Scaleway vs Vultr

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

Feature	Scaleway	Vultr
Starting price	$0.01/mo	$0.01/mo
Best for	European data residency / GDPR-sensitive workloads Startups and SMBs GPU/AI workloads Kubernetes	Developers GPU/AI workloads Price-sensitive scaling
Stated uptime SLA	99.9% to 99.99% depending on product tier	100% network uptime SLA
Storage	SSD	NVME
Regions	3	32
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)	SOC 2, GDPR
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	Bandwidth overage rate varies by data center location Windows license cost not included in base price
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18