Cheapest VPS, by the real bill

Why the cheapest price tag is often not the cheapest server: many low prices are introductory. They apply to the first term only, sometimes only when you pay one to four years in advance, and the plan then renews at a higher monthly price. Other plans look cheap because the public IPv4 address is a separate line on the invoice. Over twelve months those extras can matter more than the gap between two price tags, so this page compares the whole bill.

What “best” means here: providers cannot buy a position, and the order ignores reviews and commissions. It is the bill under the assumptions shown above the list, with a fixed tie-break, and the methodology page explains every step. If you need more than the lowest price, narrow the list first (memory, dedicated cores, a country close to your users) and then compare the bills that are left.

How to read a row: the large figure is the average monthly bill over the chosen period, and the price the provider advertises sits beside it. The difference is what the advertised price leaves out. Open a server to see each line of its bill, where every price comes from and when it was last checked.