Scaleway AI Inference

by Scaleway

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The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free: a recording up to 20 minutes transcribes in full, a longer one is previewed, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, and credits never expire.

Scaleway's GPU inference platform commonly used for hosted Whisper.

API  ·  per-Scaleway pricing

TL;DR

Best for eU teams self-hosting Whisper inside a sovereign cloud with GPU instances. Pricing: per-Scaleway pricing (compute-based).

Category
Transcription APIs
Pricing
per-Scaleway pricing (compute-based)
Platforms
API

What it is

Scaleway is a French cloud provider offering GPU inference deployments including Whisper-large-v3 templates. Useful for EU teams that need Whisper inside a sovereign / GDPR-aligned cloud with predictable compute pricing. Not a turnkey ASR API — the customer manages the deployment. Best fit: eu teams self-hosting whisper inside a sovereign cloud with gpu instances. Caveats: not a turnkey asr product; you operate the deployment. Pricing as listed: per-Scaleway pricing (compute-based). Feature flags from vendor docs: word-level timestamps. Directory tags: commercial-api, model-host, regional-europe. Last vendor-page check: 2026-05-12.

Best for: EU teams self-hosting Whisper inside a sovereign cloud with GPU instances.
Watch out for: Not a turnkey ASR product; you operate the deployment.

Install / use

Scaleway Inference Deployment for Whisper

What people actually do with Scaleway AI Inference-style transcription

The tool is the means. These are the jobs — each one priced at published rates, each one wired up on its own page.

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Features

Speaker diarizationNo
Word-level timestampsYes
Streaming / real-timeNo
Languages supported99
HIPAA eligibleNo

Scaleway AI Inference vs Whipscribe

FeatureScaleway AI InferenceWhipscribe
CategoryTranscription APIsTranscription APIs
PricingNot verified$6–$24 one-time packs (credits never expire) · first 20 minutes free
Speaker identificationNot verifiedNamed in the summary, key quotes and chapters
Word timestampsNot verifiedYes
StreamingNot verifiedNo
Languages9999
PlatformsAPIWeb, API, MCP

Alternatives to Scaleway AI Inference

Frequently asked about Scaleway AI Inference

How much does Scaleway AI Inference cost?

Scaleway AI Inference is a paid product — published pricing: per-Scaleway pricing (compute-based). Pricing changes; verify on the vendor's own page before budgeting.

What platforms does Scaleway AI Inference support?

Scaleway AI Inference is an API — you call it from whatever you build, on any platform with an HTTP client.

How do I get started with Scaleway AI Inference?

Scaleway AI Inference is used through its API: get a key from the vendor, then call it from your own code. There is no desktop app to install.

How many languages does Scaleway AI Inference support?

Scaleway AI Inference lists 99 languages. That is the Whisper-family multilingual set, so quality varies by language — English and the large European languages are strongest.

What are the limitations of Scaleway AI Inference?

Not a turnkey ASR product; you operate the deployment.

Who is Scaleway AI Inference best for?

EU teams self-hosting Whisper inside a sovereign cloud with GPU instances.

Is Scaleway AI Inference open source?

No. Scaleway AI Inference is a proprietary API. If you need source you can read and run yourself, the open-source tools in this directory are the place to look.

What kind of tool is Scaleway AI Inference?

In this directory Scaleway AI Inference is filed under commercial api, model host, regional europe as a API.

What are the alternatives to Scaleway AI Inference?

There is a side-by-side page at /tools/scaleway-ai-alternatives comparing Scaleway AI Inference with the closest tools in the same category on price, platform and features.

Can I automate Scaleway AI Inference-style transcription without running it myself?

Yes. If what you want is transcripts rather than the tool itself, Whipscribe does the same job as a hosted API: submit a file or URL, poll a job id, pull the result as txt, json, srt, vtt or docx. $0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. The automation recipes on this site show it wired to Drive folders, Zoom recordings, S3 buckets and no-code platforms.

How is Whipscribe different from Scaleway AI Inference?

Scaleway AI Inference is another vendor's product; Whipscribe is a per-minute transcription service. Recordings are transcribed on our own servers and never used for training, and every job returns five formats plus an AI summary, quotes and topics. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export.

What does transcription cost if I use Whipscribe instead of Scaleway AI Inference?

$0.012 a minute — about $0.72 an audio hour — bought as credits that never expire. There is no subscription and no monthly minimum: a 3-hour recording is about $2.16, a thousand-hour archive is about $720 once. The first 20 minutes of any recording are transcribed free, and a pack from $6 (500 minutes) transcribes the rest and opens every export, so you can see what your recording holds before paying anything.

Where is the Scaleway AI Inference category heading?

Three things are moving across the whole speech-to-text market right now: summaries, action items and speaker insights generated on top of the transcript rather than sold separately; private, secured deployment where the audio never leaves a boundary you control; and agent access — transcription exposed as a tool that Claude, Cursor or a workflow runner can call directly. Whipscribe ships all three today: per-job insights, our own servers, and an MCP server.

Whipscribe is a hosted transcription service. If you want transcripts without running infrastructure, paste a URL or drop a file in the form below — you'll have a transcript in seconds.

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