# Scaleway

French cloud provider whose platform includes NVIDIA GPU instances, managed Kubernetes through Kapsule, and EU-hosted Generative APIs compatible with the OpenAI SDK.

- Company: Scaleway SAS
- Category: Platforms & Infrastructure
- Business model: Paid
- Availability: global
- Launched: 2024
- Tags: cloud, gpu, inference, kubernetes, europe
- Website: https://www.scaleway.com
- Canonical URL: https://globalaiproductindex.com/products/scaleway/
- Record updated: 2026-09-10

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.

## 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.

## FAQ

**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.

## Sources

- [Official website](https://www.scaleway.com)
- [Legal notice](https://www.scaleway.com/en/legal-notice/)
- [Scaleway launches Generative APIs](https://www.scaleway.com/en/news/scaleway-launches-generative-apis-a-drop-in-alternative-to-openai-apis-100percent-made-in-europe/)

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Data from the [Global AI Product Index](https://globalaiproductindex.com/), licensed CC BY 4.0.