Google Cloud alternatives
Every VPS and cloud provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers Google Cloud's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from Google Cloud's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- DigitalOceanKind of free offer: Free tier vs Always free
- Oracle CloudEntry paid plan: No plan fee; compute is pay-as-you-go. The lowest published per-OCPU rate is the Arm Ampe…
- HetznerDocker deployment: Limited vs Supported · Containers: Limited vs Supported
- netcupContainers: Limited vs Supported
- LeasewebEntry paid plan: €4.99/month excluding VAT for Leaseweb VPS 1 (4 vCPU, 6 GiB, 100 GB NVMe, 30 TB traffic)…
- Alibaba CloudKind of free offer: Free credit vs Always free
- OVHcloudDocker deployment: Limited vs Supported · Containers: Limited vs Supported
- KamateraKind of free offer: Free trial vs Always free · Docker deployment: Limited vs Supported
- ContaboDocker deployment: Limited vs Supported · Containers: Limited vs Supported
- Linode (Akamai Cloud)Kind of free offer: Free credit vs Always free
- CivoKind of free offer: Free credit vs Always free
- UpCloudKind of free offer: Free trial vs Always free
- IONOS VPSKind of free offer: No free offer vs Always free · Docker deployment: Limited vs Supported
- VultrEntry paid plan: $2.50/month for vc2-1c-0.5gb-v6: 1 vCPU, 512 MB memory, 10 GB SSD, 512 GB bandwidth, IPv6…
- Hostinger VPSKind of free offer: No free offer vs Always free
- RackNerdKind of free offer: No free offer vs Always free · Docker deployment: Limited vs Supported
Where Google Cloud stands against these 16
Google Cloud'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
- Yes. 2 of the 11 alternatives that document it have one: DigitalOcean, Oracle Cloud.
- Egress over allowance
- $0.12 per GiB for Premium Tier (the default) internet data transfer out to North America from 1 GiB to 1,024…7th cheapest of the 7 that document it. Cheapest: Civo — Free: Civo charges nothing for egress or ingress, so there is no per-GB overage price.
- Included bandwidth
- 1 GiB a month of internet data transfer out to North America on Premium Tier, the default tier, which prices…10th highest of the 10 that document it. Highest: Leaseweb — 30 TB of outgoing traffic per month on every plan in the European, US and Singapore listings; incoming…
- Regions
- 43 regions and 130 zones, per Google Cloud's locations page on 2026-10-172nd highest of the 15 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…
A rank whose 80% interval overlaps its neighbour's is an ordering, not a finding; the intervals are on each provider's page and in /scores.json.