Hugging Face vs Scaleway: Pricing, Specs, Strengths & Weaknesses

Hugging Face Inference Endpoints provides managed, production-ready GPU deployment for any model on the Hugging Face Hub — including Llama, Mistral, Stable Diffusion, and custom fine-tunes — on AWS, Azure, and GCP infrastructure. Dedicated endpoints spin up in minutes with automatic scaling, private networking, and pay-per-second billing. Rates shown are AWS single-GPU on-demand. The platform is the natural choice for teams already using the Hugging Face ecosystem who want to move from the Hub to production inference without managing cloud infrastructure.

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.