Scaleway Review
Features and Usability
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
Last updated on November 12 2018.
| Feature | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| Hourly Billing | Yes | |
| DDOS Protection | Yes | Basic DDoS protection on online.net. |
| Backups | Yes | Snapshots of disk volumes can be made. |
| Control Panel | Builtin | |
| SSH Keys Setup | Yes | |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 2 | |
| Number of Datacenter Continents | 1 | |
| Monitoring Charts | No | |
| Admin REST API | Yes | |
| Upgrade VPS from admin console | No | |
| Mobile Friendly UI | No | |
| Accepted Forms of Payment | Credit Cards | |
| Hidden CPU Model | No | |
| Affiliate Program | No |
In VPSBenchmark's opinion
| Feature | Value | Comment |
|---|---|---|
| UI Friendliness | Clean and modern. |
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| Quality of Service |
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Scaleway Extra Services
In addition to features included in the VPS plan, Scaleway also offers the following services (possibly for a fee):
| Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer | Floating IP addresses |
| Teams | Datastores | Serverless | DDoS protection | Kubernetes |
| GPU instances |
VPS Instance Provisioning Time
For each Scaleway VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
| Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
|---|---|---|---|
| 40s | 30s | 50s | 3 |
Admin UI Screenshots
Cloud Storage Prices
For a comparison of storage features and prices from all providers, please check the Cloud Storage page.
| Storage Type | Price / GB / month | Restriction | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| Object | €0.010 | 500GB minimum. |
5€ for 500GB, including 500GB of transfer.
https://www.scaleway.com/faq/object-storage/ |
| Block | €0.020 | Minimum 1 month and 50GB for this price | https://www.scaleway.com/faq/billing/#-How-much-is-a-volume |
| Snapshots | €0.020 | 1 month minimum |
Snapshots can be made out of any volume.
https://www.scaleway.com/faq/billing/#-How-much-is-a-snapshot |
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Scaleway Plans
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/ |
|---|---|
| Price per month | €2.99 ($3.32) |
| Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
Surcharge The on-demand price for this plan is €4.32/month, which is 44% more expensive than the monthly price. The surcharge does not apply if the VPS is used for 20 days or more. |
| Disk GB | 50 |
| Num Cores | 4 |
| Memory GB | 2.0 |
| Hourly Billing | Yes |
| Virtualization | None |
| Data Transfer GB | 5000 |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated | No |
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests for Scaleway - ARM64-2GB. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the ARM64-2GB plan
This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the ARM64-2GB plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | Web Results | Sysbench Results | Avg web response time | P99 web response time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nov 01 2015 | Web | Sysbench | 206ms | 482ms |
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://www.scaleway.com/pricing/ |
|---|---|
| Price per month | €7.99 ($8.87) |
| Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
Surcharge The on-demand price for this plan is €11.52/month, which is 44% more expensive than the monthly price. The surcharge does not apply if the VPS is used for 30 days or more. |
| Disk GB | 40 |
| Num Cores | 3 |
| Memory GB | 4.0 |
| Hourly Billing | Yes |
| Virtualization | KVM |
| Data Transfer GB | Unlimited |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 29
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests for Scaleway - DEV1-M. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the DEV1-M plan
This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the DEV1-M plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | Web Results | Sysbench Results | Avg web response time | P99 web response time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apr 02 2019 | Web | Sysbench | 120ms | 297ms |
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/ |
|---|---|
| Price per month | €15.99 ($17.75) |
| Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
Surcharge The on-demand price for this plan is €23.00/month, which is 43% more expensive than the monthly price. The surcharge does not apply if the VPS is used for 30 days or more. |
| Disk GB | 80 |
| Num Cores | 4 |
| Memory GB | 8.0 |
| Hourly Billing | Yes |
| Virtualization | KVM |
| Data Transfer GB | Unlimited |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 24
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests for Scaleway - DEV1-L. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the DEV1-L plan
This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the DEV1-L plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | Web Results | Sysbench Results | Avg web response time | P99 web response time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aug 09 2019 | Web | Sysbench | 160ms | 445ms |
Plan Specifications
| URL | https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/ |
|---|---|
| Price per month | €39.00 ($43.29) |
| Discount or Surcharge for long or short term use |
Surcharge The on-demand price for this plan is €56.16/month, which is 44% more expensive than the monthly price. The surcharge does not apply if the VPS is used for 30 days or more. |
| Disk GB | 150 |
| Num Cores | 4 |
| Memory GB | 16.0 |
| Hourly Billing | Yes |
| Virtualization | KVM |
| Data Transfer GB | Unlimited |
| Burstable CPU | No |
| Dedicated | No |
Plan Grades
Grades are calculated by combining results from web, sysbench, endurance and remote timing tests. Grade A is best, grade F is worst.
Follow the letter links to find the test results backing the grade.
More details about grades calculation
Overall Score: 55
Performance Test Results
We conducted 5 different types of tests for Scaleway - GP1-XS. Review the results and compare this plan to its competitors.
Performance trials run on the GP1-XS plan
This plan was tested 1 times at vpsbenchmarks.com. The table below shows all trials run on the GP1-XS plan and the web response times for every one of those.
| Start of Trial | Web Results | Sysbench Results | Avg web response time | P99 web response time |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jun 07 2019 | Web | Sysbench | 75ms | 200ms |
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