Scaleway vs Vercel

Scaleway and Vercel represent two distinct tiers of PaaS deployment, separated by their underlying infrastructure targets. Scaleway scales from $0.10/mo to $1861.50/mo, providing heavy-duty RAM allocations between 2 GB and 256 GB. This is effectively a direct competitor to providers like Linode for users who need raw, high-memory container execution. Vercel targets the frontend and serverless market, with pricing capped at $20.00/mo for small 1 GB to 3 GB memory footprints. While Scaleway offers virtually unlimited instances and generous bandwidth, Vercel restricts egress to between 100 GB and 1000 GB.

• Scaleway charges $0.12/GB for additional storage, while Vercel’s storage overage sits slightly higher at $0.15/GB.
• Bandwidth overages reveal the most significant cost disparity: Scaleway charges $0.01/GB for egress, whereas Vercel penalizes traffic spikes at $0.15/GB.
• Scaleway includes a standard 20 GB disk base across their container instances, whereas Vercel prioritizes fast edge-cached content rather than persistent local disk capacity.
• Memory limits on Scaleway reach 256 GB for intensive backend processing, while Vercel’s platform is capped at 3 GB, reflecting its focus on lightweight serverless functions rather than long-running background workers.

Scaleway handles compute-heavy workloads and persistent state using hardware that feels closer to a traditional virtual machine environment. Vercel is built for high-concurrency web traffic and static site generation where the platform handles the complexity of global distribution. Choosing between them depends on whether your stack requires deep memory for data processing or a specialized environment for frontend delivery. Vercel’s egress costs make it prohibitive for bandwidth-heavy media apps, whereas Scaleway’s pricing structure is built to accommodate sustained, high-volume data transfer.