Scaleway vs WP Engine

Scaleway is strongest for european data residency / GDPR-sensitive workloads. WP Engine is strongest for WordPress-only sites. Here's how they stack up on price, uptime, and support.

Feature	Scaleway	WP Engine
Starting price	$0.01/mo	$30/mo
Best for	European data residency / GDPR-sensitive workloads Startups and SMBs GPU/AI workloads Kubernetes	WordPress-only sites Agencies managing multiple WP sites Enterprise WordPress High-traffic WordPress blogs/publishers
Stated uptime SLA	99.9% to 99.99% depending on product tier	99.99%
Storage	SSD	SSD
Regions	3	1
Managed Kubernetes	Yes	No
Support channels	Ticket, Docs, Community Slack, Status page	Chat, Phone (Professional plan and above), Docs, Dedicated support team (Enterprise)
Compliance	GDPR, ISO 27001, SecNumCloud (French sovereign cloud qualification, select regions), HDS (health data hosting, France)	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	Visit overages billed at $2 per 1,000 visits beyond plan allowance Extra sites beyond plan limit billed around $20/mo per additional site on Startup Annual-billed prices shown on the marketing site often include a first-year-only promotional discount; renewal/steady-state annual rate can be higher than the advertised starting price Month-to-month billing (no annual commitment) costs roughly 17-20% more per month than annual billing Email hosting is NOT included; third-party estimates put it around $6-7 per mailbox per month Smart Plugin Manager and NitroPack optimization add-ons priced/bundled separately on Essential plans (included standard on Core) Numeric 99.99% uptime SLA is marketed prominently for Core/Enterprise tiers; not clearly guaranteed with a published SLA credit policy on Essential (Startup/Professional/Growth/Scale) plans
Last reviewed	2026-07-18	2026-07-18