Render vs Scaleway

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

Feature	Render	Scaleway
Starting price	$0.25/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	Developers Startups Full-stack web apps APIs Small teams replacing Heroku	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	SSD	SSD
Regions	4	3
Managed Kubernetes	No	Yes
Support channels	Ticket, Docs, Community forum, Priority support on Pro/Scale/Enterprise	Ticket, Docs, Community Slack, Status page
Compliance	SOC 2	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (French sovereign cloud qualification, select regions), HDS (health data hosting, France)
Hidden costs to watch for	Persistent disk storage billed separately at $0.25/GB/month Bandwidth overage billed per-GB beyond workspace plan allowance (best-available figure ~$0.15/GB, exact current rate not printed on fetched docs page) Additional custom domains beyond plan allowance billed at $0.25/month each Postgres storage overage billed at roughly $0.30/GB/month beyond included storage Instances billed by the second while running, so scale-to-zero / suspended services still show partial-month charges for the time they were up	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