How much does Scaleway BASIC2-A8C-16G cost?

$84.33 a month excl. VAT, billed as €75.48, which is $5.27 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Scaleway's own site.

What do you get with Scaleway BASIC2-A8C-16G?

8 shared vCPU, 16 GB of RAM, no disk included (volumes are billed separately) and unmetered traffic.

Where does Scaleway BASIC2-A8C-16G run?

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

How does Scaleway BASIC2-A8C-16G compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 37% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs the same as the $5.25 typical across them. Its price leaves out the disk, so the rankings leave it out too.

Scaleway BASIC2-A8C-16G.

Prices checked 31 Oct

Scaleway BASIC2-A8C-16G costs $84.33 a month for 8 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and no disk, cheaper than 37% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

BASIC2 (ARM)shared vCPUunmetered traffic

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Price

Scaleway

$84.33/mo

$5.27 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 37% of the 527 plans we track. You are billed €75.48 a month.

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Value

34/100

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-8-16 vs Gcore g1-standard-8-16 vs Gcore g2-standard-8-16 or any plan

What you get

RAM: 16 GBmore than 51% of plans
vCPU: 8 sharedmore than 70% of plans
Disk: none, volumes extra
Traffic: Unmetered

2 locations

ARM (arm64) · 800 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 34/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.37 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, 16 GB: 16.0
vCPU, 8: 12.0
Disk, none included: 0.0
Traffic, unmetered, counted as 10 TB: 3.0
31.0 points for $84.33: 0.37 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 16 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 16 GB with room to spare, on its 8 shared vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Qwen3 14B, about 2.1–4.3 tok/s DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B, about 2.1–4.3 tok/s Phi-4 14B, about 2.2–4.3 tok/s Mistral Nemo 12B, about 2.6–5.2 tok/s Gemma 3 12B, about 2.6–5.2 tok/s Qwen3 8B, about 3.9–7.7 tok/s DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B, about 3.9–7.7 tok/s Llama 3.1 8B, about 3.9–7.9 tok/s

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Frequently asked

How much does Scaleway BASIC2-A8C-16G cost?: $84.33 a month excl. VAT, billed as €75.48, which is $5.27 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Scaleway's own site.
What do you get with Scaleway BASIC2-A8C-16G?: 8 shared vCPU, 16 GB of RAM, no disk included (volumes are billed separately) and unmetered traffic.
Where does Scaleway BASIC2-A8C-16G run?: In 2 locations: Paris, FR, Amsterdam, NL.
How does Scaleway BASIC2-A8C-16G compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 37% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs the same as the $5.25 typical across them. Its price leaves out the disk, so the rankings leave it out too.