What is the difference between Modal and Scaleway?

Modal 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: Modal 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 Modal 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 11 different GPU models across both Modal and Scaleway, with 0 models available from both providers.

Modal vs Scaleway

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

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Modal GPUs

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Direct Comparisons

Average Price Difference: $0.61/hour between comparable GPUs

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 11Both available: 4Modal: 11Scaleway: 4

Showing 11 of 11 GPUs

Last updated: 10/6/2026, 11:54:17 PM

GPU Model ↑	Modal Price	Scaleway Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A10 24GB VRAM • Modal	$1.10/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Modal
A10 24GB VRAM • Modal $1.10/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Modal
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Modal	$2.10/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Modal
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Modal $2.10/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Modal
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Modal	$2.50/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Modal
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Modal $2.50/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Modal
B200 180GB VRAM • Modal	$6.25/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Modal
B200 180GB VRAM • Modal $6.25/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Modal
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • ModalScaleway	$3.95/hr	$3.21/hr★ Best	↑+$0.74(+23.0%)	Modal Scaleway Instances API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Modal $3.95/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 Scaleway $3.21/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$0.74(+23.0%) Modal Scaleway Instances API
H200 141GB VRAM • Modal	$4.54/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Modal
H200 141GB VRAM • Modal $4.54/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Modal
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • ModalScaleway	$7.10/hr★ Best	$8.40/hr 8x GPU	↓$1.30(15.5%)	Modal Scaleway Instances API
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Modal $7.10/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Scaleway $8.40/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/6/2026 Price Difference:↓$1.30(15.5%) Modal Scaleway Instances API
L4 24GB VRAM • ModalScaleway	$0.80/hr★ Best	$0.88/hr	↓$0.08(9.4%)	Modal Scaleway Instances API
L4 24GB VRAM • Modal $0.80/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Scaleway $0.88/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 Price Difference:↓$0.08(9.4%) Modal Scaleway Instances API
L40S 48GB VRAM • ModalScaleway	$1.95/hr	$1.65/hr★ Best	↑+$0.30(+18.5%)	Modal Scaleway Instances API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Modal $1.95/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 Scaleway $1.65/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$0.30(+18.5%) Modal Scaleway Instances API
RTX PRO 6000 96GB VRAM • Modal	$3.03/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Modal
RTX PRO 6000 96GB VRAM • Modal $3.03/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Modal
Tesla T4 16GB VRAM • Modal	$0.59/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Modal
Tesla T4 16GB VRAM • Modal $0.59/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Modal

A10 24GB VRAM • Modal	$1.10/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Modal
A10 24GB VRAM • Modal $1.10/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Modal
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Modal	$2.10/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Modal
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Modal $2.10/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Modal
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Modal	$2.50/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Modal
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Modal $2.50/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Modal
B200 180GB VRAM • Modal	$6.25/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Modal
B200 180GB VRAM • Modal $6.25/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Modal
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • ModalScaleway	$3.95/hr	$3.21/hr★ Best	↑+$0.74(+23.0%)	Modal Scaleway Instances API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Modal $3.95/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 Scaleway $3.21/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$0.74(+23.0%) Modal Scaleway Instances API
H200 141GB VRAM • Modal	$4.54/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Modal
H200 141GB VRAM • Modal $4.54/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Modal
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • ModalScaleway	$7.10/hr★ Best	$8.40/hr 8x GPU	↓$1.30(15.5%)	Modal Scaleway Instances API
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Modal $7.10/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Scaleway $8.40/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/6/2026 Price Difference:↓$1.30(15.5%) Modal Scaleway Instances API
L4 24GB VRAM • ModalScaleway	$0.80/hr★ Best	$0.88/hr	↓$0.08(9.4%)	Modal Scaleway Instances API
L4 24GB VRAM • Modal $0.80/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Scaleway $0.88/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 Price Difference:↓$0.08(9.4%) Modal Scaleway Instances API
L40S 48GB VRAM • ModalScaleway	$1.95/hr	$1.65/hr★ Best	↑+$0.30(+18.5%)	Modal Scaleway Instances API
L40S 48GB VRAM • Modal $1.95/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 Scaleway $1.65/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$0.30(+18.5%) Modal Scaleway Instances API
RTX PRO 6000 96GB VRAM • Modal	$3.03/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Modal
RTX PRO 6000 96GB VRAM • Modal $3.03/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Modal
Tesla T4 16GB VRAM • Modal	$0.59/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Modal
Tesla T4 16GB VRAM • Modal $0.59/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Modal

LLM API Pricing Comparison

Total models: 8Both available: 0Modal: 0Scaleway: 8

Showing 8 of 8 models

Prices per 1M tokens · Last updated: 10/6/2026, 11:54:16 PM

Model ↑	Modal	Scaleway	Input Diff ↕
GLM-5.2 Zhipu	Not available	$2.03 in $6.20 out	—
GPT-OSS-120B OpenAI	Not available	$0.169 in $0.676 out	—
Llama 3.3 70B Meta	Not available	$1.01 in $1.01 out	—
Mistral Medium 3.5 Mistral	Not available	$1.69 in $8.45 out	—
Qwen 3 Coder 30B Alibaba	Not available	$0.225 in $0.901 out	—
Qwen3.5 397B A17B Alibaba	Not available	$0.676 in $4.06 out	—
Qwen3.6 35B A3B Alibaba	Not available	$0.282 in $1.69 out	—
Qwen3.8 27B Alibaba	Not available	$0.676 in $3.72 out	—

Features Comparison

Modal

Serverless GPUs
Run Python functions on NVIDIA GPUs without provisioning instances; cold starts in seconds
Per-Second Billing
Pay for actual GPU runtime at sub-minute granularity, with scale-to-zero by default
Container-Native
Define environments in code, with automatic image building and caching
Wide GPU Catalog
From T4 and L4 through A100, L40S, H100, H200 and B200

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

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Advantages

Serverless model removes idle-instance costs
Per-second billing across the full GPU range
Strong fit for inference, batch jobs and ML pipelines

Considerations

Long-running, fixed-instance training is not the primary use case
Cold starts and storage limits require some application design
No bare-metal access; workloads run inside Modal's runtime

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

Modal

Scaleway

Pricing Options

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Per-Second GPU Billing

Charged per second of GPU runtime, with scale-to-zero when idle

Free Tier

Monthly free credits for experimentation and personal projects

Team and Enterprise Plans

Volume commitments and enterprise support for production deployments

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

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Get Started

1
Install the SDK
Run `pip install modal` and authenticate via the CLI
2
Define a function
Decorate a Python function with the desired GPU and image specification
3
Run or deploy
Invoke locally or deploy as a long-lived endpoint or scheduled job

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

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Global Regions

Multi-region availability across North America and Europe

Support

Documentation, community forum, and enterprise support for paid plans

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.