How much does Scaleway BASIC2-A12C-48G cost?

$147.37 a month excl. VAT, billed as €131.91, which is $3.07 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Scaleway's own site.

What do you get with Scaleway BASIC2-A12C-48G?

12 shared vCPU, 48 GB of RAM, no disk included (volumes are billed separately) and unmetered traffic.

Where does Scaleway BASIC2-A12C-48G run?

In 2 locations: Paris, FR, Amsterdam, NL.

How does Scaleway BASIC2-A12C-48G compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 17% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 42% less than the $5.25 typical across them. Its price leaves out the disk, so the rankings leave it out too.

Scaleway BASIC2-A12C-48G.

Prices checked 31 Oct

Scaleway BASIC2-A12C-48G costs $147.37 a month for 12 vCPU, 48 GB of RAM and no disk, cheaper than 17% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

BASIC2 (ARM)shared vCPUunmetered traffic

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Price

Scaleway

$147.37/mo

$3.07 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 17% of the 527 plans we track. You are billed €131.91 a month.

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Value

55/100

hardware per dollar

Its price leaves out the disk, so it is not ranked against plans that include one.

BASIC2 (ARM)shared vCPUunmetered traffic

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What you get

RAM: 48 GBmore than 91% of plans
vCPU: 12 sharedmore than 87% of plans
Disk: none, volumes extra
Traffic: Unmetered

2 locations

ARM (arm64) · 1200 Mbps internet bandwidth · no bundled disk; Block Storage billed separately · monthly estimated from hourly rate (×730), excl. VAT

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How it scores

Value 55/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.47 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track. This price leaves out the disk, so it is not held against plans that include one.

RAM, 48 GB: 48.0
vCPU, 12: 18.0
Disk, none included: 0.0
Traffic, unmetered, counted as 10 TB: 3.0
69.0 points for $147.37: 0.47 a dollar

1 point per GB of RAM, 1.5 per vCPU, 1 per 25 GB of disk up to 500 GB (SSD × 0.8, HDD × 0.4), and 0.3 per TB of traffic up to 20 TB.

Or a whole server

At 48 GB a dedicated server is worth a look: the cores, disks and port are all yours, not shared. One with 8 to 15 cores starts at $65 a month over the first year, setup fee included. 119 servers from 6 providers. every server with 8 to 15 cores

Models it can run

The largest two per family that fit 48 GB with room to spare, on its 12 shared vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Qwen3 32B, about 1.2–2.4 tok/s Qwen2.5-Coder 32B, about 1.2–2.4 tok/s DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 32B, about 1.2–2.4 tok/s Gemma 3 27B, about 1.4–2.9 tok/s Mistral Small 3.2 24B, about 1.6–3.3 tok/s Devstral Small 24B, about 1.7–3.4 tok/s gpt-oss-20b (MoE), about 5.4–11 tok/s DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B, about 2.7–5.4 tok/s

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Frequently asked

How much does Scaleway BASIC2-A12C-48G cost?: $147.37 a month excl. VAT, billed as €131.91, which is $3.07 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Scaleway's own site.
What do you get with Scaleway BASIC2-A12C-48G?: 12 shared vCPU, 48 GB of RAM, no disk included (volumes are billed separately) and unmetered traffic.
Where does Scaleway BASIC2-A12C-48G run?: In 2 locations: Paris, FR, Amsterdam, NL.
How does Scaleway BASIC2-A12C-48G compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 17% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 42% less than the $5.25 typical across them. Its price leaves out the disk, so the rankings leave it out too.