Hetzner vs Scaleway

• Hetzner provides a fixed, generous egress quota of 20000 GB across its tier, whereas Scaleway scales bandwidth from 750 GB up to unlimited, which can lead to a $0.01/GB overage charge if you undersize your plan.
• Storage pricing favors Hetzner, which charges $0.06/GB for additional disk space, exactly half the $0.12/GB rate seen at Scaleway.
• Hetzner’s entry-level pricing starts at $7.09/mo for 2 GB of RAM, while Scaleway allows for a granular entry point at $0.10/mo for similar 2 GB configurations, though Scaleway’s high-end 256 GB RAM instances push costs up to $1861.50/mo.
• Hetzner clusters hardware around 2 vCPU to 16 vCPU configurations, while Scaleway targets a wider range up to 48 vCPU cores, often utilizing varying generations of AMD EPYC processors compared to Hetzner’s typical standard-issue x86 setups.

Hetzner maintains a predictable pricing model that appeals to teams running consistent, high-bandwidth workloads like media servers or large-scale file distribution. Their flat rate for egress eliminates the variable cost risk that often plagues infrastructure budgets. Because they include substantial local storage starting at 40 GB, most standard web applications will never trigger their storage overage fees. The hardware is reliable, but users must be prepared to manage their own kernel updates and disk partitioning without vendor assistance.

Scaleway offers a more flexible environment for developers who need to scale vertically into massive memory footprints, reaching 256 GB of RAM. While their base storage starts lower at 20 GB, the ability to spin up high-core-count machines makes them a competitor to larger cloud providers for heavy processing tasks. Choosing between these two comes down to whether your workload benefits from the massive, free egress buffers provided by Hetzner or the high-memory, high-vCPU capacity available on Scaleway’s more expensive tiers.