Google vs Scaleway: Token Pricing, Speed & Intelligence
Full comparison of Google and Scaleway — live token pricing, latency, throughput, context window, strengths, weaknesses, and best use cases. Updated July 2026.
Gemini 2.5 — the largest context window at the lowest frontier price
Google DeepMind's Gemini family offers some of the most competitive frontier pricing, with Gemini 2.5 Pro delivering top-tier intelligence at $1.25/1M input tokens. The 1M+ token context window is the largest available. Gemini 2.5 Flash is a standout efficient model for vision and multimodal tasks.
Scaleway
French cloud provider with sovereign EU LLM inference
Scaleway is a French cloud provider offering GPU compute and LLM inference with a focus on European data sovereignty. Their Generative APIs service hosts Llama 3.3 and other open-weight models, making them a strong choice for European businesses with data residency requirements.
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Live token pricing
Strengths & weaknesses
Scaleway
Key differentiators
Gemini 2.5 Pro delivers frontier-tier intelligence at $1.25/1M input tokens — the best price-to-performance ratio among all frontier models.
The strongest European data sovereignty credentials — a French company with French data centres, ideal for organisations with strict EU data residency requirements.
Frequently asked questions
Google FAQs
How much does the Google Gemini API cost?
Gemini 2.5 Pro costs $1.25/1M input tokens (up to 200K context) and $10/1M output. Gemini 2.5 Flash is $0.15/$0.60 per 1M tokens. Gemini 2.0 Flash is even cheaper at $0.10/$0.40 per 1M tokens.
What is the context window for Gemini models?
Gemini 2.5 Pro and Flash both support a 1,048,576-token (1M+) context window — the largest available from any major LLM provider. This makes them ideal for processing entire codebases, books, or long document collections.
Does Gemini support vision and multimodal inputs?
Yes. All Gemini 2.x models natively support images, audio, and video inputs alongside text. Gemini 2.5 Flash is particularly strong for vision tasks at a low cost.
Scaleway FAQs
Is Scaleway GDPR-compliant?
Yes. Scaleway is a French company with data centres in France and the Netherlands. All data stays within the EU, making it one of the strongest options for GDPR compliance and French data sovereignty requirements.
What LLM models does Scaleway offer?
Scaleway's Generative APIs service hosts Llama 3.3 and other open-weight models. Their catalog is focused on the most widely-used open-source models.
How does Scaleway compare to Nebius AI for European inference?
Both are European providers with GDPR-compliant infrastructure. Scaleway has stronger French data sovereignty credentials (French company, French data centres) while Nebius AI has a larger model catalog and more inference-focused infrastructure.
Provider resources
Google — Gemini 2.5 — the largest context window at the lowest frontier price
Google DeepMind's Gemini family offers some of the most competitive frontier pricing, with Gemini 2.5 Pro delivering top-tier intelligence at $1.25/1M input tokens. The 1M+ token context window is the largest available. Gemini 2.5 Flash is a standout efficient model for vision and multimodal tasks.
Gemini 2.5 Pro delivers frontier-tier intelligence at $1.25/1M input tokens — the best price-to-performance ratio among all frontier models.
Scaleway — French cloud provider with sovereign EU LLM inference
Scaleway is a French cloud provider offering GPU compute and LLM inference with a focus on European data sovereignty. Their Generative APIs service hosts Llama 3.3 and other open-weight models, making them a strong choice for European businesses with data residency requirements.
The strongest European data sovereignty credentials — a French company with French data centres, ideal for organisations with strict EU data residency requirements.
Key strengths compared
- ▸1M+ token context window — largest available
- ▸Best price-per-intelligence at frontier tier ($1.25/1M input)
- ▸Native multimodal: text, image, audio, video
Scaleway
- ▸French cloud — strongest EU data sovereignty credentials
- ▸GDPR-compliant with data centres in France and Netherlands
- ▸GPU compute + LLM inference from one provider
Provider category context
Google is a frontier lab, founded in 1998. Scaleway is a cloud, founded in 1999. The category difference means these providers serve partially overlapping use cases — compare the model lists and pricing tables above to find the best fit for your specific workload.
How to choose between them
Choose Google if you need 1m+ token context window — largest available. Choose Scaleway if you need french cloud — strongest eu data sovereignty credentials. For high-volume production workloads, run a cost comparison using the token pricing table above with your actual prompt/completion token ratio — the cheapest provider depends heavily on your input-to-output token ratio.