Oracle vs Scaleway
Scaleway is cheaper in all 2 categories where both compete.
Category by category
Each provider's cheapest published option in each category, on the axis that category is billed on. A dash means they do not sell into it.
| Category | Oracle | Rate | Scaleway | Rate | Cheaper |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloud compute & VPS | Oracle Cloud Compute | $0.010 | Scaleway Instances | $0.0060 | Scaleway1.7× cheaper |
| Object storage | Oracle Object Storage | $0.025 | Scaleway Object Storage | $0.018 | Scaleway1.5× cheaper |
| Managed databases | — | — | Scaleway Managed Database | $13.00 | only one competes |
About each provider
Oracle
Headquartered in US · 2 priced services
Oracle Cloud's headline is an Always Free tier that is genuinely generous by industry standards, plus egress rates well below AWS and Azure.
Scaleway
Headquartered in FR · 3 priced services
A French cloud with EU data residency as its main pitch, covering compute, object storage, and managed databases at rates between Hetzner and the hyperscalers.
Questions
- Is Oracle or Scaleway cheaper in 2026?
- Scaleway is cheaper in all 2 categories where both compete. Picking a provider on an aggregate "cheaper" verdict is usually a mistake — what matters is which of them is cheaper in the categories you actually buy.
- What does Oracle offer that Scaleway does not?
- Nothing in this dataset — every category Oracle sells into, Scaleway sells into as well.
- What does Scaleway offer that Oracle does not?
- In this dataset: Managed databases. Oracle has no priced equivalent in that category.
- Should I use both?
- Often the cheapest answer, and the table above shows where the seams are. Splitting workloads across providers costs you cross-provider data transfer and a second bill to reason about, so it pays off when the per-category gap is large and the traffic between them is small.