Scaleway vs UpCloud

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

Feature	Scaleway	UpCloud
Starting price	$0.01/mo	$3.5/mo
Best for	European data residency / GDPR-sensitive workloads Startups and SMBs GPU/AI workloads Kubernetes	Performance-sensitive VPS workloads European data residency Simple predictable billing
Stated uptime SLA	99.9% to 99.99% depending on product tier	99.999%
Storage	SSD	NVME
Regions	3	13
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	Yes
Support channels	Ticket, Docs, Community Slack, Status page	Ticket, Docs, Community
Compliance	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (French sovereign cloud qualification, select regions), HDS (health data hosting, France)	GDPR, ISO 27001
Hidden costs to watch for	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	Simple Backups add-on billed as a percentage surcharge on server price (Day +10%, Week +20%, Month +40%, Year +60%) Data transfer beyond the Fair Transfer Policy allowance can incur overage charges despite marketing free egress Premium plans require MaxIOPS block storage which is priced/allocated differently than Starter plan Standard SSD
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18