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Which VPS gives you the most per dollar?

191 plans from 6 providers, ranked by what one dollar a month buys: vCPU, RAM, disk, port speed and transfer. Prices come from official APIs and pricing pages and are re-checked every day.

Plans191
Providers6
Best $ / vCPU$2.42
Best $ / GB RAM$1.15
Last verified2026-10-11
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Price vs Monthly transfer (GB)

Each dot is a plan. Dots on the bright line are the efficient frontier: no other plan gives more for the same price or less. Axes are logarithmic.

AWS LightsailAkamai / LinodeDigitalOceanOVHcloudScalewayVultr

Leaderboard: $ / GB transfer

110 plans match. Showing the top 40.

#PlanAll-in / mo$ / GB transfer
01VultrHigh Performance AMD 1 vCPU / 1 GB1 vCPU · 1 GB · 25 GB NVMe · 2,048 GB/mo$6.00/mo$0.0029
02VultrHigh Performance Intel 1 vCPU / 1 GB1 vCPU · 1 GB · 25 GB NVMe · 2,048 GB/mo$6.00/mo$0.0029
03AWS LightsailGeneral purpose 1 GB2 vCPU · 1 GB · 40 GB SSD · 2,000 GB/moburstable$7.00/mo$0.0035
04VultrHigh Performance AMD 1 vCPU / 2 GB1 vCPU · 2 GB · 50 GB NVMe · 3,072 GB/mo$12.00/mo$0.0039
05VultrHigh Performance Intel 1 vCPU / 2 GB1 vCPU · 2 GB · 50 GB NVMe · 3,072 GB/mo$12.00/mo$0.0039
06AWS LightsailGeneral purpose 2 GB2 vCPU · 2 GB · 60 GB SSD · 3,000 GB/moburstable$12.00/mo$0.004
07VultrHigh Performance AMD 2 vCPU / 2 GB2 vCPU · 2 GB · 60 GB NVMe · 4,096 GB/mo$18.00/mo$0.0044
08VultrHigh Performance Intel 2 vCPU / 2 GB2 vCPU · 2 GB · 60 GB NVMe · 4,096 GB/mo$18.00/mo$0.0044
09VultrHigh Performance AMD 2 vCPU / 4 GB2 vCPU · 4 GB · 100 GB NVMe · 5,120 GB/mo$24.00/mo$0.0047
10VultrHigh Performance Intel 2 vCPU / 4 GB2 vCPU · 4 GB · 100 GB NVMe · 5,120 GB/mo$24.00/mo$0.0047
11VultrCloud Compute Regular 1 vCPU / 1 GB1 vCPU · 1 GB · 25 GB SSD · 1,024 GB/mo$5.00/mo$0.0049
12VultrCloud Compute Regular 1 vCPU / 2 GB1 vCPU · 2 GB · 55 GB SSD · 2,048 GB/mo$10.00/mo$0.0049
13VultrCloud Compute Regular 2 vCPU / 2 GB2 vCPU · 2 GB · 65 GB SSD · 3,072 GB/mo$15.00/mo$0.0049
14AWS LightsailGeneral purpose 0.5 GB2 vCPU · 0.5 GB · 20 GB SSD · 1,000 GB/moburstable$5.00/mo$0.005
15Akamai / LinodeNanode 1GB1 vCPU · 1 GB · 25 GB SSD · 1,000 Mbps · 1,000 GB/mo$5.00/mo$0.005
16VultrHigh Frequency 1 vCPU / 1 GB1 vCPU · 1 GB · 32 GB NVMe · 1,024 GB/mo$6.00/mo$0.0059
17VultrHigh Frequency 1 vCPU / 2 GB1 vCPU · 2 GB · 64 GB NVMe · 2,048 GB/mo$12.00/mo$0.0059
18VultrHigh Frequency 2 vCPU / 2 GB2 vCPU · 2 GB · 80 GB NVMe · 3,072 GB/mo$18.00/mo$0.0059
19DigitalOceanBasic Regular 1 vCPU / 1 GiB1 vCPU · 1 GB · 25 GB SSD · 1,000 GB/mo$6.00/mo$0.006
20DigitalOceanBasic Regular 1 vCPU / 2 GiB1 vCPU · 2 GB · 50 GB SSD · 2,000 GB/mo$12.00/mo$0.006
21Akamai / LinodeLinode 2GB1 vCPU · 2 GB · 50 GB SSD · 2,000 Mbps · 2,000 GB/mo$12.00/mo$0.006
22DigitalOceanBasic Regular 2 vCPU / 2 GiB2 vCPU · 2 GB · 60 GB SSD · 3,000 GB/mo$18.00/mo$0.006
23DigitalOceanBasic Regular 2 vCPU / 4 GiB2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD · 4,000 GB/mo$24.00/mo$0.006
24AWS LightsailGeneral purpose 4 GB2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD · 4,000 GB/moburstable$24.00/mo$0.006
25Akamai / LinodeLinode 4GB2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD · 4,000 Mbps · 4,000 GB/mo$24.00/mo$0.006
26VultrCloud Compute Regular 2 vCPU / 4 GB2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD · 3,072 GB/mo$20.00/mo$0.0065
27VultrCloud Compute Regular 1 vCPU / 0.5 GB1 vCPU · 0.5 GB · 10 GB SSD · 512 GB/mo$3.50/mo$0.0068
28VultrOptimized Cloud 1 vCPU / 2 GB1 vCPU · 2 GB · 25 GB NVMe · 4,096 GB/modedicated$28.00/mo$0.0068
29VultrOptimized Cloud 1 vCPU / 4 GB1 vCPU · 4 GB · 30 GB NVMe · 4,096 GB/modedicated$30.00/mo$0.0073
30VultrHigh Frequency 2 vCPU / 4 GB2 vCPU · 4 GB · 128 GB NVMe · 3,072 GB/mo$24.00/mo$0.0078
31VultrOptimized Cloud 2 vCPU / 4 GB2 vCPU · 4 GB · 50 GB NVMe · 5,120 GB/modedicated$40.00/mo$0.0078
32VultrOptimized Cloud 1 vCPU / 8 GB1 vCPU · 8 GB · 50 GB NVMe · 5,120 GB/modedicated$40.00/mo$0.0078
33VultrHigh Performance AMD 4 vCPU / 8 GB4 vCPU · 8 GB · 180 GB NVMe · 6,144 GB/mo$48.00/mo$0.0078
34VultrHigh Performance Intel 4 vCPU / 8 GB4 vCPU · 8 GB · 180 GB NVMe · 6,144 GB/mo$48.00/mo$0.0078
35DigitalOceanBasic Regular 1 vCPU / 0.5 GiB1 vCPU · 0.5 GB · 10 GB SSD · 500 GB/mo$4.00/mo$0.008
36AWS LightsailCompute-optimized 4 GB2 vCPU · 4 GB · 160 GB SSD · 5,000 GB/modedicated$42.00/mo$0.0084
37AWS LightsailGeneral purpose 8 GB2 vCPU · 8 GB · 160 GB SSD · 5,000 GB/moburstable$44.00/mo$0.0088
38VultrOptimized Cloud 2 vCPU / 4 GB2 vCPU · 4 GB · 75 GB NVMe · 5,120 GB/modedicated$45.00/mo$0.0088
39Akamai / LinodeDedicated 4GB2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD · 4,000 Mbps · 4,000 GB/modedicated$36.00/mo$0.009
40DigitalOceanBasic Regular 4 vCPU / 8 GiB4 vCPU · 8 GB · 160 GB SSD · 5,000 GB/mo$48.00/mo$0.0096

How the ranking works

  • All-in monthly price. List price in USD before tax, plus the provider’s public IPv4 fee when IPv4 is not included (Scaleway). IPv6-only plans are hidden unless you switch off “Needs public IPv4”. Scaleway prices are in EUR and converted at the daily ECB reference rate.
  • Unit cost. All-in price divided by one spec. Lower is better. A plan without a published figure is left out of that tab, for example Scaleway disks (billed separately) or port speeds most providers do not publish.
  • Transfer. Plans with unmetered traffic (OVHcloud, Scaleway) are excluded from the $/GB transfer tab, because the cost per GB depends on how much you use.
  • What this is not. A vCPU from one provider is not the same speed as a vCPU from another, and shared vCPUs can be throttled. This is a price list, not a benchmark. Check the plan page and the provider before you buy.
  • Sources. Vultr, Linode, Scaleway and OVHcloud public APIs; AWS price list files for Lightsail; the DigitalOcean pricing page. Hetzner needs an API token, so it is not listed yet.