VPS comparisons

OVHcloud vs Scaleway: French providers, different products

OVHcloud's committed VPS pricing compared with Scaleway's BASIC2 instances and STARDUST entry plan, including the block-storage caveat.

Recorded data: 2026-10-25 · Comparison question: What changes when a French VPS is committed for 12 months versus billed as a bare instance?

Current recorded data

Rows are generated from the verified catalog snapshot at build time. Unknown means the provider did not publish the field; it is not zero.

Plan	Listed monthly price	Renewal monthly price	Planning figure	Setup fee	vCPU	RAM	Storage	Traffic	IPv6	Backups	regions	Verified
OVHcloud VPS-2 2027OVHcloud	7.21 EUR ($8.07)	7.21 EUR ($8.07)	$8.07	$0.00	4	8192 MB	75 GB nvme	unknown	yes	yes ($0.00/mo)	1	2026-10-24
Scaleway Scaleway BASIC2-A2C-4GScaleway	16.79 EUR ($18.79)	16.79 EUR ($18.79)	$18.79	$0.00	2	4096 MB	unknown	unknown	unknown	unknown	2	2026-10-25
Scaleway STARDUST1-SScaleway	0.44 EUR ($0.49)	0.44 EUR ($0.49)	$0.49	$0.00	1	1024 MB	unknown	unknown	yes	unknown	2	2026-10-24

Scope: EUR plans captured on 2026-10-24, compared on recorded price, commitment, storage inclusion and region evidence.

Commitment versus flexible billing

OVHcloud's recorded price is the 12-month commitment rate from its public order catalog; the month-to-month rate is higher and noted in the limitations. Scaleway bills instances monthly with no long commitment in the captured data.

For a short experiment, Scaleway's flexibility is worth the higher monthly rate. For a stable year-long service, OVHcloud's committed rate is the relevant number.

Storage is not included the same way

OVHcloud's VPS plans include local NVMe storage. Scaleway's BASIC2 instances are arm64 compute without bundled local disk, and STARDUST1-S is an entry instance whose price excludes persistent block storage.

The STARDUST entry price is therefore not comparable to a plan with an 80 GB disk until the volume price is added. The table shows storage as unknown for STARDUST rather than zero.

Architecture

Scaleway's BASIC2 line is arm64 (Ampere). That is a real advantage for workloads with arm64 builds and a real obstacle for x86-only binaries. OVHcloud's VPS plans are x86-64 in this dataset.

Check container image architecture and any proprietary agents before choosing arm64; a cheap arm64 plan that cannot run your stack is not cheap.

Backups and regions

OVHcloud includes a daily 24-hour backup and sells premium 7-day backup and snapshots. Scaleway's captured sources do not state a backup inclusion for these plans, so backup is unknown here.

Only the GRA region was captured for OVHcloud VPS plans, while Scaleway's BASIC2 plan lists Paris and Amsterdam. Treat both region lists as partial.

Limits of this comparison

Scaleway backup terms were not captured for these plans.
OVHcloud region coverage is limited to GRA in this dataset.
No independent performance measurements exist for either provider.

Facts come from provider-published sources recorded in the catalog. Independent performance, support and reliability measurements are not available, so this comparison does not rank those dimensions.

Sources behind the table

OVHcloud public VPS catalog (IE)OVHcloud · Provider official · Observed Oct 24, 2026Official JSON catalog; plan codes vps-2027-model1..4, net EUR prices, 12/6/1-month commitments, EUR taxRate 23.https://eu.api.ovh.com/1.0/order/catalog/public/vps?ovhSubsidiary=IE
VPS plans (Ireland, EUR)OVHcloud · Provider official · Observed Oct 24, 2026VPS 2027 cards: 2-8 vCores, 4-24 GB RAM, 40-200 GB NVMe, unlimited traffic, 500 Mbps-3 Gbps, daily backup; From EUR X ex. VAT/month; observed 2026-10-24 UTC.https://www.ovhcloud.com/en-ie/vps/
Scaleway API - instance products (fr-par-1)Scaleway · Provider official · Observed Oct 25, 2026Public API listing 50 server SKUs with ncpus/ram/monthly_price/network bandwidth. BASIC2 (Ampere ARM) is the current entry-value line; legacy Value/Value Performance SKUs no longer listed. Fetched 2026-10-25.https://api.scaleway.com/instance/v1/zones/fr-par-1/products/servers
Scaleway API - instance products (nl-ams-1)Scaleway · Provider official · Observed Oct 25, 2026Confirms the BASIC2 SKUs are also listed in Amsterdam. Fetched 2026-10-25.https://api.scaleway.com/instance/v1/zones/nl-ams-1/products/servers
ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates — USDEuropean Central Bank · Third party · Observed Oct 23, 2026EUR/USD reference rate 1.1193 on 2026-10-23, used only to normalize EUR-denominated offers into USD for filtering and budget comparisons. Converted values are rounded to the nearest cent.https://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/euro_reference_exchange_rates/html/index.en.html
Scaleway Instance API — server products, fr-par-1Scaleway SAS · Provider API · Observed Oct 24, 2026Public product API used for plan vCPU, RAM, hourly/monthly EUR price, IPv6 support and internet bandwidth in the Paris zone.https://api.scaleway.com/instance/v1/zones/fr-par-1/products/servers
Scaleway Instance API — server products, nl-ams-1Scaleway SAS · Provider API · Observed Oct 24, 2026Public product API used to confirm the same five plans and prices in the Amsterdam zone.https://api.scaleway.com/instance/v1/zones/nl-ams-1/products/servers
Scaleway Instance API — server products, pl-waw-1Scaleway SAS · Provider API · Observed Oct 24, 2026Public product API used to confirm plan availability and prices in Warsaw. STARDUST1-S is not offered in this zone.https://api.scaleway.com/instance/v1/zones/pl-waw-1/products/servers

Table values come from these recorded provider sources; the editorial analysis above adds no facts beyond them. Unknown means the field was not published.