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VPS and cloud · 15 alternatives · Civo iScore 57 (#10/16)

Every VPS and cloud provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Civo's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Civo's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.

Ranked by iScore
  1. Oracle CloudKind of free offer: Always free vs Free credit66#1/16
  2. DigitalOceanKind of free offer: Free tier vs Free credit65#2/16
  3. HetznerEntry paid plan: €5.99/month for the CX23 (2 vCPU, 4 GB, 40 GB NVMe), including a primary IPv4 address, or…61#3/16
  4. netcupEntry paid plan: €2.21/month for VPS pico G11.5s (1 vCore, 1 GB RAM, 30 GB SSD, IPv4 + IPv6), on a 12-mont…59#4/16
  5. Alibaba CloudEntry paid plan: $4/month for SAS 2vCPU 0.5GiB (2 vCPUs, 0.5 GiB memory, 20 GiB system disk, up to 200 Mbi…58#5/16
  6. OVHcloudEntry paid plan: $5.35/month for VPS-1 (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe) with no commitment, excluding tax, o…58#6/16
  7. LeasewebEntry paid plan: €4.99/month excluding VAT for Leaseweb VPS 1 (4 vCPU, 6 GiB, 100 GB NVMe, 30 TB traffic)…58#7/16
  8. KamateraKind of free offer: Free trial vs Free credit · Managed databases: Limited vs Supported57#8/16
  9. ContaboManaged databases: Not supported vs Supported57#9/16
  10. Linode (Akamai Cloud)Entry paid plan: $5.00/month for g6-nanode-1, the Nanode 1GB shared-CPU plan. Two regions are priced above…56#11/16
  11. VultrEntry paid plan: $2.50/month for vc2-1c-0.5gb-v6: 1 vCPU, 512 MB memory, 10 GB SSD, 512 GB bandwidth, IPv6…56#12/16
  12. UpCloudKind of free offer: Free trial vs Free credit56#13/16
  13. IONOS VPSKind of free offer: No free offer vs Free credit55#14/16
  14. Hostinger VPSKind of free offer: No free offer vs Free credit53#15/16
  15. RackNerdKind of free offer: No free offer vs Free credit52#16/16

Where Civo stands against these 15

Civo's own sourced figures, placed among the alternatives above that document the same thing in the same unit. A rank here is one criterion, not a verdict; the iScore above weighs all of them.

Free tier
No. 2 of the 10 alternatives that document it have one: DigitalOcean, Oracle Cloud.
Entry paid plan
$5.43/month ($0.007440/hour) for the xSmall Standard compute instance: 1 core, 1 GB RAM, 25GB NVMe, with free…9th cheapest of the 15 that document it. Cheapest: Vultr — $2.50/month for vc2-1c-0.5gb-v6: 1 vCPU, 512 MB memory, 10 GB SSD, 512 GB bandwidth, IPv6 only — and…
Egress over allowance
Free: Civo charges nothing for egress or ingress, so there is no per-GB overage priceCheapest of the 6 that document it. Next: Oracle Cloud — $0.0085 per GB for outbound transfer originating in North America, Europe and UK beyond the first 10,240 GB a…
Storage (entry plan)
25GB of NVMe storage on the cheapest compute instance, xSmall ($5.43/month, 1 GB RAM)10th highest of the 15 that document it. Highest: Contabo — 100 GB SSD on Cloud VPS 4, the smallest plan in the Core VPS line; a paid Storage Extension doubles it.
Memory (entry plan)
1 GB on the cheapest compute instance, xSmall ($5.43/month, 1 core, 25GB NVMe)Joint 7th highest of the 15 that document it. Highest: Contabo — 8 GB RAM on Cloud VPS 4, the smallest plan in the Core VPS line.
Regions
4 public regions: London (LON1), Frankfurt (FRA1), New York (NYC1) and Mumbai (MUM1)14th highest of the 14 that document it. Highest: Oracle Cloud — 45 regions in the commercial-realm table of Oracle's Regions and Availability Domains page on 2026-09-25: 44…
Uptime SLA
99.95% monthly uptime for all Civo public and private cloud servicesJoint 5th highest of the 11 that document it. Highest: RackNerd — 99.999% for network transit and for electricity, measured monthly.

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