How much does Scaleway BASIC2-A2C-8G cost?

$28.14 a month excl. VAT, billed as €25.19, which is $3.52 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Scaleway's own site.

What do you get with Scaleway BASIC2-A2C-8G?

2 shared vCPU, 8 GB of RAM, no disk included (volumes are billed separately) and unmetered traffic.

Where does Scaleway BASIC2-A2C-8G run?

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

How does Scaleway BASIC2-A2C-8G compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 68% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 33% less than the $5.25 typical across them. Its price leaves out the disk, so the rankings leave it out too.

Scaleway BASIC2-A2C-8G.

Prices checked 31 Oct

Scaleway BASIC2-A2C-8G costs $28.14 a month for 2 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and no disk, cheaper than 68% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

BASIC2 (ARM)shared vCPUunmetered traffic

Compare withvs Gcore a1-standard-2-8 vs Gcore g1-standard-2-8 vs Gcore g2-standard-2-8 or any plan

Price

Scaleway

$28.14/mo

$3.52 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 68% of the 527 plans we track. You are billed €25.19 a month.

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Value

59/100

hardware per dollar

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

BASIC2 (ARM)shared vCPUunmetered traffic

Compare withvs Gcore a1-standard-2-8 vs Gcore g1-standard-2-8 vs Gcore g2-standard-2-8 or any plan

What you get

RAM: 8 GBmore than 31% of plans
vCPU: 2 sharedmore than 14% of plans
Disk: none, volumes extra
Traffic: Unmetered

2 locations

ARM (arm64) · 200 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 59/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.50 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, 8 GB: 8.0
vCPU, 2: 3.0
Disk, none included: 0.0
Traffic, unmetered, counted as 10 TB: 3.0
14.0 points for $28.14: 0.50 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.

Models it can run

The largest two per family that fit 8 GB with room to spare, on its 2 shared vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B, about 1–2.1 tok/s Gemma 3 4B, about 1.8–3.7 tok/s Qwen3 4B, about 2–3.9 tok/s Phi-4-mini 3.8B, about 2.1–4.1 tok/s Llama 3.2 3B, about 2.5–4.9 tok/s Llama 3.2 1B, about 6.4–13 tok/s Gemma 3 1B, about 7.9–16 tok/s

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Frequently asked

How much does Scaleway BASIC2-A2C-8G cost?: $28.14 a month excl. VAT, billed as €25.19, which is $3.52 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Scaleway's own site.
What do you get with Scaleway BASIC2-A2C-8G?: 2 shared vCPU, 8 GB of RAM, no disk included (volumes are billed separately) and unmetered traffic.
Where does Scaleway BASIC2-A2C-8G run?: In 2 locations: Paris, FR, Amsterdam, NL.
How does Scaleway BASIC2-A2C-8G compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 68% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 33% less than the $5.25 typical across them. Its price leaves out the disk, so the rankings leave it out too.