VPS price comparison — October 2026
Ranked purely by the lowest published monthly price we could read from each provider's own page. No sponsor placement, no paid ordering.
| # | Provider | Cheapest monthly | Cheapest annual | Offers tracked | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BuyVM | $0.5 USD/mo | $24 USD/yr | 2 | visit |
| 2 | IONOS | $2 USD/mo | — | 1 | visit |
| 3 | Cloudzy | $2.48 USD/mo | $30 USD/yr | 2 | visit |
| 4 | ScalaHosting | $2.95 USD/mo | — | 1 | visit |
| 5 | DigitalOcean | $4 USD/mo | — | 1 | visit |
| 6 | OVHcloud | $4.54 USD/mo | — | 1 | visit |
| 7 | UltaHost | $4.8 USD/mo | — | 1 | visit |
| 8 | SSD Nodes | $5.5 USD/mo | — | 1 | visit |
| 9 | Hostinger | $6.49 USD/mo | — | 4 | visit |
| 10 | Hostwinds | $7.14 USD/mo | — | 1 | visit |
| 11 | InMotion Hosting | $7.99 USD/mo | — | 5 | visit |
| 12 | DreamHost | $8.99 USD/mo | — | 1 | visit |
| 13 | Verpex | $10 USD/mo | — | 4 | visit |
| 14 | TransIP | €12.99 EUR/mo | — | 1 | visit |
| 15 | GreenGeeks | $69.95 USD/mo | — | 3 | visit |
Ranking is by published price only. A cheaper entry price does not mean better hardware, support, or network — read the provider's own specification before buying.
How to read this table
Each row is one provider, ranked by the lowest monthly-equivalent price this site could read from that provider's own public pricing page on the date shown at the bottom of this page. The two price columns are the cheapest monthly plan and the cheapest annual plan that provider publishes.
Across the 29 priced plans tracked in this run, the spread is: 1 EUR plans, from 12.99 to 12.99 per month (median 12.99); 28 USD plans, from 0.5 to 179.95 per month (median 8.99). Every one of those figures is computed from this site's own fetch results, converted to a monthly basis where the provider bills annually.
An entry price tells you what the cheapest door costs, nothing more. It does not tell you how much traffic is included, what a public IPv4 address costs on top, or what the price becomes at renewal. Those are the numbers that decide the real cost, and they are worth checking on the provider's page before you buy.
Why the ranking can change between runs
This table is rebuilt from a fresh fetch, so it moves whenever a provider changes a published price, adds a plan, or stops listing one. A provider that drops out of the table did not necessarily get more expensive — it may simply have stopped publishing a machine-readable price, in which case it appears on the <a href="/sources">sources page</a> with the reason.
What actually matters when comparing these plans
- Decide what the server is for before comparing specs. A box that only runs a scheduled job has completely different needs from one serving pages to visitors.
- Check the traffic allowance and what overage costs, before you check core count. Running out of monthly transfer is a harder failure than running out of CPU.
- Confirm whether the provider charges separately for a public IPv4 address, snapshots, or a data disk. These routinely change the real monthly cost.
- Verify the upgrade, downgrade, migration and refund rules in writing. Being able to upgrade does not imply you can downgrade later.
- Treat a snapshot as a rollback convenience, not a backup. If the instance is destroyed and the snapshot goes with it, you did not have a backup.
Common traps in this market
- A low first-term price that reverts to a much higher renewal price is the single most common surprise. Record both numbers before you buy.
- Peak bandwidth and sustained throughput are different things. A large port number can coexist with a shared link, a monthly cap, or throttling after you exceed the allowance.
- Two plans with identical core and RAM counts can perform very differently depending on CPU scheduling, disk latency, and how loaded the neighbouring tenants are. A spec sheet does not settle this.
- Cheap annual prepay is how providers lock in customers, not a favour to you. On a provider you have not used before, start with the shortest term available.