Gcore vs Scaleway.

vps pricing compared · prices as of 16 Sept 2026

On today's data, Gcore undercuts Scaleway on memory pricing, with a median RAM price of $4.89/GB against $5.97/GB. The cheapest way in is Scaleway at $0.51/mo (STARDUST1-S). Gcore counters with broader reach: 8 locations vs 4.

At 4 GB of RAM the cheaper of the two is Gcore g1s-shared-2-4 at $3.51/mo, against Scaleway at $17.01/mo, checked 16 Sept 2026.

Gcoreall plans →

• Cheapest · best value

  g2s-shared-1-1-25 · 1 vCPU · 1 GB

  1 vCPU · 1 GB · no disk

  $0.82/moView at Gcore ↗

Scalewayall plans →

• Cheapest · best value

  STARDUST1-S

  1 vCPU · 1 GB · 10 GB SSD

  $0.51/moView at Scaleway ↗

compare the two best-value plans side by side →

MetricGcoreScaleway

Plans tracked9059

Cheapest plan$0.82/mo$0.51/mo

Median $/GB RAM$4.89/GB$5.97/GB

Avg value score47/10026/100

Locations84

Dedicated-vCPU plans7624

NVMe share0%0%

Unmetered bandwidth0% of plans100% of plans

Cheapest plan at each RAM tier

≥ 2 GB RAM

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Gcorewins

g1s-shared-1-2 · 1 vCPU · 2 GB

1 vCPU · 2 GB · no disk · $1.75/mo

Scaleway

DEV1-S

2 vCPU · 2 GB · 20 GB SSD · $7.56/mo

≥ 4 GB RAM

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Gcorewins

g1s-shared-2-4 · 2 vCPU · 4 GB

2 vCPU · 4 GB · no disk · $3.51/mo

Scaleway

DEV1-M

3 vCPU · 4 GB · 40 GB SSD · $17.01/mo

≥ 8 GB RAM

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Gcorewins

g1-standard-2-8 · 2 vCPU · 8 GB

2 vCPU · 8 GB · no disk · $25.57/mo

Scaleway

BASIC2-A2C-8G

2 vCPU · 8 GB · no disk · $29.07/mo

Top value plans from each

Gcore

• g2s-shared-1-1-25 · 1 vCPU · 1 GBvalue 100/100$0.82
• g1s-shared-1-0.5 · 1 vCPU · 0.5 GBvalue 100/100$0.88
• g1s-shared-1-1 · 1 vCPU · 1 GBvalue 99/100$1.17
• g1s-shared-1-2 · 1 vCPU · 2 GBvalue 99/100$1.75
• g1s-shared-2-2 · 2 vCPU · 2 GBvalue 98/100$2.33

Scaleway

• STARDUST1-Svalue 100/100$0.51
• DEV1-Svalue 84/100$7.56
• DEV1-Mvalue 77/100$17.01
• PLAY2-PICOvalue 66/100$12.02
• DEV1-Lvalue 66/100$36.08

Prices exclude VAT, fetched 16 Sept 2026 from each provider's own API or public price page. Gcore data: Live web · VM flavor table in the gcore.com/pricing/cloud payload (EUR excl. VAT, lowest-priced region). Scaleway data: Public API · api.scaleway.com/instance/v1/zones/{zone}/products/servers.