How much does Scaleway BASIC3-X4C-16G cost?

$96.60 a month excl. VAT, billed as €86.47, which is $6.04 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Scaleway's own site.

What do you get with Scaleway BASIC3-X4C-16G?

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

Where does Scaleway BASIC3-X4C-16G run?

In 3 locations: Paris, FR, Amsterdam, NL, Milan, IT.

How does Scaleway BASIC3-X4C-16G compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 31% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 15% more than the $5.25 typical across them. Its price leaves out the disk, so the rankings leave it out too.

Scaleway BASIC3-X4C-16G.

Prices checked 31 Oct

Scaleway BASIC3-X4C-16G costs $96.60 a month for 4 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and no disk, cheaper than 31% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

BASIC3shared vCPUunmetered traffic

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Price

Scaleway

$96.60/mo

$6.04 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 31% of the 527 plans we track. You are billed €86.47 a month.

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Value

18/100

hardware per dollar

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

BASIC3shared vCPUunmetered traffic

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What you get

RAM: 16 GBmore than 51% of plans
vCPU: 4 sharedmore than 40% of plans
Disk: none, volumes extra
Traffic: Unmetered

3 locations

700 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 18/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.26 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, 4: 6.0
Disk, none included: 0.0
Traffic, unmetered, counted as 10 TB: 3.0
25.0 points for $96.60: 0.26 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 4 to 7 cores starts at $21.67 a month over the first year, setup fee included. 171 servers from 6 providers. every server with 4 to 7 cores

Models it can run

The largest two per family that fit 16 GB with room to spare, on its 4 shared vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Qwen3 14B, about 1.1–2.1 tok/s DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B, about 1.1–2.1 tok/s Phi-4 14B, about 1.1–2.2 tok/s Mistral Nemo 12B, about 1.3–2.6 tok/s Gemma 3 12B, about 1.3–2.6 tok/s Qwen3 8B, about 1.9–3.9 tok/s DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B, about 1.9–3.9 tok/s Llama 3.1 8B, about 2–3.9 tok/s

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Frequently asked

How much does Scaleway BASIC3-X4C-16G cost?: $96.60 a month excl. VAT, billed as €86.47, which is $6.04 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Scaleway's own site.
What do you get with Scaleway BASIC3-X4C-16G?: 4 shared vCPU, 16 GB of RAM, no disk included (volumes are billed separately) and unmetered traffic.
Where does Scaleway BASIC3-X4C-16G run?: In 3 locations: Paris, FR, Amsterdam, NL, Milan, IT.
How does Scaleway BASIC3-X4C-16G compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 31% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 15% more than the $5.25 typical across them. Its price leaves out the disk, so the rankings leave it out too.