Modal vs Scaleway
- GPUs
- 11 5
- Cheapest GPU
- $0.59/hr $0.88/hr
- Price wins
- 2/3 1/3
Modal is cheaper on 2 of the 3 GPUs both rent, Scaleway on 1. Modal carries 6 more GPUs.
Serverless GPU platform where code runs as functions for inference, batch jobs and training, billed per second with no commitments.
Best for: Serverless inference and batch jobs
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 3 GPUs both rent. Cheapest live rate per GPU-hour, most powerful first. The cheaper side is in purple.
| GPU | Modal | Scaleway | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB | $7.10/hr | $8.42/hr | 19% |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $3.95/hr | $3.58/hr | 10% |
| NVIDIA L4 24GB | $0.80/hr | $0.88/hr | 11% |
Prices last checked: Modal 1 Oct 2026, Scaleway 4 Oct 2026.
Only on one side
Only on Modal 8
Only on Scaleway 2
Company facts
| Fact | Modal | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters |  New York City, United States |  Paris, France |
| Type | GPU cloud | GPU cloud |
| GPUs priced | 11 | 5 |
| Fastest GPU | NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB | NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB |
| Services | Serverless GPU compute, inference, batch jobs, training, sandboxes | n/a |
| Pricing models | Pay-per-second, no commitments | n/a |
Compliance
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Questions
- What is the difference between Modal and Scaleway?
- Modal: Serverless GPU platform where code runs as functions for inference, batch jobs and training, billed per second with no commitments. Scaleway: Cloud provider that rents GPU instances billed by usage from European datacenters, alongside managed AI services.
- Is Modal cheaper than Scaleway?
- Modal is cheaper on 2 of the 3 GPUs both rent, Scaleway on 1. Modal carries 6 more GPUs.
- How much does a NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB cost on Modal and Scaleway?
- Modal charges $7.10 per GPU-hour and Scaleway charges $8.42 per GPU-hour, the cheapest live rate on each.
- Which GPUs can I rent on both Modal and Scaleway?
- 3 GPUs, including NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB, 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.
