--- title: "Scaleway Alternative: CloudBlast vs Scaleway Prices (October 2026)" description: "Scaleway PLAY2-NANO costs €20.10 a month, CloudBlast VMA21 €4.80. Specs, price per vCPU, traffic, hourly billing and DDoS compared, checked October 9, 2026." url: "https://cloudblast.io/scaleway-alternative" language: "en-US" --- Scaleway alternative # Scaleway alternative: CloudBlast vs Scaleway The closest Scaleway plan to a 2 vCPU, 4 GB server is PLAY2-NANO (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM) at €20.10 a month. CloudBlast's VMA21 (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 30 GB NVMe) costs €4.80 a month, 76% less, billed by the hour with DDoS protection included. Prices checked on October 9, 2026 [Scaleway pricing page](https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/virtual-instances/) [Deploy a VMA21](https://console.cloudblast.io/create/server) ## Monthly price, comparable plans CloudBlast VMA21 against Scaleway PLAY2-NANO, the closest plans by vCPU and RAM. Euro prices excluding VAT, checked on October 9, 2026. [Get started](https://console.cloudblast.io/create/server) ### €4.80 ### €20.10 ## CloudBlast vs Scaleway: specs and prices The Scaleway plan closest to 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM against the smallest CloudBlast plan with at least the same vCPU and RAM. List prices excluding VAT, checked on October 9, 2026. | Feature | CloudBlast | Scaleway | | --- | --- | --- | | Plan | VMA21 | PLAY2-NANO | | vCPU | 2 | 2 | | RAM | 4 GB | 4 GB | | Storage | 30 GB NVMe | Not published | | Price per month | €4.80 (€0.0077/h) | €20.10 | | Price per vCPU | €2.40 | €10.05 | | Price per GB of RAM | €1.20 | €5.03 | | Monthly traffic | 5 TB (1 TB in Hong Kong) | Unmetered | | Port speed | 10 Gbps | 0.2 Gbps | | CPU | AMD EPYC | AMD EPYC | | Hourly billing | Yes | Yes | | Minimum term | None | None | | DDoS protection | Included | Not published | | IPv4 address included | Yes | No | | IPv6 | Yes, a /64 per server | Yes | | Datacenter locations | 4 | 3 | ### Cheapest plans Each provider's lowest-priced regular plan, checked on October 9, 2026. | Provider | Plan | Specs | Price per month | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | CloudBlast | VMA11 | 1 vCPU, 3 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe | €3.60 | | Scaleway | STARDUST1-S | 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | €0.43 | ## Where CloudBlast is the better choice - 76% cheaper for a comparable server: €4.80 against €20.10 a month. - An IPv4 address is included. Scaleway charges for it separately. - A 10 Gbps port on every plan. ## Where Scaleway is the better choice - Unmetered traffic. - Managed databases. - Managed Kubernetes. - S3-compatible object storage. - Managed load balancers. - Plans with dedicated CPU cores. - Bare metal servers. - GPU servers. - An official Terraform provider. - A longer track record, founded in 1999. - A company headquartered in the EU. ## CloudBlast vs Scaleway: common questions ### Is CloudBlast cheaper than Scaleway? Yes. For a comparable server, CloudBlast's VMA21 costs €4.80 a month and Scaleway's PLAY2-NANO costs €20.10, so CloudBlast is 76% cheaper (list prices checked on October 9, 2026). ### What is the CloudBlast equivalent of Scaleway's PLAY2-NANO? CloudBlast's VMA21: 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 30 GB NVMe, €4.80 a month or €0.0077 an hour, with 5 TB of traffic a month outside Hong Kong. ### Does Scaleway bill by the hour? Yes, Scaleway bills by the hour. So does CloudBlast, on every plan, capped at the monthly price. ### Does Scaleway include DDoS protection? Scaleway does not publish it. CloudBlast includes always-on mitigation with up to 2.5 Tbps of scrubbing capacity on every plan. ### How do I move from Scaleway to CloudBlast? Deploy a CloudBlast server in the location closest to your users, copy your data across with rsync or a backup restore, test it, then point your DNS at the new IP. With hourly billing, running both servers side by side for a few days costs very little. ## How we compared Prices are the list prices on Scaleway's own pricing page on October 9, 2026, for its standard Linux VPS, excluding VAT. We compare the plan closest to 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM, and the cheapest plan, against the smallest CloudBlast plan with at least the same vCPU and RAM. Prices in other currencies are converted to euro at the European Central Bank reference rate of October 8, 2026. CloudBlast prices are from cloudblast.io/pricing. Where a provider advertises an introductory price that needs a long prepayment, we compare its regular price and show the introductory one next to it. Spotted a price that has changed? [Tell us and we will update this page.](https://cloudblast.io/contact) ### Sources - [scaleway.com/en/pricing/virtual-instances/](https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/virtual-instances/) - [scaleway.com/en/pricing/network/](https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/network/) - [scaleway.com/en/pricing/storage/](https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/storage/) - [scaleway.com/en/docs/instances/reference-content/instances-datasheet/](https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/instances/reference-content/instances-datasheet/) - [scaleway.com/en/docs/instances/reference-content/development/](https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/instances/reference-content/development/) - [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaleway](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaleway) - [cloudblast.io/pricing](https://cloudblast.io/pricing) Scaleway alternative ## We'll help you migrate to our amazing cloud. We'll seamlessly migrate your website to our outstanding cloud platform, ensuring a smooth transition with zero downtime and superior performance. 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