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How VPS pricing actually works: per-GB RAM, egress and the licence that is not in the headline price

Published 2026-09-19 · prices last read from the providers 2026-11-06T10:20:01Z (UTC).

Cheapest RAM per unit today is IONOS VPS XXL+ at 0.8333 USD per GB (20.0 USD / 24 GB) — computed only from numbers the provider published. 25 of 25 priced plans can be ranked at all.

Monthly price per GB of RAM, computed from published prices (How VPS pricing actually works: per-GB RAM, egress and the licence that is not in the headline price)

Every number on this page is published by the provider or computed from a published number with the formula shown. Nothing here is estimated. Source page and UTC read time are next to each figure.

Why the headline price cannot rank plans

Two plans at the same monthly price are not the same product. One may include twice the memory of the other, or include it in a different currency, or leave the memory figure off the pricing page altogether. Dividing the published price by the published RAM figure is the only comparison that needs no assumption.

The three inputs a per-GB number needs

  1. The plan's monthly price, exactly as published.
  2. The RAM figure for that same plan, from the same page.
  3. Which page and which read time the two came from.

If any of the three is missing, the per-GB number is unknown. This site leaves the cell empty in that case; it does not estimate.

What this site does not do

It does not convert currencies, because a converted number is no longer the number the provider published. It does not treat a promotional first-month price as the ongoing price. It does not compare a plan's price against another plan's specification.

Questions this page answers

How much does a cheap VPS cost per month?

The lowest monthly price across the plans used in this explainer is 2 USD (IONOS VPS S+); the highest in the same list is 328.99 USD. 25 plans carry a published monthly price.

Which plan is cheapest per GB of RAM?

IONOS VPS XXL+ at 0.8333 USD/GB (20 USD / 24 GB) across the plans used in this explainer, computed from published numbers only.

Can I compare a price per GB of RAM at all?

25 of 25 priced plans across the plans used in this explainer publish a RAM figure next to the price, so the division is possible for those. Every one of them is rankable on this page.

Which providers are tracked?

Across the plans used in this explainer, 5 providers publish a price we can read: BuyVM, Hostwinds, IONOS, OVHcloud, netcup. A provider whose page we cannot read a price on is listed as unread rather than filled in.

How many plans publish both a price and a RAM figure?

25 of 25 priced plans across the plans used in this explainer publish both a price and a RAM figure. That is the row count you can divide to get a price per GB of RAM; nothing outside that set is estimated.

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What this page is filling

The benchmarked pages list plan prices but do not break them down per unit. This page computes the per-unit figure from published prices only, and is explicit about which plans cannot be computed at all.

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