Scaleway Generative APIs
European managed serverless and dedicated inference offering. Serverless currently hosted in Paris; dedicated deployments allow customer selection of configuration.
Score calculation
(6 + 8 + 5) ÷ 3 = 6.3
3 of six dimensions rated. Unrated dimensions and BDS status are excluded.
Full scoring method ↗Setup details
Scaleway hosts the selected models on its infrastructure; third-party model creators’ original data rights are distinct.
Energy
↑Scaleway documentation identifies the Paris data center, selectable GPU instance types, and available GPU power/usage metrics for dedicated deployments; it does not provide power/emissions per serverless request.
Reasoning & sources
Dedicated deployments expose GPU type and power/usage metrics, but serverless request footprint and emissions remain undisclosed. For a deployment, request or export the selected service and region’s usage-linked footprint when available; do not treat company-wide renewable matching as per-request impact.
Dedicated deployments expose GPU type and power/usage metrics, but serverless request footprint and emissions remain undisclosed.
Corporate energy claims and facility-level values do not resolve individual model or request impact; no per-request estimate found.
Training rights
↑Scaleway says customer inputs are not used to train underlying base models. This hosting/API assurance does not establish legal rights in the hosted models’ training corpora.
Reasoning & sources
Scaleway says customer inputs are not used to train underlying base models. This hosting/API assurance does not establish legal rights in the hosted models’ training corpora. Select the model first and review its license plus corpus-provenance disclosures; prompt no-training terms do not clear the model’s original dataset.
Model-specific licensing, provenance and dataset consent/compensation remain unverified.
Privacy
↑Scaleway says its Generative APIs default to ZDR, collect metadata, and may temporarily store full request content for rare service-harm/error investigations up to two weeks. Serverless currently runs in Paris; dedicated deployment is advised for single-region processing.
Reasoning & sources
Default ZDR and Paris serverless hosting are disclosed; rare investigations can retain full request content for up to two weeks, and metadata is collected. Check the exact API/web surface, plan, region, retention setting, routing, and stateful features in the applicable terms before sending sensitive content.
Default ZDR and Paris serverless hosting are disclosed; rare investigations can retain full request content for up to two weeks, and metadata is collected.
Verify serverless/dedicated product, location, specific model terms, and temporary investigation exception.
Openness
↑Scaleway offers serverless and dedicated deployments, including custom-model options, but its hosted API stack is not shown as portable.
Reasoning & sources
Dedicated deployments and model choice help; the serving stack is still managed. Check whether the chosen model’s weights and license permit inspection or relocation, and whether the serving runtime moves too; API compatibility alone is not an open stack.
Dedicated deployments and model choice help; the serving stack is still managed.
No claim can be made from silence; additional direct documentation or independently verified records are needed.
Worker treatment
↑Iliad’s 2025 Universal Registration Document describes group-level supplier evaluation, a Partner Relations Charter, and monitoring/corrective processes; it does not report worker-level outcomes for Generative APIs or its annotation and facility supply chain.
Reasoning & sources
The parent-group supplier controls are relevant policy evidence, but they do not show audit coverage or results for this API’s vendors. Ask Scaleway for the current supplier scope and worker-level findings before treating the group commitment as an endpoint safeguard.
Conditions for contractors, annotators, and model evaluators remain unknown.
Government & military
↑Scaleway announced an Airbus sovereign-cloud contract for selected enterprise applications, but the announcement does not connect that workload to Generative APIs or identify a military endpoint deployment.
Reasoning & sources
Airbus is an aerospace contractor, yet the disclosed contract is not evidence that this API supports military operations. Keep this dimension unrated absent a named defense award or endpoint scope; verify the workload rather than infer it from the customer’s sector.
No inference about undisclosed customers or contracts is possible from silence.
BDS status
↑We did not find Scaleway SAS among the named targets in the two official BNC campaign lists. This is a limited list check, not BDS approval.
Reasoning & sources
Scaleway SAS is not a named target in the checked lists, but BDS uses selective campaigns, so absence cannot establish a clean record. Your selected model, cloud and billing route can introduce other companies into the purchase.
This review covers the named targets in the BNC consumer/pressure guide and No Tech campaign, not every BDS campaign, local group, investment or supplier. Lists and ownership can change. A company’s absence from these lists is not an endorsement or proof that it has no relevant relationships.