The complete platform. ~40 to 70 % cheaper than the giants.
You pay for your OVHcloud infrastructure directly, at real cost. Polnor charges its margin on top — a transparent bill, no opaque credits or DBUs, no lock-in.
You pay infra at real cost. Polnor charges its margin on top.
The OVHcloud base is 2 to 3 times cheaper than US hyperscalers : even with our margin you stay below Databricks and Snowflake — and the bill is readable.
Like-for-like comparison
Snowflake has caught up on ML/GPU (Snowpark Container Services + Cortex AI) : like Databricks, it's now a full platform. The match comes down to price and sovereignty.
| Criterion | Polnor | Databricks | Snowflake | Scaleway |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pricing model | Real OVH cost × margin (1.7–2.0) | Cloud VM + DBU | All-in credits | Raw infra + managed Spark |
| Sovereignty / infra | ✓ EU · SecNumCloud / HDS (OVHcloud) | ✗ US hyperscaler | ✗ US hyperscaler | ✓ EU |
| Base compute cost | Low (OVH) | High | Included (opaque) | Low (EU) |
| GPU / ML / serving | ✓ built-in | ✓ full | ✓ SPCS + Cortex | ⚠ DIY |
| Covers the whole project | ✓ end-to-end | ✓ | ✓ | ⚠ to build |
| Serverless / scale-to-zero | VM auto-stop | partial | warehouse yes · containers no | ✗ no |
| Billing transparency | ✓ margin on real cost | ✗ opaque DBU | ✗ credits | ✓ |
| Operating effort | low (managed) | low | low | high (DIY) |
A lean data + ML project, SME-sized
Assumed monthly usage, used as the basis for the estimate below.
Estimated monthly cost (€)
Polnor at the committed rate (×1.7). The others at 2026 public list prices for equivalent usage, human cost included.
| Component | Polnor ×1.7 | Databricks | Snowflake | Scaleway DIY |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SQL analytics | 340 | 1,000 | 750 | 170 |
| Batch ETL | 51 | 280 | 560 | 30 |
| ML GPU (40 h) | 170 | 320 | 800 | 100 |
| Serving (730 h) | 620 | 500 | 650 | 300 |
| Storage 2 TB | 34 | 45 | 70 | 20 |
| Platform engineering (DevOps) | included | included | included | ~3,500 |
| Total / month | ≈ 1,215 | ≈ 2,150 | ≈ 2,830 | ≈ 4,120 |
| Savings with Polnor | — | −44 % | −57 % | −70 % |
At equivalent coverage, Polnor sits below the leaders.
How much you save, in %
Polnor (×1.7) compared to each platform, at equivalent coverage, human cost included.
Method & caveats. Order-of-magnitude estimates for a reference project, 2026 list prices (excluding negotiation, region, commitment discounts) — not a quote. Polnor figures derived from the billing model (margin on real OVH cost) ; competitor figures from public third-party sources. Scaleway DIY includes 0.5 FTE of a data/DevOps engineer (fully-loaded France cost ≈ €7,000/month for 1 FTE) because the platform must be built and operated in-house. Snowflake GPU/serving via Snowpark Container Services + Cortex AI (billed in credits, no scale-to-zero for containers). Polnor runs on OVHcloud infrastructure qualified SecNumCloud 3.2 and HDS-certified ; the qualification applies to the host.
A costed estimate for your use case.
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