Head-to-head, indicative as of Oct 2026. Prices change — always confirm on the vendor page.
Quick read: pick Scaleway if your workload is eu data residency without hyperscaler pricing and its included egress fits your traffic shape; pick Koyeb if you need containers without kubernetes, close to users. For anything latency-sensitive at the edge, cold start row is the tiebreaker.
| Scaleway | Koyeb | |
|---|---|---|
| Type | Cloud (EU-focused) | Serverless containers |
| Free tier | Periodic free tiers | One free service |
| Paid pricing (indicative) | From ~€4/mo | Usage from ~$0.30/mo scale-to-zero |
| Egress | Included allowances | Included fair use |
| Cold start | N/A | ~1s (FastVM) |
| Regions | Paris/Amsterdam/Warsaw | 30+ locations |
| Best for | EU data residency without hyperscaler pricing | Containers without Kubernetes, close to users |
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