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VPS and cloud · 15 alternatives · Kamatera iScore 57 (#8/16)

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

Ranked by iScore
  1. Oracle CloudKind of free offer: Always free vs Free trial · Docker deployment: Supported vs Limited66#1/16
  2. DigitalOceanKind of free offer: Free tier vs Free trial · Docker deployment: Supported vs Limited65#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 CloudKind of free offer: Free credit vs Free trial · Docker deployment: Supported vs Limited58#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. LeasewebContainers: Supported vs Limited58#7/16
  8. ContaboManaged databases: Not supported vs Limited57#9/16
  9. CivoKind of free offer: Free credit vs Free trial · Managed databases: Supported vs Limited57#10/16
  10. Linode (Akamai Cloud)Kind of free offer: Free credit vs Free trial · Containers: Supported vs Limited56#11/16
  11. VultrContainers: Supported vs Limited · Managed databases: Supported vs Limited56#12/16
  12. UpCloudContainers: Supported vs Limited · Managed databases: Supported vs Limited56#13/16
  13. IONOS VPSKind of free offer: No free offer vs Free trial55#14/16
  14. Hostinger VPSKind of free offer: No free offer vs Free trial · Docker deployment: Supported vs Limited53#15/16
  15. RackNerdKind of free offer: No free offer vs Free trial52#16/16

Where Kamatera stands against these 15

Kamatera'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
$4/month for the Basic preset server: 1 vCPU of Type A – Availability (a non-dedicated CPU thread), 1 GB RAM…Joint 4th 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
$0.01 per GB of traffic above a monthly server's quota (5 TB, or 1 TB in Asia); the quota and the overage…Joint 3rd cheapest of the 6 that document it. Cheapest: Civo — Free: Civo charges nothing for egress or ingress, so there is no per-GB overage price.
Storage (entry plan)
20 GB NVMe SSD on the Basic preset ($4/month), the cheapest server priced on Kamatera's pricing page12th 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 RAM on the Basic preset ($4/month), the cheapest server priced on Kamatera's pricing pageJoint 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.
Included bandwidth
5 TB a month per monthly-billed server, counting traffic in both directions; 1 TB a month for servers in Hong…4th highest of the 9 that document it. Highest: Leaseweb — 30 TB of outgoing traffic per month on every plan in the European, US and Singapore listings; incoming…
Regions
21 data centres: Sydney, Toronto, Hong Kong, Frankfurt, Tel Aviv, Milan, Tokyo, Bucharest, Singapore, Madrid…5th 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…

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