Packet AI vs Scaleway: Pricing, Specs, Strengths & Weaknesses

Packet AI offers dedicated single-tenant and dynamic scheduler-managed shared GPU instances for AI workloads. Both deployment options are available with on-demand hourly and monthly billing. Packet AI also provides Token Factory, a managed LLM inference API with an OpenAI-compatible endpoint for teams that want to serve models without operating their own inference stack.

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.