Scaleway is an excellent on-demand cloud: hourly billing, Kubernetes, object storage, serverless. But for a plain VPS running 24/7, the bill climbs fast once storage and IPv4 are added. OnetSolutions shows one fixed monthly price, all included, with a human replying under 2 hours. Here is the line-by-line comparison.
For a server that runs all month, OnetSolutions is markedly cheaper: a Scaleway DEV1-S (2 vCPU, 2 GB) comes to about €6.55/month excl. VAT before storage and IPv4, versus €3.99/month excl. VAT for our equivalent GP-2, disk and IP included. The gap widens on the 4 GB and 8 GB sizes.
Scaleway keeps the edge if you need ephemeral infrastructure billed by the hour, a managed ecosystem (Kubernetes Kapsule, object storage, managed databases, serverless) or zones in Amsterdam and Warsaw as well as Paris. On that ground, a classic VPS is not in the same category.
In practice: website, business app, shop, VPN, bot or game server running all month — OnetSolutions. Disposable environments, CI pipelines, cloud-native multi-service architectures — Scaleway remains the right tool.
Every row is based on both providers' public pages on the date shown. Prices exclude VAT; Scaleway monthly figures are the hourly rate over 730 hours.
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| Criterion | Scaleway | OnetSolutions |
|---|---|---|
| Entry-level instance (2 vCPU / 2 GB) | DEV1-S: 2 vCPU, 2 GB, 200 Mbps — €0.00898/h, about €6.55/month excl. VAT, storage and IPv4 not included | GP-2: 2 vCPU, 2 GB, 40 GB SSD or 20 GB NVMe, 150 Mbps — €3.99/month excl. VAT all included (€3.19 yearly) |
| 2 vCPU / 4 GB size | PLAY2-NANO: 2 vCPU, 4 GB, 200 Mbps — about €20.10/month excl. VAT, block storage and IPv4 not included | GP-4: 2 vCPU, 4 GB, 80 GB SSD or 40 GB NVMe — €7.99/month excl. VAT, €6.39 yearly |
| 4 vCPU / 8 GB size | DEV1-L: 4 vCPU, 8 GB, 400 Mbps — about €31.27/month excl. VAT, storage and IPv4 not included | GP-8: 4 vCPU, 8 GB, 160 GB SSD or 80 GB NVMe — €15.99/month excl. VAT, €12.79 yearly |
| What the displayed price includes | Egress and IPv6. Storage (local or block) and public IPv4 billed separately (IPv4: €0.004/h, about €2.92/month) | Disk, dedicated IPv4, unlimited traffic, anti-DDoS, snapshots, backups, support |
| Billing model | Hourly, no commitment; up to 25% off with Savings Plans | Monthly with no commitment, -20% on yearly billing |
| Bandwidth | 100 Mbps to 500 Mbps on DEV1/PLAY2, several Gbps on higher ranges | 150 to 300 Mbps on General Purpose, 500 Mbps on Performance, unlimited traffic |
| Snapshots | Billed per GB per hour (€0.000044/GB/h, about €0.03/GB/month) | Included, one click from the console |
| Automated backups | No automated backup included; schedule via snapshots or third-party tools | Daily off-site backups (remote datacenter), included |
| Included support | Free Basic plan by ticket; paid tiers for guaranteed response times and phone | French-speaking technicians 7 days a week, reply under 2 hours, included on every VPS |
| Location | Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw | France only, ISO 27001-certified datacenter |
| Managed ecosystem | Kubernetes, object storage, managed databases, serverless, on-demand GPU | VPS, VPC, GPU, web hosting, domains: one console, no cloud-native catalogue |
| Windows Server | Restricted to dedicated ranges, not offered on DEV1 / PLAY2 | Windows Server 2025 with licence included from GP-4 |
Sources: scaleway.com/en/pricing/virtual-instances (PAR-1 zone), retrieved on 18 August 2026; Scaleway monthly figures = hourly rate × 730 h; OnetSolutions price list in force on the same date. Offers change: report any discrepancy and we will correct it.
Start from your workload rather than the instance name. The table puts the OnetSolutions plan we recommend for migration next to each Scaleway range.
| Profile | At Scaleway | At OnetSolutions | Order |
|---|---|---|---|
| Brochure site, VPN, bot, testing | DEV1-S 2 vCPU · 2 GB · 200 Mbps about €6.55/month excl. VAT + storage + IPv4 | GP-2 2 vCPU · 2 GB · 40 GB SSD or 20 GB NVMe €3.19/month excl. VAT yearly, €3.99 monthly | Choose this plan |
| Application, shop, light Windows | PLAY2-NANO 2 vCPU · 4 GB · 200 Mbps about €20.10/month excl. VAT + block storage + IPv4 | GP-4 2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD or 40 GB NVMe €6.39/month excl. VAT yearly, €7.99 monthly | Choose this plan |
| Small business, agency, several sites, database | DEV1-L 4 vCPU · 8 GB · 400 Mbps about €31.27/month excl. VAT + storage + IPv4 | GP-8 4 vCPU · 8 GB · 160 GB SSD or 80 GB NVMe €12.79/month excl. VAT yearly, €15.99 monthly | Choose this plan |
Need more CPU or 500 Mbps? The AMD EPYC Performance range starts at €7.99/month excl. VAT. Discover the Performance range
The reasons that come up in the migration requests we handle, without embellishment.
One fixed monthly price that covers disk, IPv4, traffic, snapshots and backups. No hourly rate to convert, no storage and IP lines added at month end.
At equivalent size, an OnetSolutions VPS costs a fraction of a DEV1 or PLAY2 instance running 730 hours a month. Hourly billing only pays off if you actually switch machines off.
Scaleway's Basic support works by ticket with no guaranteed delay. Here, a French-speaking technician replies 7 days a week in under 2 hours, included with every VPS.
Daily off-site backups included, one-click snapshots. On Scaleway, backup is your job, through billed snapshots or third-party tools.
Deploy, resize, snapshot, open a port: a few clicks, without navigating a cloud service catalogue designed for complex architectures.
Windows Server 2025 with the licence in the price from GP-4, where Scaleway restricts Windows to dedicated, more expensive ranges.
An honest comparison also says when to stay. In these situations, we advise you not to migrate.
Test environments, CI runners, one-off processing: Scaleway's hourly billing is unbeatable if you really switch your instances off.
Kubernetes Kapsule, S3 object storage, managed databases, serverless functions, load balancers: if your VPS is one brick of that whole, a VPS host does not replace it.
Scaleway offers three European regions. OnetSolutions hosts only in France: ideal for sovereignty, insufficient for multi-region.
The Scaleway ecosystem (CLI, Terraform provider, SDKs) is mature. Our API and MCP server cover the VPS, not an entire cloud catalogue.
A well-run migration is invisible: you switch once everything is validated, and your Scaleway instance stays in place until the last moment.
Pick the plan recommended in the table above and your operating system: the machine is delivered in 10 seconds with its dedicated IP.
Copy sites, databases and files over SSH or rsync from your Scaleway instance. Our team walks you through it step by step if you wish.
Test your applications on the OnetSolutions VPS IP before any switch: your Scaleway instance keeps serving visitors in the meantime.
Lower the TTL, point your domains to the new IP, verify, then delete the Scaleway instance: hourly billing stops immediately.
Before switching DNS, take a one-click snapshot of your new VPS: you freeze a validated state and can roll back in seconds if a post-migration setting goes wrong.
Price, migration, downtime, billing, support: concrete answers for those comparing Scaleway and OnetSolutions.
Yes, for a server that runs all month. A Scaleway DEV1-S (2 vCPU, 2 GB) comes to about €6.55/month excl. VAT before storage and IPv4; our equivalent GP-2 is €3.99/month excl. VAT with disk and IP included, €3.19 yearly. On 4 GB and 8 GB, the gap is double or more. Scaleway becomes attractive again if you switch instances off part of the month.
The recurring reasons: an invoice that is hard to predict (hourly rate, storage and IPv4 extra), a console designed for a cloud catalogue rather than a simple server, and Basic support by ticket with no guaranteed delay. A fixed-price VPS host with human support under 2 hours answers all three.
Order an equal or larger VPS: it is delivered in 10 seconds. Then transfer your files and databases over rsync or SSH, test on the new IP, then switch DNS and delete the Scaleway instance. Our support assists you at every step.
No, if you proceed in order: your Scaleway instance keeps responding while you copy and validate everything on the new VPS. The only visible transition is the DNS change, almost instant if you lower the TTL in advance.
Yes: the displayed price includes disk, dedicated IPv4, unlimited traffic, anti-DDoS, snapshots, daily backups and support. You pay the same amount every month with no commitment, or -20% yearly.
Yes: an OnetSolutions VPS is a standard KVM server with root access. Docker, Docker Compose, Podman, your images and deployment scripts work identically. What you lose is Scaleway's managed Kubernetes; what you gain is a fixed price and included support.
Yes, exclusively: ISO 27001-certified French datacenter, French company. Scaleway also hosts in Paris but offers Amsterdam and Warsaw too; at OnetSolutions the question does not arise.
Yes: Windows Server 2025 with the licence included in the price from GP-4. At Scaleway, Windows is restricted to dedicated ranges and is not offered on the DEV1 and PLAY2 instances compared here.
Order monthly with no commitment, migrate at your pace with our team, and keep your Scaleway instance until everything is validated. The first invoice with no surprises is often what decides it.
Scaleway is a trademark of Scaleway SAS, cited solely to identify the offers compared. Information about Scaleway comes from its public pages on the date shown and may have changed since. This comparison is produced by OnetSolutions and is neither approved nor sponsored by Scaleway.
