RunPod vs Scaleway
- GPUs
- 43 5
- Cheapest GPU
- $0.13/hr $0.88/hr
- Price wins
- 4/4 0/4
RunPod is cheaper on all 4 GPUs both rent. RunPod carries 38 more GPUs.
GPU cloud that rents pods billed per second and runs serverless endpoints, with community and secure hosting tiers.
Best for: Serverless inference and cheap GPU pods
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 4 GPUs both rent. Cheapest live rate per GPU-hour, most powerful first. The cheaper side is in purple.
| GPU | RunPod | Scaleway | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|
| NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB | $7.89/hr | $8.42/hr | 7% |
| NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB | $3.49/hr | $3.58/hr | 3% |
| NVIDIA H100 PCIe 80GB | $2.89/hr | $3.22/hr | 11% |
| NVIDIA L4 24GB | $0.49/hr | $0.88/hr | 80% |
Prices last checked: RunPod 4 Oct 2026, Scaleway 4 Oct 2026.
Only on one side
Only on RunPod 39
- NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB $6.79
- AMD Instinct MI300X 192GB $2.39
- NVIDIA H200 SXM 141GB $4.59
- NVIDIA H100 NVL 94GB $3.19
- NVIDIA H200 NVL 141GB $3.79
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Workstation Edition $2.19
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Server Edition $0.59
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell Max-Q Workstation Edition $0.50
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 32GB $0.99
- NVIDIA RTX 6000 Ada 48GB $0.84
- NVIDIA L40S 48GB $1.09
- NVIDIA A100 SXM4 80GB $1.59
- NVIDIA A100 PCIe 80GB $1.59
- NVIDIA A100 SXM4 40GB $1.00
- NVIDIA RTX 5000 Ada 32GB $0.83
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 5000 Blackwell 48GB $0.96
- NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 16GB $0.59
- NVIDIA RTX PRO 4500 Blackwell 32GB $0.72
- +21 more on the RunPod page
Only on Scaleway 1
Company facts
| Fact | RunPod | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| Headquarters |  United States |  Paris, France |
| Type | GPU cloud | GPU cloud |
| Founded | 2022 | n/a |
| GPUs priced | 43 | 5 |
| Fastest GPU | NVIDIA B200 SXM 180GB | NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB |
Compliance
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Questions
- What is the difference between RunPod and Scaleway?
- RunPod: GPU cloud that rents pods billed per second and runs serverless endpoints, with community and secure hosting tiers. Scaleway: Cloud provider that rents GPU instances billed by usage from European datacenters, alongside managed AI services.
- Is RunPod cheaper than Scaleway?
- RunPod is cheaper on all 4 GPUs both rent. RunPod carries 38 more GPUs.
- How much does a NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB cost on RunPod and Scaleway?
- RunPod charges $7.89 per GPU-hour and Scaleway charges $8.42 per GPU-hour, the cheapest live rate on each.
- Which GPUs can I rent on both RunPod and Scaleway?
- 4 GPUs, including NVIDIA B300 SXM 262GB, NVIDIA H100 SXM5 80GB, NVIDIA H100 PCIe 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.
