ScalewayBASIC2-A8C-16G
BASIC2 (ARM)
Scaleway BASIC2-A8C-16G costs $87.10/mo for 8 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and no disk, cheaper than 35% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$87.10/mo
billed €75.48/mo
$0.1193/hour
$5.44 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 35% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 16 GB> 53% of offers
- vCPU
- 8 shared> 71% of offers
- Disk
- none included · volumes extra> 0% of offers
- Bandwidth
- Unmetered
ARM (arm64) · 800 Mbps internet bandwidth · no bundled disk; Block Storage billed separately · monthly estimated from hourly rate (×730), excl. VAT
Value score
35/100
- RAM · 16 GB
- 16.0
- vCPU · 8
- 12.0
- Disk · none included
- 0.0
- Traffic · unmetered, as 10 TB
- 3.0
- 31.0 points ÷ $87.10
- 0.36 per $
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.
The score ranks 0.36 points per dollar against the 524 tracked VPS plans, whose median is 0.43. A higher score means more machine for the money. This price leaves out the disk, so the score can't be compared with plans that include one.
Regions · 2
Data provenance
Scaleway · Public API · api.scaleway.com/instance/v1/zones/{zone}/products/servers
Fetched 16 Sept 2026
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Where this sits in the market
At $87.10/mo, BASIC2-A8C-16G is cheaper than 35% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 16 GB of RAM at $5.44/GB, right at the $5.42/GB market median. Its price leaves out the disk, which is billed separately, so our rankings skip it. It is the 25th cheapest of Scaleway's 59 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen3 14B~2.1–4.3 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B~2.1–4.3 tok/s
- Phi-4 14B~2.2–4.3 tok/s
- Mistral Nemo 12B~2.6–5.2 tok/s
- Gemma 3 12B~2.6–5.2 tok/s
- Qwen3 8B~3.9–7.7 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B~3.9–7.7 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B~3.9–7.9 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 16 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 8 shared vCPU.
