Scaleway Managed PostgreSQL Pricing in 2026: DEV, PRO Tiers, HA, Backups

TL;DR — Scaleway managed PostgreSQL pricing, 2026. DEV-S (2 vCPU / 2 GB) is ~€11/month, ~€21 with HA. PRO2-XXS (2 vCPU / 8 GB) is ~€80/month, ~€123 with HA. PRO2-XS (4 vCPU / 16 GB) is ~€161/month, ~€246 with HA. Storage is billed separately (~€0.10/GB/month) and backups at €0.03/GB/month. List prices verified 22 September 2026 (Paris region, hourly rate × 730 h, ex-VAT); check scaleway.com/en/pricing for current values.

Scaleway is the French hyperscaler — Paris-headquartered, EU-incorporated, with data centres in Paris, Amsterdam, and Warsaw. Their managed PostgreSQL offering ("Scaleway Database") is one of a handful of EU-parent alternatives to AWS RDS Frankfurt, alongside OVHcloud (France), Aiven (Finland) and HostStack (Denmark). This page is a focused pricing breakdown — for a full side-by-side against Aiven, Neon, Supabase, RDS, and Crunchy Bridge, see our Managed PostgreSQL Europe 2026 buyer's guide.

Scaleway PostgreSQL price list (2026)

Pricing as listed on scaleway.com on 22 September 2026 for the Paris region, converted from the hourly rate at 730 hours a month, ex-VAT. Scaleway bills HA as one additional node at roughly half the main-node rate, so HA adds about 50–85% depending on tier.

DEV tiers are shared-CPU and aimed at development, but they do support HA, which makes DEV-M with HA (~€41) the cheapest highly available 4 GB option on the list. PRO2 tiers are dedicated-CPU; each step doubles the bill for double the resources. Storage is not included in any node price: Block Storage 5K is ~€0.10/GB/month (15K ~€0.15/GB).

What is included in the price

• Backups. Billed at €0.03/GB/month; no free allowance is listed. PITR retention is configurable up to 7 days.
• TLS on all client connections.
• Private networking within a Scaleway VPC at no extra cost.
• Egress. The managed-database price page lists no data-transfer charge.
• Minor version upgrades applied in a maintenance window with notice. Major version upgrades via pg_upgrade from the console.
• Read replicas billed at the additional-node rate, roughly half the main-node price.

What is not included

• HA failover is an add-on: one extra node at the additional-node rate. Required for any production SLA — AWS RDS Multi-AZ has the same pricing model.
• Cross-region replication is not first-class. You can script logical replication between regions, but it's not a checkbox.
• Storage. Every GB of block storage is billed on top of the node.
• Connection pooling (PgBouncer) is not bundled — run it in your app tier or alongside the database in a separate Scaleway instance.

Scaleway vs. the other EU-parent options

If EU incorporation is the line you cannot cross (Schrems II, public-sector procurement, French SecNumCloud dependencies), Scaleway, Aiven, and HostStack are your three options. The closest tiers, side by side:

Aiven includes HA out of the box at the higher price. Scaleway lets you opt in. HostStack ships a Patroni-based 3-node HA option (1 leader + 2 sync replicas, ~5 s automatic failover) on the Standard and Pro tiers at the same €15 / €50 price — no HA add-on — with storage and daily off-site backups included. Currently a per-team opt-in beta. Being straight about it: per GB of RAM, Scaleway's DEV tiers with HA are cheaper than our Pro tier. Where HostStack wins is the entry price (managed Postgres from €4, 3-node HA from €15), no separate storage or backup line items, and your app, database, Redis and domains on one bill.

When Scaleway is the right pick

• You're already on Scaleway for compute, storage, or load balancers, and you want database in the same dashboard with one invoice and zero egress between them.
• You need a French-incorporated provider for procurement, public-sector tenders, or SecNumCloud sub-processor lineage.
• You want standard managed PostgreSQL with PITR, HA, and TLS — nothing exotic — at a predictable monthly price.
• You have in-house DB skills and don't need a holds-your-hand product.

When Scaleway is the wrong pick

• You want app, database, queues, and search from one vendor on one bill. Scaleway has compute and storage, but it's not a PaaS — you wire it together. Look at HostStack for the bundled experience.
• You want serverless billing or database-per-PR branching. Scaleway is classic always-on instance pricing — for branching, look at Neon.
• You want the most feature-complete managed Postgres on the market and are willing to pay for it. Aiven is more polished.
• You're building for HIPAA or a US federal customer. Scaleway is EU-only and proudly so — pick AWS RDS Frankfurt or Crunchy Bridge.

FAQ

How much does Scaleway managed PostgreSQL cost in 2026?

List prices range from ~€11/month for the smallest DEV-S tier (2 vCPU, 2 GB) to ~€640/month for PRO2-M (16 vCPU, 64 GB) as a single node, plus storage at ~€0.10/GB/month. HA adds one node at roughly half the main-node rate. The most common production starting point is PRO2-XXS at ~€80/month single-node or ~€123/month with HA.

Does Scaleway charge for backups?

Yes. Backup and snapshot storage is billed at €0.03/GB/month, with no free allowance listed. PITR retention is configurable up to 7 days.

Is Scaleway PostgreSQL GDPR-compliant?

Yes. Scaleway is a French-incorporated provider with EU-only data centres (Paris, Amsterdam, Warsaw). They publish a standard DPA and are not subject to the US CLOUD Act. For procurement audits, Scaleway is one of the shortest paths to a clean Schrems II sign-off, alongside HostStack (DK) and Aiven (FI).

What does HA cost on Scaleway?

HA adds one standby node billed at the additional-node rate. DEV-S goes from ~€11 to ~€21, DEV-M from ~€28 to ~€41, PRO2-XXS from ~€80 to ~€123 and PRO2-XS from ~€161 to ~€246. HA is available on both DEV and PRO tiers.

Can I get HA managed PostgreSQL in Europe for less than Scaleway?

At the small end, yes — HostStack's Patroni HA (3-node cluster, 1 leader + 2 sync replicas + HAProxy, ~5 s automatic failover) is included on the Standard tier at €15/month and the Pro tier at €50/month, with no HA add-on. Scaleway's cheapest HA option is DEV-S at ~€21/month plus storage, and DEV-M (4 GB) with HA is ~€41 plus storage; Aiven's lowest production HA tier starts at ~$120 (Business-4 at ~$200). HostStack HA is currently a per-team opt-in beta; flip the toggle on your team to enable.

How does Scaleway compare to AWS RDS Frankfurt?

At comparable sizing, Scaleway is roughly half the cost of RDS Multi-AZ (~€28–123 vs ~$120/month for db.t4g.medium Multi-AZ). The trade-off is ecosystem: RDS has the AWS ecosystem (IAM, VPC peering, KMS, RDS Proxy); Scaleway has a smaller but cleaner one. For a SaaS team already on AWS, moving the database to Scaleway means crossing networks. For a team starting fresh and wanting EU-parent incorporation, Scaleway wins on both price and provider lineage.

Bottom line

Scaleway is the cheapest way to buy production-grade managed PostgreSQL from a French-incorporated provider in 2026. PRO2-XXS at ~€80/month (non-HA) or ~€123/month (HA) is the default starting point. If you want app + database on one bill, with storage and backups included and HA from €15, look at HostStack managed Postgres. If you want database-only and maximum polish, Aiven remains the premium choice — compared with us in HostStack vs Aiven.

For the full comparison across HostStack, Aiven, Neon, Supabase, RDS, and Crunchy Bridge, continue to the Managed PostgreSQL Europe 2026 buyer's guide.