Scaleway Instances vs Kamatera Cloud Servers

SIScaleway Instances8.0Visit Kamatera Cloud Servers7.0Visit

Higher score SI Scaleway Instances #15 in Cloud Hosting 8.0/10 From €0.00 ✓ 4 of 4 features Visit Scaleway

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Kamatera Cloud Servers #25 in Cloud Hosting 7.0/10 From $4/mo · 30-day trial Free trial✓ 3 of 4 features Visit Kamatera

• Scaleway Instances fits best

  Budget-conscious European VM deployments

• Kamatera Cloud Servers fits best

  Teams wanting inexpensive configurable servers

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Side by side

Feature	SIScaleway Instances 8.0/10 Visit ↗	Kamatera Cloud Servers 7.0/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	8.0	7.0
Ranking	#15 in Cloud Hosting	#25 in Cloud Hosting
Best for	Budget-conscious European VM deployments	Teams wanting inexpensive configurable servers
Pricing model	Paid	Paid
Starting price	From €0.00	$4/mo
Free plan	—	—
Free trial	—	30 days
Deployment	Cloud	Cloud
Platforms	Web	Web
Support	Tickets, Phone · 24/7	Email, Live chat, Phone, Docs · 24/7
Built for	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise	Solo, Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise
Features Scaleway Instances 4/4 · Kamatera Cloud Servers 3/4
Autoscaling	✓ (best)	—
Load balancing	✓	✓
Object storage	✓	✓
Managed databases	✓	✓
Specs
Regions available	3	25 (best)
Monthly bandwidth	Not checked yet	5000 GB
Support level	Premium	Premium
Our review
Pros	Starts at €0.43/month with hourly pay-as-you-go billing Instance families cover development, general, compute, and memory workloads Includes autoscaling, load balancing, VPC, APIs, CLI, and Terraform	Starts at $4 per server per month Linux and Windows support with configurable resources Load balancers, private networks, snapshots, backups, and REST API
Cons	Coverage is limited to four regions Development instances include no SLA Autoscaling and instance groups are documented as Public Beta	Scaling is manual rather than automatic The $4 plan has a 1 TB monthly quota in Asia locations Object storage uses deployable MinIO software rather than a native service
Our verdict	Scaleway Instances provides cloud virtual machines for developers, teams, and organizations running applications, websites, databases, and other workloads. Its four instance families support shared or dedicated vCPUs, x86 or ARM… Read the review →	Kamatera Cloud Servers provides configurable virtual servers for personal users, developers, startups, small and midsize businesses, SaaS providers, and enterprises. Customers can choose CPU, RAM, NVMe storage, operating systems,… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• Scaleway Instances — where it wins

  • Starts at €0.43/month with hourly pay-as-you-go billing
  • Instance families cover development, general, compute, and memory workloads
  • Includes autoscaling, load balancing, VPC, APIs, CLI, and Terraform

  Where it doesn't

  • Coverage is limited to four regions
  • Development instances include no SLA
  • Autoscaling and instance groups are documented as Public Beta

• Kamatera Cloud Servers — where it wins

  • Starts at $4 per server per month
  • Linux and Windows support with configurable resources
  • Load balancers, private networks, snapshots, backups, and REST API

  Where it doesn't

  • Scaling is manual rather than automatic
  • The $4 plan has a 1 TB monthly quota in Asia locations
  • Object storage uses deployable MinIO software rather than a native service

• SIScaleway Instances8.0/10 · From €0.00

  Flexible European VM hosting with low entry pricing and four regions.

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• Kamatera Cloud Servers7.0/10 · From $4/mo · 30-day trial

  Flexible server configurations at a low entry price, with manual scaling and broad infrastructure controls.

  Visit KamateraFull verdict →