Aleph Cloud vs Scaleway

Up to 57% cheaper than Scaleway, with storage included and decentralization built in.

Start at $0.0143/h

TL;DR

Scaleway is the most credible European cloud and the closest match to Aleph Cloud in pricing, with strong sovereignty guarantees within French/EU jurisdiction. Aleph Cloud goes one step further: a fully decentralized, multi-jurisdiction network that can't be taken down by any single government or court order — at 19–57% lower cost.

Aleph Cloud vs Scaleway: pricing across 3 tiers

All prices are list, on-demand, with storage normalized. Tiers marked with * indicate the competitor doesn't offer an exact match — you pay for the next tier up.

Tier Aleph Cloud Scaleway You save
2 vCPU / 4 GB / 40 GB 🛡 Aleph Cloud VPS 2-core $20.81/mo $20.81 compute · included storage Scaleway PLAY2-NANO $25.61/mo $21.29 compute · $4.32 (block) storage −19%
4 vCPU / 8 GB / 80 GB 🛡 Aleph Cloud VPS 4-core $41.61/mo $41.61 compute · included storage Scaleway PLAY2-MICRO $51.21/mo $42.57 compute · $8.64 storage −19%
8 vCPU / 16 GB / 160 GB 🛡 Aleph Cloud VPS 8-core $83.22/mo $83.22 compute · included storage Scaleway PRO2-S (8c/32GB)* $191.32/mo $172.66 compute · $18.66 storage −57%

Why pick Aleph Cloud over Scaleway

Four reasons Scaleway customers switch to Aleph Cloud:

Up to 57% cheaper

Same vCPU, RAM, and SSD at a fraction of the price.

Multi-jurisdiction by design

Scaleway operates from France. Aleph's CRNs span multiple countries — no single jurisdiction controls your workload.

Storage included

Scaleway bills block storage separately. Aleph includes it.

Crypto-native

Pay in $ALEPH (+20% bonus), USDC, or fiat. Wallet authentication, no KYC.

When Scaleway might be the right choice

We're not going to pretend Scaleway is always wrong. Here are the cases where staying with Scaleway makes sense:

  • You need Scaleway-managed services like Kubernetes Kapsule, Object Storage with S3-compatible API at scale, or managed PostgreSQL/MongoDB
  • Your compliance requires data to stay within a single legal jurisdiction (France/EU) rather than a globally distributed network
  • You need bare metal servers or extremely high single-node specs (32+ vCPUs)

For everything else — standard Linux workloads, web apps, APIs, Docker, databases, AI inference — Aleph Cloud is the cheaper, more sovereign, and more flexible choice.

Migrating from Scaleway to Aleph Cloud

Most workloads migrate from Scaleway to Aleph Cloud in under an hour:

  1. Snapshot and export. Export your application code, environment variables, and database from your current Scaleway instance.
  2. Provision an Aleph Cloud VPS with comparable specs from app.aleph.cloud. Pick the same Linux distribution.
  3. Restore and verify. SSH in, install your dependencies, restore your data, point DNS, and you're live.

For complex workloads with managed services or custom networking, the Aleph Cloud documentation covers VPN setups, persistent volumes, and migration patterns.

Aleph Cloud vs Scaleway — FAQ

Is Aleph Cloud truly more sovereign than Scaleway?

Yes. Scaleway is a French company subject to French and EU law — a court order in France can compel Scaleway to act on your data. Aleph Cloud's CRN network is operated by independent providers across multiple jurisdictions, so no single legal entity has unilateral control. This is a structural sovereignty difference, not just a marketing claim.

Does Aleph Cloud have a S3-compatible object storage like Scaleway?

Aleph Cloud offers decentralized storage via IPFS and Aleph's own native storage primitives. It is not a drop-in S3 replacement — applications that depend on the exact AWS S3 API surface need an adapter layer or self-hosted MinIO on an Aleph VPS.

How do I migrate from Scaleway to Aleph Cloud?

1) Snapshot your Scaleway instance. 2) Provision an Aleph Cloud VPS with comparable specs. 3) Restore on the same Linux distro. Both providers offer standard Linux VPS, so migration is typically straightforward.

What about Scaleway's free tier?

Scaleway offers a small free tier; Aleph Cloud's pricing model is prepaid credit (no free tier, but $0.0143/h means you can run a 1-vCPU VPS for under $1/day). For experimentation, both providers are accessible.

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