What is the difference between Lambda Labs and Scaleway?

Lambda Labs and Scaleway are both cloud GPU providers offering different pricing models, features, and GPU availability. Use our comparison tool to see real-time pricing and feature differences.

Which is cheaper: Lambda Labs or Scaleway?

Pricing varies by GPU model and usage requirements. Check our real-time comparison table to find the best deals for your specific needs.

Can I switch between Lambda Labs and Scaleway?

Yes, both providers offer flexible cloud GPU services. However, consider factors like data transfer costs, setup time, and specific features when switching between providers.

How many GPU models are available for comparison?

We track pricing for 13 different GPU models across both Lambda Labs and Scaleway, with 0 models available from both providers.

Lambda Labs vs Scaleway

Compare GPU and LLM inference API pricing between Lambda Labs and Scaleway. Find the best rates for AI training, inference, and ML workloads.

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Lambda Labs GPUs

Scaleway GPUs

Direct Comparisons

Average Price Difference: $0.77/hour between comparable GPUs

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 13Both available: 1Lambda Labs: 10Scaleway: 4

Showing 13 of 13 GPUs

Last updated: 10/6/2026, 5:24:24 AM

GPU Model ↑	Lambda Labs Price	Scaleway Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A10 24GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$1.29/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
A10 24GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $1.29/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$1.99/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $1.99/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$2.79/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $2.79/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$1.99/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $1.99/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
B200 180GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$6.69/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
B200 180GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $6.69/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
GH200 96GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$2.29/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
GH200 96GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $2.29/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
H100 PCIe 80GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$3.29/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
H100 PCIe 80GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $3.29/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Lambda LabsScaleway	$3.99/hr 8x GPU	$3.22/hr★ Best	↑+$0.77(+24.0%)	Lambda Labs API Scaleway Instances API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $3.99/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/6/2026 Scaleway $3.22/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$0.77(+24.0%) Lambda Labs API Scaleway Instances API
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Scaleway	Not Available	$8.42/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Scaleway Instances API
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Not Available Scaleway $8.42/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Scaleway Instances API
L4 24GB VRAM • Scaleway	Not Available	$0.88/hr★ Best	—	Scaleway Instances API
L4 24GB VRAM • Not Available Scaleway $0.88/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Scaleway Instances API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Scaleway	Not Available	$1.65/hr★ Best	—	Scaleway Instances API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Scaleway $1.65/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Scaleway Instances API
RTX A6000 48GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$1.09/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
RTX A6000 48GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $1.09/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
Tesla V100 32GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$0.79/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
Tesla V100 32GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $0.79/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API

A10 24GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$1.29/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
A10 24GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $1.29/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$1.99/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $1.99/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$2.79/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $2.79/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$1.99/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
A100 SXM 40GB 40GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $1.99/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
B200 180GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$6.69/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
B200 180GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $6.69/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
GH200 96GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$2.29/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
GH200 96GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $2.29/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
H100 PCIe 80GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$3.29/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
H100 PCIe 80GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $3.29/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Lambda LabsScaleway	$3.99/hr 8x GPU	$3.22/hr★ Best	↑+$0.77(+24.0%)	Lambda Labs API Scaleway Instances API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $3.99/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/6/2026 Scaleway $3.22/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$0.77(+24.0%) Lambda Labs API Scaleway Instances API
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Scaleway	Not Available	$8.42/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Scaleway Instances API
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Not Available Scaleway $8.42/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Scaleway Instances API
L4 24GB VRAM • Scaleway	Not Available	$0.88/hr★ Best	—	Scaleway Instances API
L4 24GB VRAM • Not Available Scaleway $0.88/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Scaleway Instances API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Scaleway	Not Available	$1.65/hr★ Best	—	Scaleway Instances API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Not Available Scaleway $1.65/hour Updated: 10/5/2026 ★Best Price Scaleway Instances API
RTX A6000 48GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$1.09/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
RTX A6000 48GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $1.09/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API
Tesla V100 32GB VRAM • Lambda Labs	$0.79/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Lambda Labs API
Tesla V100 32GB VRAM • Lambda Labs $0.79/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Lambda Labs API

LLM API Pricing Comparison

Total models: 8Both available: 0Lambda Labs: 0Scaleway: 8

Showing 8 of 8 models

Prices per 1M tokens · Last updated: 10/6/2026, 5:24:24 AM

Model ↑	Lambda Labs	Scaleway	Input Diff ↕
GLM-5.2 Zhipu	Not available	$2.02 in $6.16 out	—
GPT-OSS-120B OpenAI	Not available	$0.168 in $0.672 out	—
Llama 3.3 70B Meta	Not available	$1.01 in $1.01 out	—
Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral	Not available	$1.68 in $8.40 out	—
Qwen 3 Coder 30B Alibaba	Not available	$0.224 in $0.896 out	—
Qwen3.5 397B A17B Alibaba	Not available	$0.672 in $4.03 out	—
Qwen3.6 35B A3B Alibaba	Not available	$0.280 in $1.68 out	—
Qwen3.8 27B Alibaba	Not available	$0.672 in $3.70 out	—

Features Comparison

Lambda Labs

Scaleway

GPU Instances
L4, L40S, H100 (PCIe and SXM) and B300-SXM (Blackwell) GPU instances in configurations from 1 to 8 GPUs.
Generative APIs
Serverless, pay-per-token access to hosted chat, vision, embedding and audio models, plus dedicated GPU deployments for models that need isolated capacity.
Bare Metal
Dedibox dedicated servers and cloud-integrated Elastic Metal alongside GPU and virtual instance compute.
Managed Kubernetes
Kapsule and Kosmos managed Kubernetes offerings for containerized workloads.
EU Data Sovereignty
Infrastructure across multiple multi-availability-zone European regions, with data residency in the EU.
Automation Tooling
Console, API, CLI and Terraform provider for provisioning and lifecycle automation.

Pros & Cons

Lambda Labs

Advantages

Early access to latest NVIDIA GPUs (H100, H200, Blackwell)
Specialized for AI workloads
One-click Jupyter access
Pre-installed popular ML frameworks

Considerations

Primarily focused on AI and ML workloads
Limited global data center presence compared to major cloud providers
Newer player in the cloud GPU market

Scaleway

Advantages

GPU lineup spanning L4 through B300-SXM (Blackwell) in 1-8 GPU configurations
Two inference paths: serverless per-token Generative APIs and dedicated GPU deployments for the same model catalog
European headquarters with data residency across multiple multi-AZ EU regions
Free tier for trying Generative APIs, including a token allowance and audio transcription minutes

Considerations

On-demand hourly pricing only; no reserved or spot pricing published for GPU Instances
Some GPU types are limited to specific availability zones
Faster support response times require a paid support plan

Compute Services

Lambda Labs

Scaleway

Pricing Options

Lambda Labs

Scaleway

On-demand GPU Instances

Hourly per-instance billing for L4, L40S, H100 and B300-SXM configurations, with no reserved or spot options.

Generative APIs - Serverless

Pay-per-token billing for hosted chat, vision, embedding and audio models, with a discount for Batches API requests.

Generative APIs - Dedicated Deployment

Hourly billing by GPU resource type for isolated model hosting.

Bare Metal

Dedibox and Elastic Metal dedicated servers, billed separately from GPU compute.

Getting Started

Lambda Labs

Get Started

Scaleway

Get Started

1
Create an account
Sign up in the Scaleway console and complete identity verification.
2
Choose a region
Select an availability zone; some GPU types are limited to specific zones.
3
Launch a GPU Instance or call a Generative API
Provision a GPU Instance from the console, API, CLI or Terraform, or call a hosted model through the Generative APIs.
4
Connect and deploy
Connect to the running instance, or integrate the API endpoint into an application.
5
Monitor usage and get support
Track consumption in the console and reach support via ticket, with paid plans offering hotline access.

Support & Global Availability

Lambda Labs

Scaleway

Global Regions

GPU Instances span multiple multi-availability-zone regions in Europe; Generative APIs (serverless and dedicated) are currently served from the Paris region.

Support

24/7 ticket support included on every plan; paid Advanced, Business and Enterprise tiers add hotline access, faster response times and, on Enterprise, a dedicated technical account manager. Additional resources include documentation, a community Slack and a public status page; support is offered in English and French.