UpCloud alternatives

VPS and cloud · 15 alternatives · UpCloud iScore 56 (#13/16)

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

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Where UpCloud stands against these 15

UpCloud'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: $3.5/month for the cheapest Starter plan: 1 CPU core, 1 GB memory and 10 GB of standard SSD storage, at…3rd 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, only for customers who opt in to the paid transfer model, and only on egress beyond the Fair…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): 10 GB of standard-performance SSD storage on the cheapest Starter plan ($3.5/month, 1 GB memory)Joint 14th 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 Starter plan ($3.5/month, 1 CPU core, 10 GB storage)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.
Included bandwidth: 0.5 TB a month of public egress for the cheapest Starter plan (STARTER-1xCPU-1GB), under the Fair Transfer…9th 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: 15 data centres: Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Frankfurt, Helsinki (two), London, Madrid, Stavanger, Stockholm and…6th 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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