VPS hosting pricing: first term and renewal (5 services)
As of , we list 5 VPS hosting services. The lowest first-term price is IONOS VPS VPS S+ at $2/month on the 3-month plan, which renews at $6/month. The lowest cost for the first 2 years is DigitalOcean Droplets at $96 (Basic Regular 512 MiB, monthly plan, renewals included).
Prices are from each vendor's official site, checked on . This page has no affiliate links.
DigitalOcean Droplets plansPricing page (source)
Entry-level unmanaged and managed cloud VPS plans for one owner. Dedicated servers, Kubernetes, GPU and reseller plans are excluded. Only values shown on each vendor's official site are listed. Checked .
| Service | 2-year cost | Lowest first-term price | vCPU, RAM and storage |
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| DigitalOcean Droplets | $96Basic Regular 512 MiB, monthly | $4/moBasic Regular 512 MiB, monthly. Renews at $4/mo (same price) | 1 vCPU, 512 MiB RAM, 10 GiB SSD, 500 GiB transfer |
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| Akamai Cloud (Linode) | $120Nanode 1 GB, monthly | $5/moNanode 1 GB, monthly. Renews at $5/mo (same price) | 1 CPU, 1 GB RAM, 25 GB storage, 1 TB transfer |
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| IONOS VPS | $132VPS S+, 3-month | $2/moVPS S+, 3 months. Renews at $6/mo | 1 vCore, 2 GB RAM, 60 GB NVMe, unlimited traffic |
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| DreamHost VPS | $362.76Stack 4, 3-month | $8.99/moStack 4, 3 months. Renews at $15.99/mo | 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 75 GB NVMe, unmetered bandwidth |
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How the columns are calculated
- Lowest first-term price: the lowest per-month price on any billing term. Long terms are paid up front.
- Renews at: the price for the same plan after the first term, from the pricing page footnotes, checkout or terms. "same price" means the page shows a regular price with no first-term discount.
- 2-year cost: the amount paid for the first 24 months of service on the lowest-cost option with a billing term of 24 months or less, counting the first term and then whole renewal periods at the renewal price. If the vendor does not state the renewal period, we assume the plan renews for the same term. Terms with bonus months can cover more than 24 months. Terms longer than 24 months are not used in this column.
- Money-back: the refund window stated by the vendor. Conditions differ by vendor.
Services with renewal prices are compared on the renewal price page.
VPS hosting pricing by service
- Hostinger pricing
- DigitalOcean Droplets pricing
- Akamai Cloud (Linode) pricing
- IONOS VPS pricing
- DreamHost VPS pricing
VPS hosting side-by-side comparisons
- DigitalOcean Droplets vs Akamai Cloud (Linode)
- DigitalOcean Droplets vs IONOS VPS
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- Akamai Cloud (Linode) vs IONOS VPS
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How this data is collected: Prices are read by hand from each vendor's official pricing page, checkout page or terms, and stored with the date and source URL. Renewal prices are listed next to first-term prices. Last checked .