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Scaleway
French cloud provider offering sovereign European infrastructure and GPU clusters.
NOT REALLY
why this verdict
Keep paying — OpenAI has not replaced it
OpenAI's version overlaps, but does not finish the dev tools job, so this one still earns its $8/mo.
- A named launch, not a vibe named, unlinked
- US hyperscalers bundling frontier model access that European clouds cannot match. OpenAI, June 3, 2025 — no announcement link recorded yet.
- How much of the job it covers not the job editorial call
- Parts of it. The job still needs the tool to get finished.
- Is there a free way to do it? paid only
- 3 replacements listed, all paid.
- What the call is worth $96/yr
- $8/mo at the entry paid tier — $96 a year per seat.
Reason composed from the fields above missing: announcement linked missing: free replacement listed recorded: two or more escape hatches
- Threatened by
- OpenAI
- Since
- June 3, 2025
- List price
- $8/mo
- Per year
- $96
The backstory
Scaleway is the credible European answer to AWS, and its pitch sharpened as data sovereignty moved from a procurement checkbox to a board-level requirement. Competing on AI is hard when the frontier models live on American clouds, so it went the other way: hosting open-weight models in EU regions for organisations that cannot legally send prompts across the Atlantic. That is a smaller market than the hyperscalers chase and a durable one they structurally cannot serve.
