provider · Scaleway (Iliad Group, France)

Scaleway

Scaleway is a French cloud provider (part of the Iliad group) offering two EU-sovereign paths to model inference. Generative APIs is a pay-per-token, OpenAI-compatible endpoint serving open models (Llama, Mistral, DeepSeek and others) from French data centers — the "buy" path, comparable to Groq or OpenRouter but EU-hosted throughout. GPU Instances is the "build" path: rent an H100-class GPU by the hour and run vLLM, Ollama, or any engine yourself — the same self-hosting playbook as a rented Hetzner box, just from a French provider under EU jurisdiction the whole way. Either way, Scaleway markets itself explicitly on European sovereignty and a lower carbon footprint than the US hyperscalers — relevant for an institution answering both a GDPR checklist and a sustainability one.

• paid
• cloud
• Commercial