Scaleway Virtual Instances vs Leaseweb Public Cloud

Scaleway Virtual Instances8.8Visit Leaseweb Public Cloud7.7Visit

Higher score Scaleway Virtual Instances #2 in VPS Hosting in Europe 8.8/10 From €0.43/mo ✓ 1 of 1 features Visit Scaleway

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Leaseweb Public Cloud #4 in VPS Hosting in Europe 7.7/10 30-day trial ✓ 0 of 1 features Visit Leaseweb

• Scaleway Virtual Instances fits best

  Low-cost European VM deployments

• Leaseweb Public Cloud fits best

  Businesses needing flexible cloud compute

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Side by side

Feature	Scaleway Virtual Instances 8.8/10 Visit ↗	Leaseweb Public Cloud 7.7/10 Visit ↗
At a glance
Editor score	8.8	7.7
Ranking	#2 in VPS Hosting in Europe	#4 in VPS Hosting in Europe
Best for	Low-cost European VM deployments	Businesses needing flexible cloud compute
Pricing model	Paid	Paid
Starting price	Not published	Not published
Free plan	—	—
Free trial	—	—
Deployment	Cloud, Self-hosted	Cloud
Platforms	Web	Web
Support	Tickets, Phone, Community, Docs · 24/7	Live chat, Email
Integrations	5 integrations	2 integrations
Built for	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise	Small business, Mid-market, Enterprise
Features Scaleway Virtual Instances 1/1 · Leaseweb Public Cloud 0/1
Root access	✓ (best)	Not published
Specs
vCPU cores	Not published	Not published
RAM	Not published	Not published
NVMe storage	Not published	Not published
Bandwidth	Not published	Not published
European locations	Not published	Not published
Managed service	Not published	Not published
Our review
Pros	STARDUST1-S starts at €0.43 per instance per month. VM families cover development, general-purpose, compute- and memory-optimized workloads. Manage infrastructure through the API, Terraform or Scaleway CLI.	Four instance families, including GPU-optimized compute Autoscaling, load balancing, private networking and security groups REST API, CLI, Terraform provider and AWS EC2-compatible APIs
Cons	The STARDUST1-S compute price excludes storage and attached public IPv4 charges. The listed regions are limited to Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw. The lowest-priced listed instance has 1 vCPU and 1 GB RAM.	Instances are multi-tenant rather than dedicated by default No managed database service is included Trial access excludes instances in the Netherlands and Japan
Our verdict	Scaleway Virtual Instances are cloud virtual machines for applications, development environments, internal tools, websites, databases and compute-intensive workloads. They suit teams seeking European deployment locations and a choice of VM… Read the review →	Leaseweb Public Cloud provides virtual machines for businesses running web applications, application hosting, databases, development and testing, and machine-learning workloads. It supports general-purpose, compute-optimized,… Read the review →

Strengths and trade-offs

• Scaleway Virtual Instances — where it wins

  • STARDUST1-S starts at €0.43 per instance per month.
  • VM families cover development, general-purpose, compute- and memory-optimized workloads.
  • Manage infrastructure through the API, Terraform or Scaleway CLI.

  Where it doesn't

  • The STARDUST1-S compute price excludes storage and attached public IPv4 charges.
  • The listed regions are limited to Paris, Amsterdam and Warsaw.
  • The lowest-priced listed instance has 1 vCPU and 1 GB RAM.

• Leaseweb Public Cloud — where it wins

  • Four instance families, including GPU-optimized compute
  • Autoscaling, load balancing, private networking and security groups
  • REST API, CLI, Terraform provider and AWS EC2-compatible APIs

  Where it doesn't

  • Instances are multi-tenant rather than dedicated by default
  • No managed database service is included
  • Trial access excludes instances in the Netherlands and Japan

• Scaleway Virtual Instances8.8/10 · From €0.43/mo

  A low-cost European VM option with several instance families and infrastructure-management tools.

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• Leaseweb Public Cloud7.7/10 · 30-day trial

  Flexible European cloud compute with autoscaling, APIs and hourly or monthly billing.

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