HIGHRESO vs Scaleway: Pricing, Specs, Strengths & Weaknesses

HIGHRESO is a Japanese GPU cloud operating from its own data centers in Japan, offering H100 and A100 instances with competitive on-demand pricing and Japanese data residency for APAC-based AI teams. On-demand and reserved billing options are available, making it a reliable option for Japanese enterprises and APAC teams that need GPU compute within Japan's borders for compliance or latency reasons. One of the few dedicated GPU clouds with Japanese data residency.

Scaleway is a French cloud provider offering H100 SXM and PCIe GPU instances alongside a full cloud platform — managed Kubernetes (Kapsule), object storage, managed databases, serverless functions, and private networking — all within EU data centers. In 2025–2026 Scaleway launched H100 PCIe instances at competitive EU pricing, expanded its managed Kubernetes GPU node pools to support multi-GPU workloads natively, and introduced a GPU-optimized bare-metal tier for latency-sensitive inference. As a subsidiary of Iliad Group (one of France's largest telecoms), Scaleway has the financial backing and network infrastructure to compete seriously in the EU GPU market. A strong choice for European teams that want GPU compute and a full cloud stack from a single EU-sovereign provider, avoiding US hyperscaler data residency concerns entirely.