Cloud infrastructure, compared honestly.
Real pricing, real trade-offs, no pay-to-rank. 16 providers, 120 head-to-head comparisons, 25 use-case guides.
Providers we track
Vultr
$2.50/moHigh-frequency compute across 32 global locations
32 regions · hourly billing · iaas
DigitalOcean
$4/moDeveloper-first droplets with managed DB/K8s/App Platform
15 regions · hourly billing · iaas, paas
Hetzner
$3.79/moGerman engineering — best price-per-vCPU in the business
6 regions · monthly billing · iaas, baremetal
Linode (Akamai)
$5/moThe original indie cloud — now backed by Akamai's edge network
20 regions · hourly billing · iaas
OVHcloud
$3.50/moEuropean giant with built-in anti-DDoS on everything
40 regions · monthly billing · iaas, baremetal
AWS Lightsail
$3.50/moAmazon's simplified VPS — fixed bundles, AWS escape hatch
14 regions · monthly billing · iaas, paas
Railway
$5/moDeploy-from-repo PaaS with usage-based pricing
4 regions · usage billing · paas
Fly.io
$1.94/moRun apps close to users — microVMs on a global anycast network
35 regions · usage billing · paas, edge
Render
FreeHeroku-style PaaS with a real free tier
4 regions · monthly billing · paas
Contabo
$4.50/moAbsurd RAM-per-dollar VPSs, if you can tolerate the quirks
9 regions · monthly billing · iaas
Kamatera
$4/moEnterprise-grade cloud, custom-sized to the vCPU/GB/GB
18 regions · hourly billing · iaas
Hostinger VPS
$4.49/moBudget-hosting giant's VPS line — cheapest long-term commits
8 regions · monthly billing · iaas
Oracle Cloud (OCI)
FreeThe always-free ARM tier that every 'free VPS' list eventually lands on
48 regions · monthly billing · iaas, baremetal
ScalaHosting
$19.95/moNVMe cloud VPS + managed hosting with bundled SPanel control panel
13 regions · monthly billing · vps, managed
VPSServer
$4/moKamatera-family self-serve VPS — same global DCs, no managed overhead
18 regions · hourly billing · vps, iaas
Cloudways
$14/moManaged cloud layer on top of DO/AWS/GCP/Vultr/Linode — ops handled, app stays yours
65 regions · monthly billing · managed, paas