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OVHcloud vs Scaleway
Side-by-side comparison of OVHcloud and Scaleway for single-tenant LLM hosting. Deployment options, compliance, pricing, and operational fit compared.
OVHcloud
AI Endpoints is a serverless per-token API (40+ models) with zero data retention beyond billing data; AI Deploy runs customer containers and models. Certifications page lists SecNumCloud (ANSSI), BSI C5, ISO 27001 and GDPR compliance. Parent OVH Groupe SA is registered in Lille, France. No explicit AI-product data-residency guarantee found at review.
Scaleway
Managed Inference runs models on dedicated GPUs at fixed hourly rates (e.g. Llama 3.1-8b at 0.93 EUR/hour) inside a VPC; prompts and responses are stated as stored only in Europe. Scaleway SAS is registered in Paris, France (legal notice). Security page says the SecNumCloud qualification process was entered in January 2025; not yet listed as qualified.
From the data
Key differences
- Category Both are EU sovereign offerings.
- Compliance Both document ISO 27001 and GDPR DPA. Only OVHcloud documents C5 and SecNumCloud.
- Data residency OVHcloud's residency guarantee is not verified; Scaleway has a verified residency guarantee.
- Jurisdiction Both parent companies are under FR jurisdiction.
- Pricing OVHcloud: Per 1M tokens (AI Endpoints, input/output priced separately) (published pricing). Scaleway: Per-hour dedicated GPU (Managed Inference); per token (Generative APIs) (published pricing).
Generated from the verified vendor data below; sources and dates on each vendor profile.
Side by side
Capabilities compared
| OVHcloud | Scaleway | |
|---|---|---|
| Category | EU sovereign | EU sovereign |
| Deployment models | Serverless APIManaged model deployment | Serverless APIDedicated GPU inference |
| Regions | Europe | Europe |
| Compliance | ISO 27001C5SecNumCloudGDPR DPA | ISO 27001GDPR DPA |
| Pricing model | Per 1M tokens (AI Endpoints, input/output priced separately) | Per-hour dedicated GPU (Managed Inference); per token (Generative APIs) |
| Public pricing | Yes | Yes |
| Residency guarantee | Not verified | Yes |
| Parent jurisdiction | FR | FR |
| Analyst note | AI Endpoints is a serverless per-token API (40+ models) with zero data retention beyond billing data; AI Deploy runs customer containers and models. Certifications page lists SecNumCloud (ANSSI), BSI C5, ISO 27001 and GDPR compliance. Parent OVH Groupe SA is registered in Lille, France. No explicit AI-product data-residency guarantee found at review. | Managed Inference runs models on dedicated GPUs at fixed hourly rates (e.g. Llama 3.1-8b at 0.93 EUR/hour) inside a VPC; prompts and responses are stated as stored only in Europe. Scaleway SAS is registered in Paris, France (legal notice). Security page says the SecNumCloud qualification process was entered in January 2025; not yet listed as qualified. |
Where they diverge
Deployment differentiation
Only OVHcloud
Both
Only Scaleway
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