Scaleway
by Scaleway SAS
At a glance
French cloud provider whose platform includes NVIDIA GPU instances, managed Kubernetes through Kapsule, and EU-hosted Generative APIs compatible with the OpenAI SDK.
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- Licence
- Not recorded
- Category
- Platforms & Infrastructure
- Business model
- Paid
- Availability
- Global
- Launched
- 2024
Overview
Scaleway SAS is a French cloud provider headquartered in Paris (8 rue de la Ville-l'Évêque, 75008 Paris) and part of the Iliad group; it was founded in 1999 by Xavier Niel. Its AI offering includes NVIDIA L4, L40S, and H100 GPU instances and managed Kubernetes through Kapsule. The company's EU-hosted Generative APIs are compatible with the OpenAI SDK and entered public beta in November 2024, while Managed Inference supports bringing your own model. Data is hosted in European data centers, and Generative APIs are billed per million tokens on a pay-as-you-go basis or through dedicated deployment.
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Key features
- NVIDIA L4, L40S, and H100 GPU instances
- Managed Kubernetes through Kapsule
- EU-hosted Generative APIs compatible with the OpenAI SDK
- Managed Inference with bring-your-own-model support
- Data hosted in European data centers
Use cases
- Running AI training and inference on European-hosted GPU infrastructure
- Deploying containerized workloads on managed Kubernetes
- Adding hosted language models to applications through OpenAI-compatible APIs
Pricing
Services are billed by usage; Generative APIs are billed per million tokens on a pay-as-you-go basis or through dedicated deployment, and prices are published on the Scaleway website.
Record details
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Links, dates and provenance
- Record updated
- 2026-10-09
- Pricing
- www.scaleway.com ↗
- Documentation
- www.scaleway.com ↗
- Founded
- 1999
- Headquarters
- FR
- Canonical URL
- https://globalaiproductindex.com/products/scaleway/
Selection profile
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- Tasks it fits
- Running models yourself
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- Web app
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- Web
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- Vendor cloud
Vendor-hosted product; no self-hosted option is recorded.
Suggest a correction - Works offline
- Not recorded
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- Global
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Suggest a correction - Public API
- Yes
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- proprietary
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- Not recorded
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- Subscription Free allowance: No Subscription required: Yes
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Where each value comes from
- Tasks it fits
- Our inference
- How you use it
- Our inference
- Runs on
- Our inference
- Where it runs
- Our inference
- Works offline
- Our inference
- Official service region
- Our inference
- Public API
- Verified 2026-10-09 www.scaleway.com ↗
- Licence
- Our inference
- Commercial use
- Our inference
- Interface languages
- Unknown
Key facts and their evidence
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API: Public API documented Verified 2026-10-09 www.scaleway.com ↗
Applies to: As stated on scaleway.com on 2026-10-09
Matched on the vendor page: “u Search the docs Ask our AI Log in Sign up Close menu Foremost Links API Documentation Tutorials Use cases Troubleshooting Hub FAQs Changelog Management & Governance Acc”
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Frequently asked questions
Where is Scaleway headquartered?
Scaleway SAS is headquartered in Paris, France (8 rue de la Ville-l'Évêque, 75008 Paris), and is part of the Iliad group.
Are Scaleway's Generative APIs OpenAI-compatible?
Yes. The Generative APIs are compatible with the OpenAI SDK and entered public beta in November 2024.
Where is Scaleway data hosted?
Scaleway hosts data in European data centers.
What does Scaleway not record?
This record does not confirm several fields: pricing, licence, regional availability and supported languages had no supporting statement on the vendor pages fetched.
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Sources
- Official website ↗
- Legal notice ↗
- Scaleway launches Generative APIs ↗
- Scaleway Product Documentation | Scaleway Documentation ↗
This record was last reviewed on 2026-10-09.
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