting price	$0.05/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	Custom VM sizing Global data center selection Windows Server hosting Dev/test environments	European data residency / GDPR-sensitive workloads Startups and SMBs GPU/AI workloads Kubernetes
Stated uptime SLA	99.95%	99.9% to 99.99% depending on product tier
Storage	NVME	SSD
Regions	20	3
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	Yes
Support channels	Ticket, Phone, Docs, Pro/Premium Managed Services (paid)	Ticket, Docs, Community Slack, Status page
Compliance	GDPR	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (French sovereign cloud qualification, select regions), HDS (health data hosting, France)
Hidden costs to watch for	Bandwidth overage billed at $0.01/GB past the pooled monthly allowance (5 TB US/Canada/Europe, 1 TB Asia-Pacific) Windows Server / SQL Server / Exchange / RDS licensing adds an undisclosed per-server surcharge only shown at calculator checkout Type T (Burstable) CPU incurs a $0.041/hour/CPU overage charge once average CPU usage exceeds 10% Powered-off (but not terminated) servers may continue to accrue charges Pro Managed Services add $50/server/month; Premium Managed Services add $150/server/month	Public internet egress from Object Storage: 75 GB free per month, then EUR 0.01/GB Windows Server licensing surcharge on POP2-*-WIN instance variants (roughly 2.5x the equivalent Linux instance price) Dedicated Kubernetes control plane is a paid add-on (~EUR 80/month) above the free mutualized control plane if higher SLA/isolation is needed Snapshot storage for Block Storage billed separately per GB-hour Glacier (cold) Object Storage restoration fee: EUR 0.009/GB
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18