Scaleway — provider assessment
Subject: Scaleway
Scaleway's public Instance product API publishes vCPU, RAM, hourly/monthly EUR prices, IPv6 support and bandwidth for Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw. This assessment verifies five plans. Block storage is separate and the captured API does not state egress or backup pricing.
Overall score withheld
The evidence coverage is insufficient for a single overall score. The dimension results below are evidence assessments, not a universal quality ranking.
Conclusion
A useful API-verifiable option for European deployments, especially when storage is priced separately. The overall score is withheld because block-storage cost, egress, backups and independent performance are not assessed.
Dimensions
Assessed dimensions have a score and rationale. Not-assessed dimensions remain visibly unknown; they are not assigned a neutral score.
| Dimension | Status | Score | Rationale and evidence |
|---|---|---|---|
| Location fit | assessed | 3 / 5 | Plan availability was checked in Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw. STARDUST1-S is not offered in Warsaw; the other four plans are listed in all three zones. |
| Network performance | not assessed | Overall score withheld | No independent throughput, latency or packet-loss test was run on this provider. |
| Policies and limitations | assessed | 3 / 5 | IPv6 support is API-visible. Egress policy, backup pricing, SLA and refund terms were not reviewed in this dataset. |
| Price transparency | assessed | 4 / 5 | The API provides hourly and estimated monthly EUR prices. Tax treatment and any promotional terms are not stated in the captured response. |
| Source freshness | assessed | 5 / 5 | The selected official sources were observed on 2026-10-24. |
| Specifications | assessed | 4 / 5 | The Instance API provides vCPU, RAM, IPv6 support and internet bandwidth. Included block storage is not stated, so storage remains unknown. |
| Support and reliability | not assessed | Overall score withheld | No support interaction or independent reliability data was collected. |
Strengths
- Public API exposes plan specs, prices, IPv6 support and bandwidth.
- Five plans were checked across three European zones.
- The entry STARDUST1-S price is very low for a small workload.
Weaknesses and limits
- Block storage is separate, so the true monthly cost is higher for most workloads.
- Egress allowance is unknown.
- Backup and snapshot pricing are unknown.
- No independent performance evidence.
Suitable for
- European API-verifiable deployments
- Workloads that already price block storage separately
- Small development and staging hosts
Not suitable for
- Buyers who need an all-in storage price
- Egress-sensitive workloads without quota verification
- Workloads requiring measured performance
Known unknowns
- Included block storage
- Egress quota
- Backup pricing
- Tax treatment
- Virtualization
- Independent performance and reliability
Limitations
- Provider API only; no Scaleway instance or block volume was purchased.
- Five plans across three zones are covered, not the full Scaleway catalog.
Correction path: use the source links and verification dates to challenge a claim. Do not treat an old snapshot as current.
Alternatives
Hetzner CPX12
Included NVMe storage and exact EU datacenter prices, with documented IPs.
UpCloud Starter 2gb / 2core
Included storage, confirmed dual-stack networking and zero-cost egress.
Cited evidence
- ECB euro foreign exchange reference rates — USDhttps://www.ecb.europa.eu/stats/policy_and_exchange_rates/euro_reference_exchange_rates/html/index.en.html
- Scaleway Instance API — server products, fr-par-1https://api.scaleway.com/instance/v1/zones/fr-par-1/products/servers
- Scaleway Instance API — server products, nl-ams-1https://api.scaleway.com/instance/v1/zones/nl-ams-1/products/servers
- Scaleway Instance API — server products, pl-waw-1https://api.scaleway.com/instance/v1/zones/pl-waw-1/products/servers
- VPSTab review and evaluation methodology v1https://github.com/niceyayale/vpstab/blob/feat/phase-0-foundation/docs/product/review-methodology.md