RackNerd alternatives
Every VPS and cloud provider this site tracks, ordered by iScore — the same peers RackNerd's own score is measured against. The line under each name is where its sourced facts differ from RackNerd's; where a full comparison exists, the row links to it.
- Oracle CloudKind of free offer: Always free vs No free offer · Docker deployment: Supported vs Limited
- DigitalOceanKind of free offer: Free tier vs No free offer · Docker deployment: Supported vs Limited
- HetznerEntry paid plan: €5.99/month for the CX23 (2 vCPU, 4 GB, 40 GB NVMe), including a primary IPv4 address, or…
- 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…
- Alibaba CloudKind of free offer: Free credit vs No free offer · Docker deployment: Supported vs Limited
- OVHcloudEntry paid plan: $5.35/month for VPS-1 (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe) with no commitment, excluding tax, o…
- LeasewebContainers: Supported vs Limited
- KamateraKind of free offer: Free trial vs No free offer
- ContaboEntry paid plan: €5.50/month for Cloud VPS 4 (4 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 100 GB SSD) on a one-month term, with no s…
- CivoKind of free offer: Free credit vs No free offer
- Linode (Akamai Cloud)Kind of free offer: Free credit vs No free offer · Containers: Supported vs Limited
- VultrContainers: Supported vs Limited
- UpCloudKind of free offer: Free trial vs No free offer · Containers: Supported vs Limited
- IONOS VPSEntry paid plan: $6/month for VPS S+ (1 vCore, 2 GB RAM, 60 GB NVMe), the regular price the plan card show…
- Hostinger VPSDocker deployment: Supported vs Limited · Containers: Supported vs Limited
Where RackNerd stands against these 15
RackNerd'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
- $17.99/month for the 1 GB KVM plan (2 vCore, 50 GB SSD), the cheapest plan billed monthly15th 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…
- Storage (entry plan)
- 50 GB RAID-10 SSD on the 1 GB KVM plan, the cheapest plan billed monthlyJoint 4th 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 1 GB KVM plan, the cheapest plan billed monthlyJoint 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
- 1 TB on the 1 GB plan, the cheapest billed monthly, rising to 6 TB on the 12 GB plan, each on a 1 Gbps port…Joint 6th 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
- 12 KVM VPS locations: Los Angeles, San Jose, Seattle, Dallas, Atlanta, Chicago, New York, Ashburn, Amsterdam…9th 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
- 99.999% for network transit and for electricity, measured monthlyHighest of the 11 that document it. Next: DigitalOcean — 99.99% monthly uptime per individual Droplet, with a 100% service credit for any month below it.
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.