33 VPS providers with US datacenters, compared on price, US locations, transfer allowance and billing rules, with a pick for each kind of project. Prices are read from provider pages and public APIs.
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Sorted by our rating, which weighs published price at the sizes most people buy, billing terms, what is included and how clearly the provider states its limits. Entry prices as of September 2026; "See review" means the provider prices per configuration or per term.
Click any column header to sort. All prices are entry-level plans.
| Provider | Price/mo | vCPU | RAM | Storage | Bandwidth | DDoS | Backup | API | Rating | Action |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Kamatera | $4.00 | 1 | 1GB | 20GB NVMe | 5TB | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | 4/5 | Visit → |
| Vultr | $5.00 | 1 | 1GB | 25GB SSD | 1TB | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4.5/5 | Visit → |
| DigitalOcean | $4.00 | 1 | 512MB | 10GB SSD | 0.5TB | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | 4.2/5 | Visit → |
| Linode (Akamai) | $5.00 | 1 | 1GB | 25GB Not stated | 1TB | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4.4/5 | Visit → |
| Contabo | $6.60 | 4 | 8GB | 100GB SSD | Unlimited | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | 4/5 | Visit → |
| InterServer | $3.00 | 1 | 2GB | 40GB SSD | 2TB | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 4.3/5 | Visit → |
| Hostinger VPS | $6.49 | 1 | 4GB | 50GB NVMe | 4TB | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4.3/5 | Visit → |
| RackNerd | $2.25 | 1 | 512MB | 30GB SSD | 0.5TB | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 3.9/5 | Visit → |
| Hetzner Cloud | $20.49 | 2 | 2GB | 40GB NVMe | 1TB | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4.2/5 | Visit → |
| Hostwinds | $4.99 | 1 | 1GB | 30GB SSD | 1TB | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | 4.2/5 | Visit → |
| ScalaHosting | See review | See review | See review | See review | See review | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 4/5 | Visit → |
| AWS Lightsail | $5.00 | 2 | 512MB | 20GB SSD | 1TB | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | 4/5 | Visit → |
| BuyVM (Frantech) | $3.50 | 1 | 1GB | 20GB SSD | Unlimited | ✓ | ✗ | ✗ | 4.2/5 | Visit → |
| InMotion Hosting | $9.99 | 4 | See review | See review | See review | ✓ | ✓ | ✗ | 4/5 | Visit → |
| GreenGeeks | $69.95 | 4 | 4GB | See review | See review | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | 3.9/5 | Visit → |
| Google Cloud | See review | See review | See review | See review | See review | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4.2/5 | Visit → |
| Microsoft Azure | See review | See review | See review | See review | See review | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4.1/5 | Visit → |
| Cherry Servers | See review | See review | See review | See review | See review | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 3.9/5 | Visit → |
| A2 Hosting | $11.99 | See review | See review | See review | See review | ✗ | ✗ | ✗ | 4.1/5 | Visit → |
| CloudCone | $2.33 | 2 | 1GB | 30GB SSD | 4TB | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ | 3.8/5 | Visit → |
| Cloudways | $11.00 | See review | See review | See review | See review | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | 4.3/5 | Visit → |
| DreamHost | See review | See review | See review | See review | See review | ✗ | ✓ | ✗ | 3.9/5 | Visit → |
| IONOS | $11.00 | 2 | 4GB | 120GB NVMe | Unlimited | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | 4/5 | Visit → |
| Liquid Web | $5.00 | See review | See review | See review | See review | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4.1/5 | Visit → |
| OVHcloud | $5.35 | 2 | 4GB | 40GB NVMe | Unlimited | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | 4.2/5 | Visit → |
| UpCloud | See review | 1 | 2GB | See review | See review | ✗ | ✓ | ✓ | 4.3/5 | Visit → |
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Maximum value for minimum budget.
Speed-optimized for WP sites.
Low-latency game servers.
Ultra-low latency for trading.
Container-ready infrastructure.
RDP-ready Windows servers.
Minecraft, ARK, Valheim, Rust & more.
Unmetered bandwidth for privacy.
API, hourly billing, CI/CD ready.
High CPU/RAM for crawling & scraping.
No rented test fleet and no benchmark figures of our own. Every number is a provider's published one, read on a stated date.
Plan prices, specifications and locations come from the provider's own plan page or public API (Hetzner's price API, Vultr's and Linode's plans endpoints, OVHcloud's catalog) on the day a page is updated, and each revised page lists its sources.
Each comparison page states its ranking rule (cheapest at 2 GB in a US datacenter, transfer per dollar, Windows with the license included) before prices are collected. A provider is first only on pages whose rule it wins.
Refund rules, support scope, port and traffic statements are quoted from the provider's FAQ or terms rather than paraphrased, so you can read what you are agreeing to.
Where performance matters, pages point to provider speed-test files and to fio and iperf3 commands you can run on an hourly server, because a number measured on your plan today is worth more than one we could publish.
Ratings weigh price at the size in question, published terms, what is included, and transparency. Editorial policy · About the site
Three picks for three different buyers, at September 2026 prices. Each wins the rule its page is ranked by; none wins every rule.
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Each wins a narrower rule. Prices as of September 2026.
Prices are entry-level monthly plans read from provider pages and public APIs in September 2026. See all 33 provider reviews →
Which type is right for you? Here's how they compare across key factors.
| Feature | Unmanaged VPS | Managed VPS |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly Cost | $2.50 – $12/mo | $14 – $50/mo |
| Server Setup | ⚠ You handle it (SSH, CLI) | ✔ Done for you |
| Security Updates | ⚠ Manual patching | ✔ Automatic |
| Control Panel | ⚠ CLI only (or install yourself) | ✔ cPanel / custom dashboard |
| Performance | ✔ Full resources, no overhead | ✔ Optimized stacks |
| Flexibility | ✔ Root access, any software | ⚠ Limited to supported stacks |
| Best Providers | Vultr, Hetzner, DigitalOcean | Cloudways, ScalaHosting, InMotion |
| Ideal For | Developers, DevOps, cost-conscious | Agencies, non-technical, WordPress |
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Minecraft, ARK, Valheim, Rust: game servers need enough RAM, a nearby datacenter and a port that is not capped. We compare plans on those published terms. Best VPS for Game Servers →
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Try the VPS Calculator →It depends on the rule. For the lowest monthly price at 2 GB in a US datacenter, InterServer ($3 a slice, New York City, Los Angeles, Dallas). For 4 GB, OVHcloud VPS-1 ($5.35, Virginia or Oregon, backup included). For hourly billing, an API and the most US regions, Vultr (from $5, nine regions). For the most memory per dollar, Contabo ($6.60 for 8 GB on a 200 Mbit/s port). Prices are from the providers' pages and APIs in September 2026.
For a usable Linux server (2 GB), InterServer at $3 a month. Below that are 512 MB servers: Vultr at $3.50, DigitalOcean at $4, and RackNerd at $26.99 a year (about $2.25 a month), with RackNerd's promotional prices lower during its sales. The cheapest VPS page ranks every plan under $7.
No. This site publishes no CPU, disk or network measurements of its own, and pages that once carried such figures are being revised to remove them. Pages quote what providers publish (port statements, traffic allowances, storage type) and show how to measure a server yourself with fio and iperf3 on an hourly plan.
If you can administer Linux (SSH, packages, a firewall, backups), an unmanaged plan is the cheaper buy and most plans on this site are unmanaged. If you need someone to fix the operating system, price a managed tier: Hostwinds sells one from $10.99 for 1 GB, InterServer includes OS-level support on every plan and fuller managed support from 8 slices ($24), and panel hosts such as InMotion (from $9.99 on a 24-month term) and GreenGeeks (from $69.95) are fully managed.
A 4 GB plan with a page cache and a database on the same box: OVHcloud VPS-1 ($5.35, NVMe, backup included) or InterServer 2 slices ($6, three US cities, OS-level support). For a managed WordPress stack on cloud infrastructure, Cloudways from $11 a month. The WordPress VPS page goes through sizing.
Cloud platforms (Vultr, DigitalOcean, Linode, Hetzner) bill by the hour, expose an API and include snapshots; fixed-price hosts (InterServer, OVHcloud, Contabo, Hostwinds, RackNerd) bill monthly and cost less per gigabyte. For a server that runs all month and is never scripted, the fixed-price host is the better buy; for servers you create and destroy, the cloud platform is.
In a US datacenter, billed monthly with no contract: $3 to $6 for 2 to 4 GB (InterServer, OVHcloud), $10 to $12 for 8 GB (OVHcloud, InterServer) or $6.60 at Contabo on a slower port, and $24 to $27.50 for 16 to 24 GB. Cloud platforms cost two to four times that at the same memory. Windows adds $9 to $10 a month or more. The VPS pricing page has the full table and a calculator.