Understanding Scaleway savings plans

Scaleway’s savings plan is a commitment-based discount program that provides more cost-effective billing compared to the pay-as-you-go model. This plan merges the benefits of discounted rates with the adaptability of pay-as-you-go billing.

How do Scaleway savings plans work?Link to this anchor

When you purchase a savings plan, you:

1. Commit to a certain amount of spending per month for a set period of time (3 years, for example).

   Note

   Commitment rates are calculated based on the public prices of resources before taxes and do not include any discounts.

2. Receive a discount on your monthly bill in exchange.

3. Have the discount applied to the total amount of resources you use, up to the committed amount.

   Important

   Keep in mind that:

   • If you use less than you committed to, you will still be billed for the committed amount with the savings plan discount applied.
   • If you use more resources than the committed amount, you will be charged the standard prices for the excess amount.

ExampleLink to this anchor

If you have a Compute savings plan with a committed amount of 900€ per month over 3 years, a 10% discount is applied. Your consumption within the savings plan will cost you 810€ per month.

If in the month of March you consume:

You will be charged:

To sum up:

Since the savings plan has a committed amount of €900, you would be charged the discounted monthly fee for the committed amount (€810) added to the excess amount used above the committed amount, charged at the standard price (€1.03) equating to your total untaxed bill in March (€811.03).

Eligibility and quotasLink to this anchor

Your Organization is eligible to purchase a savings plan if:

• It does not have any ongoing signed sales agreements with Scaleway
• You have verified your identity via the Scaleway console
• Does not have any outstanding invoices

ScopeLink to this anchor

Currently, Scaleway only offers savings plans for compute resources.

Commitment amountLink to this anchor

The monthly commitment amount for a savings plan must be at least €50 and at most €9,999. The amount you specify will determine in which discount bracket your plan falls.

DurationLink to this anchor

The commitment period can last 12 or 36 months. The longer the commitment, the higher the discount offered.

Payment optionsLink to this anchor

Payments are made on a monthly basis as part of your regular billing cycle.

DiscountsLink to this anchor

Savings plan discounts are applied automatically to the eligible services.

At Scaleway, the discounts are applied in the following order:

• Free tiers or free trials - savings plan discounts will apply after any eligible free tier or trials have been used. This ensures that you maximize your free usage before the savings plan discount is applied.
• Savings plans, and
• Discounts (vouchers or credits) - Any applicable vouchers or credits are used and applied after the savings plan discount.

Understanding this order helps you optimize your savings and ensure that you make the most of the available discounts.

Cancellations and exchangesLink to this anchor

Savings plans cannot be canceled or exchanged.

If you need to request a change to your savings plan, contact the sales team.

We do not make refunds for savings plans that have already been invoiced.

Taxes and currencyLink to this anchor

The total cost displayed for the savings plan does not include applicable taxes. Taxes are displayed on a dedicated section of the invoice, under the summary of your Projects’ total consumption.

Currently, we invoice all customers in euros (EUR). If your primary currency is different, our Payment Service Providers (PSPs) apply the prevailing exchange rate.

How to purchase a savings planLink to this anchor

Follow the instructions on the How to purchase a savings plan documentation plan to do so.

Compute savings planLink to this anchor

There is currently one available savings plan type: the Compute savings plan.

The Compute savings plan can be used with the following resources, simultaneously and across all regions:

• Instances 
  • Cost-optimized (DEV1, GP1, PLAY2, PRO2)
  • Production optimized (ENT1, POP2)
  • Workload optmized (POP2 HC) 

The following resources are not covered by the savings plan discount:

• Instances H100, RENDER, L40S, L4, COPARM1, START1, X64, POP-WIN