Comparison

Hetzner vs Scaleway

No leader: the top candidate Scaleway has only 0.21 confidence (low), below the 0.35 needed to declare a winner. The attribute-by-attribute breakdown below, with a source and date on every value, is the honest way to compare them.

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Hetzner42
Scaleway56
Score
Vioscale score
Hetzner42 / 100low · 32%
Scaleway56 / 100low · 21%
Pricing
Free tier
Hetzner
Scaleway
Model
Hetznercommercial
Scalewaycommercial
Price level
Hetznerunknown
Scaleway
Transparent
Hetzner
Scaleway
Security
Disclosure policy
Hetzner
Scaleway
Gdpr
Hetzner
Scaleway
Reliability
Status page
Hetzner
Scaleway

Capabilities

Feature-by-feature on the axes that matter for cloud infrastructure. “-” means undocumented, not absent.

Core
Provider tier
HetznerRegional / sovereign
ScalewayHyperscaler
Reach
Regions / global footprint
Hetzner3 (Nuremberg and Falkenstein in Germany, Helsinki in Finland)
Scaleway4 multi-AZ in Europe, 65+ PoPs globally
Compute
Bare-metal servers
Hetzner
Scaleway
GPU / accelerated compute
Hetzner-
Scaleway
Spot / preemptible pricing
Hetzner-
Scaleway-
Storage
Object storage
Hetzner
Scaleway
Block storage
Hetzner-
Scaleway-
Managed
Managed Kubernetes
Hetzner
Scaleway-
Managed databases
Hetzner-
Scaleway-
Serverless / FaaS
Hetzner-
Scaleway-
Network
VPC / private networking
Hetzner-
Scaleway-
Pricing
Free / low egress
Hetzner-
Scaleway-
Compliance
Data-residency / sovereign options
Hetzner
Scaleway
Ecosystem
Partner marketplace
Hetzner-
Scaleway

What each one is

The product in its own terms, so the numbers below have context.

Hetzner

Hetzner provides cloud servers, dedicated physical hardware, managed hosting, and storage solutions via data centers in Germany and Finland, with monthly billing and 24/7 support. Data is kept within the EU by default.

Independently observed

Scaleway

Scaleway is a European cloud provider offering compute, storage, AI models, managed databases, Kubernetes, and serverless services. All infrastructure hosted in Europe.

Independently observed

Pricing

List pricing as published by each vendor, with the date we read it. Always verify at the source before you buy.

Hetzner

Subscription

Monthly billing; cloud resources billed hourly within monthly invoice. No annual or prepaid options. Auto-renews unless cancelled.

as of verify ↗

Scaleway

Pricing not documented yet.

Platform & deployment

Where each product runs and how it can be hosted. A dash means undocumented, not unsupported.

Platforms
Web
Hetzner
Scaleway
Deployment
Cloud / SaaS
Hetzner
Scaleway

Comparison generated from independently-sourced facts. Every value links to its source and retrieval date. See the method.