Scaleway Managed Database pricing

EU-resident managed Postgres and MySQL with high-availability options, priced below the hyperscalers on both instance hours and storage.

List prices checked

By Scaleway · Managed databases

Rate card

What Scaleway charges, by billing axis.

AxisPriceApplies to
Entry plan$13.00/moCheapest paid plan or typical entry configuration
Storage$0.042/GB-moStandard or hot storage class

Source: Scaleway pricing (May 2026). Published list prices only — committed-use discounts, regional variation, and per-request charges are not included. Not yet independently re-checked against the vendor’s page.

What it costs per month

Scaleway Managed Database billed against three workload profiles, using the rates above. Every line shows its arithmetic.

Side project

A personal site or small app with modest traffic, a few gigabytes of assets, and one small always-on process.

$14/mo

  • Entry plan at $13/month$13
  • 20 GB at $0.0417/GB-month$0.83

Growing SaaS

A funded product serving a few thousand daily users, with an image-heavy frontend and two application servers.

$34/mo

  • Entry plan at $13/month$13
  • 500 GB at $0.0417/GB-month$21

Media-heavy site

A publisher or video product where delivery dominates the bill and compute is almost an afterthought.

$96/mo

  • Entry plan at $13/month$13
  • 2 TB at $0.0417/GB-month$83

Scaleway Managed Database vs the alternatives

The closest managed databases on price, with the difference on managed databases's headline axis.

ServiceEntry planvs Scaleway Managed DatabaseCompare
Azure Database for PostgreSQL$12.411× cheaperHead to head
AWS RDS for PostgreSQL$12.401× cheaperHead to head
Upstash Redis$10.001.3× cheaperHead to head
Google Cloud SQL$9.371.4× cheaperHead to head
MongoDB Atlas$9.001.4× cheaperHead to head
Turso$8.251.6× cheaperHead to head

Questions about pricing

How much does Scaleway Managed Database cost in 2026?
Scaleway Managed Database charges $13.00 per month for the entry plan, per Scaleway's published pricing page. There is no free tier. The tables above break the rate card down by axis and model it against three concrete workloads.
Does Scaleway Managed Database have a free tier?
No. Scaleway Managed Database bills from the first unit of usage. Several competitors in the same category do publish a free allowance — the rankings linked below list them.
Are these Scaleway Managed Database prices current?
They were checked against Scaleway's official pricing page and stamped with that date, which is shown at the top of this page and next to every table. Vendors change list prices without notice — the source link is there so you can confirm before you commit.

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