BASIC2-A8C-16G
BASIC2 (ARM)
Price
$87.72/mo
billed €75.48/mo
$0.1202/hour
$5.48 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 42% of tracked offers
↑ $0.33 on 5 Sept 2026
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 16 GB> 51% of offers
- vCPU
- 8 shared> 74% of offers
- Disk
- 0 MB> 0% of offers
- Bandwidth
- Unmetered
ARM (arm64) · 800 Mbps internet bandwidth · no bundled disk — Block Storage billed separately · monthly estimated from hourly rate (×730), excl. VAT
Value score
46/100
Percentile of RAM, vCPU, disk and bandwidth per dollar across all 280 tracked offers. Higher = more machine for the money.
Regions · 2
- Paris, FR
- Amsterdam, NL
Data provenance
Scaleway · Public API — api.scaleway.com/instance/v1/zones/{zone}/products/servers
Fetched 5 Sept 2026
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Where this sits in the market
At $87.72/mo, BASIC2-A8C-16G is cheaper than 42% of the 280 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 16 GB of RAM at $5.48/GB — 9% below the $6/GB market median. Its value score of 46/100 ranks it #152 overall, and it is the 25th cheapest of Scaleway's 59 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen3 14B~2.1–4.3 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B~2.1–4.3 tok/s
- Phi-4 14B~2.2–4.3 tok/s
- Mistral Nemo 12B~2.6–5.2 tok/s
- Gemma 3 12B~2.6–5.2 tok/s
- Qwen3 8B~3.9–7.7 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B~3.9–7.7 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B~3.9–7.9 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 16 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 8 shared vCPU.