# Kamatera

Canonical: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/kamatera/

Cloud provider selling configurable virtual servers billed monthly or hourly, with block storage, private networks, load balancers, firewalls and managed services, from data centres worldwide.

## Who it suits

Configurable cloud servers from $4 a month (1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe, 5 TB of traffic) in 21 data centres, billed monthly or by the minute, with a 30-day free trial of one server worth up to $100.

Consider something else if You want a simple traffic allowance or firm guarantees: the 5 TB counts traffic in both directions and falls to 1 TB in Asia, with $0.01 per GB beyond; the SLA is 99.9% with credits at Kamatera's discretion; backups are a paid add-on; and the trial needs a card.

## iScore

57 / 100 (80% interval 50–64), rank 8 of 16 in hosting — interval overlaps the next rank, so this is an ordering, not a finding.

inetGeek's own reading, computed from sourced facts against category peers by disclosed rules. Not a provider claim. Intervals are 80%; a provider with few documented facts is pulled toward the category middle rather than scored on what little is known.
Method: https://inetgeek.com/iscore/. Full output with every criterion's basis: https://inetgeek.com/scores.json. Every hosting peer ranked: https://inetgeek.com/hosting/kamatera/alternatives/

- Price: 35 (19–51), weight 29%, 5 of 5 criteria scored
- Capacity and limits: 55 (44–65), weight 29%, 5 of 6 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: file_count_limit
- Capabilities: 76 (70–82), weight 10%, 4 of 11 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: autoscaling, connection_pooling, edge_network, git_deploy, persistent_processes, scale_to_zero, scheduled_jobs
- Trust and compliance: 77 (68–86), weight 14%, 4 of 13 criteria scored; scored for peers, not here — undocumented or stated without a number or a yes/limited/no: customer_managed_keys, dedicated_infrastructure, encryption_at_rest, hipaa_eligible, iso27001, pci_dss, rbac, soc2, support_included
- Evidence: 89 (89–89), weight 10%, 4 of 4 criteria scored
- Adoption: 51 (9–94), weight 10%, 0 of 2 criteria scored

## What the documentation says

### Pricing

- Free tier: No — A 30-day free trial only; services are charged once it ends. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/what-are-the-terms-of-the-free-trial/), read 2026-09-25)
- Kind of free offer: Free trial ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/free-trial/), read 2026-09-25)
- What the free plan includes: For 30 days: one cloud server of any configuration valued up to $100, 1 TB of block storage and 1 TB of traffic (incoming and outgoing), scalable within the $100 configuration. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/free-trial/), read 2026-09-25)
- Credit card to start: Yes — The card is not charged if usage stays within the trial limits. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/what-are-the-terms-of-the-free-trial/), read 2026-09-25)
- When the free offer ends: After 30 days. Servers not terminated by then start being charged for the services used. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/what-are-the-terms-of-the-free-trial/), read 2026-09-25)
- Entry paid plan: $4/month for the Basic preset server: 1 vCPU of Type A – Availability (a non-dedicated CPU thread), 1 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe SSD and 5 TB of traffic. It is a standing monthly price with no contract; no promotional or introductory rate is shown. The preset is priced once, beside a selector of all 21 data centres, and the page does not say the price varies by location. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-25)
- Pricing model: Monthly or hourly billing, with no long-term contract. Monthly servers are prepaid for the month, with upgrades prorated; hourly servers are billed by the minute, and what they cost depends on whether the server is powered on or off. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-25)
- Egress over allowance: $0.01 per GB of traffic above a monthly server's quota (5 TB, or 1 TB in Asia); the quota and the overage count traffic received as well as sent. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/will-i-ever-be-charged-extra-for-internet-traffic-on-a-monthly-server-plan/), read 2026-09-25)
- When you exceed a cap: Billed, not throttled: traffic over a monthly server's quota is charged at $0.01 per GB. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/will-i-ever-be-charged-extra-for-internet-traffic-on-a-monthly-server-plan/), read 2026-09-25)

### Limits

- Storage (entry plan): 20 GB NVMe SSD on the Basic preset ($4/month), the cheapest server priced on Kamatera's pricing page. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-25)
- Memory (entry plan): 1 GB RAM on the Basic preset ($4/month), the cheapest server priced on Kamatera's pricing page. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-25)
- Included bandwidth: 5 TB a month per monthly-billed server, counting traffic in both directions; 1 TB a month for servers in Hong Kong, Sydney, Tokyo and Singapore. The free trial gets 1 TB. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/what-are-the-limits-on-internet-data-on-monthly-server-plans/), read 2026-09-25)

### Deployment

- Docker deployment: Limited ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/marketplace/), read 2026-09-25)
- Containers: Limited ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/marketplace/), read 2026-09-25)

### Infrastructure

- Persistent storage: Supported ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/products/block-storage/), read 2026-09-25)
- Managed databases: Limited ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/solutions/managed-cloud-services/), read 2026-09-25)
- Regions: 21 data centres: Sydney, Toronto, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Tel Aviv, Milan, Tokyo, Bucharest, Singapore, Madrid, Stockholm, Amsterdam and London, and in the US Atlanta, Los Angeles, Santa Clara, Miami, Chicago, New York, Seattle and Dallas. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/pricing/), read 2026-09-25)
- Uptime SLA: 99.9% availability, defined as up to 8 hours of unavailability per service year, in the Service Level Agreement. The credit for a breach is one month of the failed service free, up to US$5,000 and once every 12 months; claims are due within 14 days, and Kamatera may reject any claim at its sole discretion. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/service-level-agreement/), read 2026-09-25)

### Data

- Backup retention: 14 days: the paid daily-backup add-on backs a server up once a day at 00:00 (by data-centre location) and keeps each backup for 14 days. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/solutions/backups/), read 2026-09-25)

### Support

- Support on entry paid plan: Technical support 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, by chat, phone or email, from Kamatera's worldwide technical support center. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/support/), read 2026-09-25)
- Response time commitment: 1 hour for critical incidents, by ticket or phone, on unmanaged servers (no charge). Pro Managed ($50/month) responds in 30 minutes by ticket and immediately by phone, Premium Managed ($150/month) in 15 minutes and immediately. Published for critical incidents only. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/solutions/managed-cloud-services/), read 2026-09-25)

### Compliance

- SOC 2: Data-centre facilities only: Kamatera describes its data centres as 'AICPA – SOC 2 – Type II compliant or better'. The page names no SOC 2 report for Kamatera's own cloud service. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/data-centers/), read 2026-09-25)
- HIPAA: Stated in passing: the managed cloud services page says Kamatera's solutions 'provide a range of compliance options, including HIPAA, PCI, and GDPR', without mentioning a business associate agreement or which services are covered. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/solutions/managed-cloud-services/), read 2026-09-25)
- GDPR / data residency: The customer picks the data-centre location where its data is processed, and Kamatera's DPA says it will not move customer data out of that location except to provide a service the customer started, at the customer's request, or to comply with law. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/gdpr-and-data-processing/), read 2026-09-25)
- PCI DSS: Stated in passing: the managed cloud services page says Kamatera's solutions 'provide a range of compliance options, including HIPAA, PCI, and GDPR', without naming a PCI DSS attestation, level or scope. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/solutions/managed-cloud-services/), read 2026-09-25)
- Encryption at rest: Stated in passing for virtual dedicated servers: the VDS page lists 'end-to-end encrypted storage' among its safeguards, without describing the mechanism, its scope or who holds the keys. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/products/virtual-dedicated-servers/), read 2026-09-25)
- Role-based access control: Console users and groups: the account owner can add users and groups and assign them to servers with 'Access' permission for viewing, or 'Access' plus 'Configuration' for full control. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/group-management/), read 2026-09-25)
- Private networking / VPC: Private VLANs: multiple WANs or VLANs can be added to a server from the console, by adding a network interface and creating a new VLAN. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/adding-new-vlan/), read 2026-09-25)
- Dedicated infrastructure: CPU type decides it: Type D (Dedicated) servers get a dedicated physical CPU core (2 threads) with reserved resources, from $19/month; Type B a dedicated CPU thread; Type A, the $4 tier, a non-dedicated thread with no resources guaranteed. ([source](https://www.kamatera.com/faq/answer/which-cpu-types-are-offered-by-kamatera/), read 2026-09-25)