Baseten vs Scaleway
- GPUs
- 6 5
- Cheapest GPU
- $0.63/hr $0.88/hr
- Price wins
- 1/2 1/2
Baseten and Scaleway split the 2 GPUs they both rent. Baseten carries 1 more GPU.
Runs dedicated model inference billed per minute of GPU time, plus pre-optimised model APIs billed per token.
Best for: Production inference for custom models
Cloud provider that rents GPU instances billed by usage from European datacenters, alongside managed AI services.
Best for: GPU instances with managed AI services
Price by GPU
The 2 GPUs both rent. Cheapest live rate per GPU-hour, most powerful first. The cheaper side is in purple.
| GPU | Baseten | Scaleway | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $6.50/hr | $3.58/hr | 81% |
| NVIDIA L4 24GB | $0.85/hr | $0.88/hr | 4% |
Prices last checked: Baseten 4 Oct 2026, Scaleway 4 Oct 2026.
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Company facts
| Fact | Baseten | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters |  San Francisco, CA |  Paris, France |
| Type | GPU cloud | GPU cloud |
| GPUs priced | 6 | 5 |
| Fastest GPU | NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB | NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB |
| Services | Dedicated model inference, pre-optimised model APIs, training (Loops SDK), self-hosted deployment | n/a |
| Pricing models | Per-minute GPU compute, per-token for model APIs | n/a |
Compliance
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Questions
- What is the difference between Baseten and Scaleway?
- Baseten: Runs dedicated model inference billed per minute of GPU time, plus pre-optimised model APIs billed per token. Scaleway: Cloud provider that rents GPU instances billed by usage from European datacenters, alongside managed AI services.
- Is Baseten cheaper than Scaleway?
- Baseten and Scaleway split the 2 GPUs they both rent. Baseten carries 1 more GPU.
- How much does a NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB cost on Baseten and Scaleway?
- Baseten charges $6.50 per GPU-hour and Scaleway charges $3.58 per GPU-hour, the cheapest live rate on each.
- Which GPUs can I rent on both Baseten and Scaleway?
- 2 GPUs, including NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB, NVIDIA L4 24GB.
- How are these prices compared?
- Each figure is the cheapest live rate per GPU-hour for that GPU. We use on-demand pricing where a provider sells it and fall back to community or reserved terms, labelled, where that is all they sell. Spot capacity is left out because it can be reclaimed. Rates are refreshed by our daily ingest.
How we define a live price: methodology.
