Scaleway Review

Scaleway Dedibox VPS Pricing (verified 2026-08)

Monthly prices exclude VAT. START = standard CPUs; PRO = premium CPUs; STORE = premium CPUs + high-capacity NVMe + 10 Gbit/s network. All include unlimited traffic with fair-use throttling. Full lineup scales to 64 vCPU / 128 GB / 16 TB NVMe (STORE-2-XXXL at €569.99/mo). Scaleway also sells hourly Public Cloud Instances from roughly €0.43/mo equivalent. Verify current pricing on scaleway.com before ordering.

Two VPS Paths: Dedibox VPS and Public Cloud Instances

Scaleway's monthly-billed Dedibox VPS is the direct successor to its classic VPS range: full root access on shared KVM hardware, deployed in a few minutes, with per-plan bandwidth from 200 Mbps up to 10 Gbit/s on the STORE range. Unlimited traffic is included, with fair-use throttling beyond a certain amount on each configuration.

Separately, Scaleway's Public Cloud "Instances" are hourly-billed VMs in the full cloud ecosystem — Paris, Amsterdam, and Warsaw regions, with private networking, block storage, and API/Terraform management. These advertising zero egress fees and are the natural fit when you want the broader Scaleway ecosystem (object storage, managed databases, VPC) rather than a standalone monthly VPS.

The Ranges: START, PRO, and STORE

Dedibox VPS splits into three ranges. START uses standard CPUs and 20–100 GB NVMe, from €4.99/mo — good for light web hosting and staging. PRO uses premium CPUs with up to 1 TB NVMe, from €7.99/mo, aimed at consistent production performance. STORE pairs premium CPUs with high-capacity NVMe (up to 16 TB) and 10 Gbit/s networking, from €7.99/mo, for storage-heavy workloads and media.

Pricing is uniform worldwide: the same plan costs the same amount regardless of which of the 20+ locations you deploy to. That is a genuinely useful trait for teams that want identical specs in different geographies without regional price surprises.

Locations and Network

Dedibox VPS is offered in 20+ locations across North America (New York, Dallas, Chicago, Los Angeles, Toronto, Montreal, and more), South America (São Paulo, Buenos Aires, Santiago, Bogotá), Europe (Paris, Frankfurt, London, Amsterdam, Madrid, Stockholm, Zurich, and more), and APAC/MEA (Singapore, Tokyo, Hong Kong, Sydney, Mumbai, Tel Aviv, Johannesburg, Istanbul, and more).

Public Cloud Instances are anchored in three dedicated regions — Paris (FR-PAR), Amsterdam (NL-AMS), and Warsaw (PL-WAW) — plus GPU locations. For EU-residency and GDPR-sensitive workloads, the France + EU region footprint is a real selling point versus US-centric budget hosts.

Ecosystem, Control, and Support

Scaleway is one of the more developer-friendly European clouds. The Public Cloud side includes a full API, CLI, Terraform provider, object storage (S3-compatible), managed databases, VPC/Private Network, and IPAM. Dedibox VPS is deliberately standalone — the docs note it is not compatible with the Dedibox dedicated-server ecosystem (RPN, Failover IPs, Dedibackup, RPN-SAN).

Billing is straightforward: affordable monthly pricing with no hidden fees on Dedibox VPS, and hourly billing on Public Cloud Instances. Support is provided via Scaleway's ticket/console system and extensive documentation; it is reliable but not white-glove, and the cheapest tiers are unmanaged.

Who Should Choose Scaleway?

Choose Scaleway when you want a European, sovereign-cloud provider with EU regions, zero-egress pricing, and a mature developer ecosystem — or when you need identical monthly VPS specs across many global locations. It is a strong fit for GDPR-sensitive projects, EU-resident production workloads, IPv6-first deployments, and teams that use Terraform or an API.

Skip it if you need the Dedibox dedicated-server add-ons on a VPS, want the absolute lowest entry price (RackNerd and other US budget hosts win that), or prefer more manual hand-holding on support. For cheap throwaway test boxes, a US budget host is easier to walk away from.

Scaleway vs RackNerd

RackNerd is the better baseline for ultra-low-cost annual specials and pure US datacenter coverage. Scaleway wins on European sovereignty, EU data residency, zero-egress pricing on Instances, and a richer cloud ecosystem. For an EU-resident production workload with compliance requirements, Scaleway's €4.99/mo Dedibox VPS entry and €7.99/mo PRO range deliver strong value with the peace of mind of EU jurisdiction.

For a throwaway test box or a project with a tiny budget and no data-residency needs, RackNerd remains the cleaner, cheaper choice.

Our Verdict

Scaleway earns 4.3/5 for developers who value European sovereignty and predictable pricing. Unlimited-traffic Dedibox VPS from €4.99/mo in 20+ locations and zero-egress hourly Instances in Paris, Amsterdam, and Warsaw make it one of the strongest EU-native clouds in 2026. The standalone nature of Dedibox VPS, premium-CPU upsell, and unmanaged entry tiers keep it just short of the top tier.

Before ordering, decide which product fits: standalone monthly VPS (Dedibox VPS) or the full hourly cloud ecosystem (Instances). Then confirm the location you need is in stock and set up external backups for anything irreplaceable.