Northflank vs Scaleway: Complete Comparison (2026)

Why choose Northflank

• Higher Support score (7/10 vs 4/10)
• Higher Analytics score (6/10 vs 5/10)
• Better fit for enterprise (7/10 vs 5/10)

Why choose Scaleway

• Higher Cost score (8/10 vs 7/10)

Northflank

Pros

• Per-second usage billing with no seat or workspace fees. Northflank's own comparison prices a 2 vCPU, 4 GB service at $48 a month, against $85 at Render.
• The same platform can run workloads in your own AWS, GCP, Azure or Civo account, or on imported Kubernetes clusters, so moving off the managed cloud does not mean switching tools.
• G2 reviewers praise fast support from engineers who know the product.
• Builds from GitHub, GitLab and Bitbucket are built in, and preview environments are created for each pull request.
• GPU options run from L4 to B200, so AI workloads can sit next to ordinary services.

Cons

• SLAs, SSO, SCIM, audit logs and the WAF are only available on Enterprise.
• G2 reviewers mention a limited choice of regions and slow builds because local Docker caching is missing.
• Some Trustpilot reviewers report slow support, and the review base is small overall.
• The vendor's pricing and features pages carry a notice about a security incident and ask users to rotate their credentials.

Scaleway

Pros

• All data centers are in the EU, which helps with GDPR and data sovereignty requirements
• Low entry prices with hourly billing, and Instance list prices include egress
• The shared Kubernetes control plane is free
• A full API, CLI and Terraform provider allow infrastructure-as-code workflows
• A wide compute range covering bare metal, Apple silicon and current GPUs

Cons

• No regions outside Europe
• Trustpilot reviews frequently cite unexpected billing and account verification lockouts
• Support is slow on the free tier, and stronger support costs extra
• Block storage and public IPv4 are billed separately, which pushes costs above headline instance prices
• Development instances carry little or no availability SLO