Best Scaleway alternatives in 2026
Scaleway rents bare metal Mac minis from Paris: an M4 from €149 a month excl. VAT, an M4 Pro with 64 GB at €335, and every allocation is billed for at least 24 hours. People look further for four reasons: more memory than 64 GB, a lower price for a Mac that runs all month, a host in the EU that is not Scaleway, or a model API instead of an empty machine. Prices verified 2026-10-12.
Why people switch from Scaleway
- Machines come empty: no AI/ML stacks, no inference API
- Lineup tops out at M4 Pro 64 GB, no Studio class 128 to 256 GB
- 24-hour minimum billing on every Mac (Apple licensing)
- No long-term price discount
- Remote access is DIY (SSH/VNC setup yourself)
To be fair, Scaleway gets real things right: EU data centers (Paris) and EU jurisdiction; hourly billing available. If those match your needs, staying put is a legitimate answer.
Where Scaleway users go, by reason
You need more than 64 GB of memory
Scaleway stops at an M4 Pro with 64 GB, so a 70B model at Q8 or anything in the 120B to 200B class will not fit. Macyou rents an M4 Max Mac Studio with 128 GB for $471 a month and an M3 Ultra with 256 GB for $857; MacWeb lists Mac Studios up to 256 GB in the US, and JUUZ rents Mac Studios from Amsterdam.
The Mac runs around the clock
Scaleway has no long term price: the M4 with 16 GB costs the same €149 every month. The same machine is $99 a month at Macyou, or $80 a month billed annually, and $85 at My Remote Mac, which hosts in the US.
You want to stay in the EU
EU jurisdiction is the best reason to pick Scaleway. If that is why you are there, the other EU hosts that rent whole dedicated Macs are JUUZ in Amsterdam and RoundFleet in Toulouse.
You want a model API, not an empty Mac
A Scaleway Mac arrives with macOS and nothing else. A Macyou machine comes with Ollama, MLX and an OpenAI compatible endpoint, so a model answers requests about 5 minutes after you deploy.
Macyou: for AI workloads on dedicated Apple Silicon
Full disclosure: this is us — judge the specifics, not the ranking. Macyou rents dedicated Macs built for AI: every deployment ships with pre-configured stacks and an OpenAI-compatible endpoint, and our performance numbers are measured on the fleet and published, not estimated.
- AI stacks pre-installed: Ollama, MLX, agents, deploy in about 5 minutes
- OpenAI-compatible API endpoint out of the box
- Mac Studio class up to M3 Ultra 256 GB + Thunderbolt 5 clustering
- Browser desktop (WebRTC) included, no VNC setup
- Fixed monthly price, annual billing saves 15 to 39%
Hardware runs from an M4 Mac mini (16–32 GB, from $99/mo) to a Mac Studio M3 Ultra with 256 GB — against Scaleway's $164/mo entry point.
Want the fine print on Scaleway itself — contracts, setup fees, support tiers? Read our Scaleway review →
M4 Mac mini, 16 GB, 256 GB SSD: Scaleway against the alternatives
Monthly price of the same machine at every provider we track that sells it, from their public price lists.
| Provider | Per month | Against Scaleway |
|---|---|---|
| My Remote Mac | $85 | $79 less a month |
| RoundFleet | $99 | $65 less a month |
| MacWeb | $99 | $65 less a month |
| Macyou | $99 | $65 less a month |
| HostMyApple | $119.99 | $44.01 less a month |
| JUUZ Cloud | $120 | $44 less a month |
| Mac Mini Vault | $134.99 | $29.01 less a month |
| MacStadium | $149 | $15 less a month |
| MacRent | $159 | $5 less a month |
| Scaleway | $164 | this provider |
| MacinCloud | $165 | $1 more a month |
Macyou is $80 a month for the M4 with 16 GB when billed annually. Fine print for every provider: MacStadium, MacinCloud, AWS EC2 Mac, My Remote Mac, JUUZ Cloud, MacRent, RoundFleet, MacWeb, HostMyApple, Mac Mini Vault. Thinking of buying instead? Buy vs rent a Mac for AI.