# Scaleway vs Munito AI

URL: https://munito.ai/compare/scaleway

Scaleway Generative APIs and Munito AI side by side for open models in the EU: regions, APIs, OCR, decision models and prices.

Choose Scaleway for a large catalogue in one Paris data centre, inside a full French cloud you may already buy. Choose Munito AI for lower prices on the models you both serve, an Anthropic-compatible API, OCR of PDFs by the page, decision models, and a deployment in your own cloud or on-premises.

Facts checked on 2026-11-07. Scaleway's price page refuses an automated read, so the prices below are the ones we recorded on 2026-10-22. Check them at the source before you plan a budget.

## At a glance

|                   | Munito AI                         | Scaleway                                   |
| ----------------- | --------------------------------- | ------------------------------------------ |
| Where it runs     | EU, US or global                  | Paris only, for serverless                 |
| Prompts kept      | No                                | No, except errors and abuse, up to 2 weeks |
| API formats       | OpenAI and Anthropic              | OpenAI                                     |
| OCR               | Billed per page                   | Billed per token                           |
| Decision models   | Yes                               | No                                         |
| Your own cloud    | Yes                               | No                                         |
| On-premises       | Yes                               | No                                         |
| Free tier         | Yes, a daily allowance            | Yes, the first 1M tokens                   |
| Batch             | Three batch tiers                 | Half price                                 |

Scaleway states the location plainly: "All Serverless models are currently hosted in a secure data center located in Paris, France", and it commits that models reached through `api.scaleway.ai` "remain hosted in Europe". One data centre is a clear answer for a French buyer. It is also the whole answer: there is no second region and no deployment inside your own perimeter.

## Prices in the EU

Standard tier, per million tokens, input / output. Munito AI in USD, Scaleway in EUR before tax.

| Model                    | Munito AI       | Scaleway      |
| ------------------------ | --------------- | ------------- |
| DeepSeek-V4-Flash        | $0.11 / $0.28   | €0.40 / €0.80 |
| DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 | $0.30 / $1.20   | €0.60 / €1.80 |
| Qwen3.8-27B              | $0.20 / $2.70   | €0.60 / €3.30 |
| GLM-5.3-Flash            | $0.15 / $0.50   | Not offered   |
| Gemma 4 12B              | $0.11 / $0.33   | Not offered   |

Munito AI is cheaper on each of the three models both platforms serve. Cached input widens the gap: a repeated prefix on DeepSeek-V4.1-Flash-1017 costs $0.006 per million tokens here.

Read the whole bill, not one row. Scaleway halves the price of a batch request; Munito AI has three batch tiers, and the `flex` tier cuts the standard price for work that can wait. See [Pricing](https://docs.munito.ai/pricing) and [Service tiers](https://docs.munito.ai/service-tiers).

## How to switch

Both platforms speak the OpenAI API, so the move is a base URL and a key.

```python
from openai import OpenAI

client = OpenAI(
    base_url="https://api.eu.munito.ai/inference/v1",
    api_key="munitoai_...",
)
```

Tool calling, streaming and structured outputs behave the same way. What you gain is the [Anthropic Messages API](https://docs.munito.ai/compatibility) on the same key, so Claude Code and other Anthropic-shaped harnesses connect with no proxy in between.

## Where Scaleway is stronger

- **A larger catalogue**, with embeddings, Whisper transcription and image models beside the chat models.
- **One cloud for everything.** If you already run Kubernetes, object storage and databases at Scaleway, inference on the same invoice and the same IAM is worth real money.
- **A dedicated deployment** with a fixed hourly rate, from about €0.93 an hour.
- **An automatic prompt cache** that the platform persists and evicts by request frequency.

## Where Munito AI is stronger

- **Lower prices** on each shared model, before the cached-input discount.
- **The Anthropic Messages API** beside the OpenAI Chat Completions and Responses APIs.
- **EU, US or global processing** on one key, with the region in the `munito-region` header of every response. See [Regions](https://docs.munito.ai/regions).
- **A deployment of your own**: managed, inside your cloud account, or on-premises. Scaleway serverless is Paris or nothing.
- **OCR billed per page** at $0.0044, not per token, so a document budget is a page count.
- **Decision models**: pplx-decider-v1.2 and Cygnet answer yes or no, choice and score questions through the [Decisions API](https://docs.munito.ai/api/createDecision).

## What a security review will ask

Both answer the residency question well. Beyond that, ask each vendor for the DPA, the sub-processor list and the retention period in writing. Ours are at [legal.munito.ai/dpa](https://legal.munito.ai/dpa) and [trust.munito.ai/subprocessors](https://trust.munito.ai/subprocessors), and the [security review guide](https://munito.ai/security-review) collects the rest. Our SOC 2 audit and ISO 27001 certification work are in progress; Scaleway holds ISO 27001 today, which matters if your checklist requires a certificate now.

## Sources

Scaleway, checked 2026-11-07: [Generative APIs FAQ](https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/generative-apis/faq/). Prices recorded 2026-10-22: [pricing](https://www.scaleway.com/en/pricing/model-as-a-service/), [supported models](https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/generative-apis/reference-content/supported-models/), [data privacy](https://www.scaleway.com/en/docs/generative-apis/reference-content/data-privacy/), [security and compliance](https://www.scaleway.com/en/security-and-compliance/).

Munito AI: [Models and prices](https://docs.munito.ai/models), [Regions](https://docs.munito.ai/regions), [Data privacy](https://docs.munito.ai/data-privacy), [Security](https://docs.munito.ai/security).