What is the difference between Paperspace and Scaleway?

Paperspace 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: Paperspace 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 Paperspace 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 14 different GPU models across both Paperspace and Scaleway, with 0 models available from both providers.

Paperspace vs Scaleway

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

Paperspace

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Comparison Overview

Total GPU Models

Paperspace GPUs

Scaleway GPUs

Direct Comparisons

Average Price Difference: $2.74/hour between comparable GPUs

GPU Pricing Comparison

Total GPUs: 14Both available: 1Paperspace: 11Scaleway: 4

Showing 14 of 14 GPUs

Last updated: 10/6/2026, 1:55:18 PM

GPU Model ↑	Paperspace Price	Scaleway Price	Price Diff ↕	Sources
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Paperspace	$3.09/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Paperspace
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Paperspace $3.09/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Paperspace
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Paperspace	$3.18/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Paperspace
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Paperspace $3.18/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Paperspace
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • PaperspaceScaleway	$5.95/hr	$3.21/hr★ Best	↑+$2.74(+85.3%)	Paperspace Scaleway Instances API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Paperspace $5.95/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 Scaleway $3.21/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$2.74(+85.3%) Paperspace Scaleway Instances API
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Scaleway	Not Available	$8.40/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Scaleway Instances API
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Not Available Scaleway $8.40/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Scaleway Instances API
Quadro P4000 8GB VRAM • Paperspace	$0.51/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Paperspace
Quadro P4000 8GB VRAM • Paperspace $0.51/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Paperspace
Quadro P5000 16GB VRAM • Paperspace	$0.78/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Paperspace
Quadro P5000 16GB VRAM • Paperspace $0.78/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Paperspace
Quadro RTX 4000 8GB VRAM • Paperspace	$0.56/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Paperspace
Quadro RTX 4000 8GB VRAM • Paperspace $0.56/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Paperspace
Quadro RTX 5000 16GB VRAM • Paperspace	$0.82/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Paperspace
Quadro RTX 5000 16GB VRAM • Paperspace $0.82/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Paperspace
RTX A4000 16GB VRAM • Paperspace	$0.76/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Paperspace
RTX A4000 16GB VRAM • Paperspace $0.76/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Paperspace
RTX A5000 24GB VRAM • Paperspace	$1.38/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Paperspace
RTX A5000 24GB VRAM • Paperspace $1.38/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Paperspace
RTX A6000 48GB VRAM • Paperspace	$0.94/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Paperspace
RTX A6000 48GB VRAM • Paperspace $0.94/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Paperspace
Tesla V100 32GB VRAM • Paperspace	$1.15/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Paperspace
Tesla V100 32GB VRAM • Paperspace $1.15/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Paperspace

A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Paperspace	$3.09/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Paperspace
A100 PCIE 40GB VRAM • Paperspace $3.09/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Paperspace
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Paperspace	$3.18/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Paperspace
A100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Paperspace $3.18/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Paperspace
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • PaperspaceScaleway	$5.95/hr	$3.21/hr★ Best	↑+$2.74(+85.3%)	Paperspace Scaleway Instances API
H100 SXM 80GB VRAM • Paperspace $5.95/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 Scaleway $3.21/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Price Difference:↑+$2.74(+85.3%) Paperspace Scaleway Instances API
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Scaleway	Not Available	$8.40/hr★ Best 8x GPU	—	Scaleway Instances API
HGX B300 288GB VRAM • Not Available Scaleway $8.40/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★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: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Scaleway Instances API
Quadro P4000 8GB VRAM • Paperspace	$0.51/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Paperspace
Quadro P4000 8GB VRAM • Paperspace $0.51/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Paperspace
Quadro P5000 16GB VRAM • Paperspace	$0.78/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Paperspace
Quadro P5000 16GB VRAM • Paperspace $0.78/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Paperspace
Quadro RTX 4000 8GB VRAM • Paperspace	$0.56/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Paperspace
Quadro RTX 4000 8GB VRAM • Paperspace $0.56/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Paperspace
Quadro RTX 5000 16GB VRAM • Paperspace	$0.82/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Paperspace
Quadro RTX 5000 16GB VRAM • Paperspace $0.82/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Paperspace
RTX A4000 16GB VRAM • Paperspace	$0.76/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Paperspace
RTX A4000 16GB VRAM • Paperspace $0.76/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Paperspace
RTX A5000 24GB VRAM • Paperspace	$1.38/hr★ Best	Not Available	—	Paperspace
RTX A5000 24GB VRAM • Paperspace $1.38/hour Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Paperspace
RTX A6000 48GB VRAM • Paperspace	$0.94/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Paperspace
RTX A6000 48GB VRAM • Paperspace $0.94/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Paperspace
Tesla V100 32GB VRAM • Paperspace	$1.15/hr★ Best 8x GPU	Not Available	—	Paperspace
Tesla V100 32GB VRAM • Paperspace $1.15/hour 8x GPU configuration Updated: 10/6/2026 ★Best Price Not Available Paperspace

LLM API Pricing Comparison

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

Showing 8 of 8 models

Prices per 1M tokens · Last updated: 10/6/2026, 1:55:17 PM

Model ↑	Paperspace	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

Paperspace

Gradient Notebooks
Interactive Jupyter notebooks with a free tier, pre-configured templates, and access to powerful GPUs.
Gradient Deployments
Serve machine learning models as scalable API endpoints.
Core Machines
High-performance virtual machines with a wide variety of NVIDIA GPUs for demanding workloads.
Team Collaboration
Features for teams to collaborate on projects, including shared drives and SSO.
Persistent Storage
Offers persistent storage that can be shared across different machines and notebooks.
API and CLI
Programmatic access to the Paperspace platform to automate workflows.

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

Paperspace

Advantages

User-friendly interface and easy to get started
Wide range of NVIDIA GPU options
Free GPU and CPU plans for notebooks
Pay-per-second billing model

Considerations

Limited data center regions (US and Europe)
Some user reports of inconsistent customer support
Availability of high-end multi-GPU instances can be limited

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

Paperspace

Core GPU Instances

Virtual machines with a wide range of NVIDIA GPUs for various workloads.

Gradient Notebooks

Managed Jupyter notebooks for interactive development and experimentation.

Free CPU and GPU tiers
1-click launch with pre-configured templates

Gradient Deployments

A serverless product for deploying trained models as REST APIs.

Scalable and managed infrastructure
Integration with Gradient Notebooks and Workflows

Scaleway

Pricing Options

Paperspace

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

Paperspace

Get Started

1
Create an Account
Sign up for a Paperspace account. You can start with a free plan.
2
Choose a Product
Select the product that best fits your needs, such as Gradient Notebooks for interactive development or Core Machines for more control.
3
Select a Template and Machine
Choose a pre-configured template for your desired framework and select a GPU or CPU instance.
4
Start Working
Launch your machine or notebook and begin building, training, or deploying your AI applications.

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

Paperspace

Global Regions

Data centers are located in the US (Secaucus, NJ and Santa Clara, CA) and Europe (Amsterdam, NL).

Support

Support is available through a community forum, extensive documentation, and a support ticket system.

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.