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One instance, 730 hours/month. Taxes and team time excluded.

What each preset includes

Every preset includes the CPU, memory, run time, instance count, transfer, region and networking shown on its card. Persistent storage, a managed database, a load balancer, extra seats and team time are excluded unless that card names them; a missing required price keeps the total out of the ranking.

Lowest estimated monthly infrastructure bill

Tencent Cloud Lighthouse starter linux 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 60 GB

$6.00/mo

  • ComputeLighthouse starter linux 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 60 GB x 1$6.00
  • EgressInside the 1,536 GB included allowance$0.00
  • Public IPv4included in the plan price$0.00
  • Renewalstandard monthly price, not a first-term offersame

One always-on instance at 2 vCPU and 4 GB, 100 GB egress. No disk, no database.

Checked 16 Oct 2026 on Tencent Cloud's own page

Bill, sources and sharing

1,011 plans · 53 providers · checked to · 98 without a fixed monthly price

Price from Tencent Cloud's own page: checked 16 Oct 2026. Excludes tax and your team's time.

This is the lowest total we can calculate from published prices for the selected workload. Confirm that the plan supports your software and region before buying.

Next: Hetzner $7.09, Hostinger $8.79, RareCloud $10.67.

Lowest estimated total by hosting type

A VPS and a serverless container at the same price require different work. Compare the type you want to operate before choosing a provider.

Advertised price against estimated total

The advertised price is the estimated total for this workload: $6.00. We found no required charge to add at these inputs.

The bill, line by line show the workinghide
ComputeLighthouse starter linux 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 60 GB x 1
$6.00
EgressInside the 1,536 GB included allowance
$0.00
Total
$6.00
Minimum term
1 months
Cost for the year
not stated
Paid upfront
not stated
Renewal
same price (standard monthly price, not a first-term offer)
Refunds
not stated
In stock
yes when checked on 26 Jul 2026
Transfer allowance
1,536 GB
After the allowance
Outbound usage over the package is billed hourly; exact regional rates are retained in the per-region rate table ($0.077-$0.13/GB).

Compare like with like

13 providers we can price, grouped by the kind of hosting you manage

How to compare these estimates

First choose the kind of service you want to run, then compare providers within that group. Advertised price is the provider's starting figure. Estimated total adds the required storage, transfer, IPv4 and platform charges we can verify for this workload. If a required price is unknown, the plan stays visible but does not enter the ranking.

VPS: costs and responsibilities

VPS

A machine you patch. The kernel, the updates, the firewall and the restore are yours.

Costs to check beyond the advertised price A public IPv4 address, and what happens when the included transfer runs out.

We found 7 more plans in this hosting type, but a required price is missing. Each appears in “Plans missing a total” below with the reason.

Lowest estimated total in this hosting type

Tencent Cloud Lighthouse starter linux 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 60 GB

$6.00/mo

The advertised price is the estimated total for this workload: $6.00. We found no required charge to add at these inputs.

This is the lowest estimated monthly total on the page.

VPS plans, lowest estimated total first
CompareProvider Plan Advertised price Estimated total Key terms Provider offer
Tencent Cloud Lighthouse starter linux 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 60 GB VPS +41 more plans on their page $6.00 $6.00
  • Compute $6.00
  • Egress $0.00
Bill parts
  • Compute $6.00
  • Egress $0.00
List price 1-month commitmentBilled past the allowance View offer price as of 16 Oct 2026
Hetzner CX23 VPS +10 more plans on their page $6.49 $7.09
  • Compute $6.49
  • Egress $0.00
  • Public IPv4 $0.60
Bill parts
  • Compute $6.49
  • Egress $0.00
  • Public IPv4 $0.60
List price View offer price as of 25 Jul 2026
Hostinger KVM 2 VPS +1 more plan on their page $8.79 $8.79
  • Compute $8.79
  • Egress $0.00
Bill parts
  • Compute $8.79
  • Egress $0.00
Intro price renews at $14.99 24-month commitmentSlowed past the allowance View offer price as of 21 Oct 2026
RareCloud Plus VPS VPS +2 more plans on their page $10.67 $10.67
  • Compute $10.67
  • Egress $0.00
Bill parts
  • Compute $10.67
  • Egress $0.00
List price View offer price as of 23 Oct 2026
OneProvider OneCloud General 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 50 GB VPS +6 more plans on their page $16.00 $16.00
  • Compute $16.00
  • Egress $0.00
Bill parts
  • Compute $16.00
  • Egress $0.00
List price Billed past the allowance View offer price as of 16 Oct 2026
Akamai Connected Cloud Linode 4GB VPS +50 more plans on their page $24.00 $24.00
  • Compute $24.00
  • Egress $0.00
Bill parts
  • Compute $24.00
  • Egress $0.00
List price View offer price as of 25 Jul 2026
Amazon Web Services Medium-4GB Linux with public IPv4 VPS +14 more plans on their page $24.00 $24.00
  • Compute $24.00
  • Egress $0.00
Bill parts
  • Compute $24.00
  • Egress $0.00
List price View offer price as of 16 Oct 2026
DigitalOcean s-2vcpu-4gb VPS +51 more plans on their page $24.00 $24.00
  • Compute $24.00
  • Egress $0.00
Bill parts
  • Compute $24.00
  • Egress $0.00
List price View offer price as of 16 Oct 2026
Microsoft Azure B2s VPS +6 more plans on their page $30.37 $34.02
  • Compute $30.37
  • Egress $0.00
  • Public IPv4 $3.65
Bill parts
  • Compute $30.37
  • Egress $0.00
  • Public IPv4 $3.65
Our calculation View offer price as of 16 Oct 2026
Kamatera Pro VPS $39.00 $39.00
  • Compute $39.00
  • Egress $0.00
Bill parts
  • Compute $39.00
  • Egress $0.00
List price View offer price as of 15 Oct 2026
Google Cloud e2-medium VPS +6 more plans on their page $24.46 $39.17
  • Compute $24.46
  • Egress overage $11.06
  • Public IPv4 $3.65
Bill parts
  • Compute $24.46
  • Egress overage $11.06
  • Public IPv4 $3.65
Our calculation View offer price as of 16 Oct 2026
PaaS: costs and responsibilities

PaaS

The platform builds it, runs it and restarts it. You give up the machine, and with it the ability to tune what the machine does.

Costs to check beyond the advertised price Egress charged per GB, and a platform fee that is billed whether or not anything runs.

We found 3 more plans in this hosting type, but a required price is missing. Each appears in “Plans missing a total” below with the reason.

Lowest estimated total in this hosting type

Koyeb eco-large

$21.43/mo

The advertised price is the estimated total for this workload: $21.43. We found no required charge to add at these inputs.

Choosing this hosting type over VPS costs $15.43 more a month at this workload.

PaaS plans, lowest estimated total first
CompareProvider Plan Advertised price Estimated total Key terms Provider offer
Koyeb eco-large PaaS +26 more plans on their page $21.43 $21.43
  • Compute $21.43
  • Egress $0.00
Bill parts
  • Compute $21.43
  • Egress $0.00
List price Billed past the allowance View offer price as of 25 Jul 2026
Fly.io shared-cpu-2x / 4GB PaaS +31 more plans on their page $25.40 $27.40
  • Compute $25.40
  • Egress overage $2.00
Bill parts
  • Compute $25.40
  • Egress overage $2.00
List price View offer price as of 9 Oct 2026

We cannot total Kubernetes or serverless container plans for this workload, because a price they need is not published. They are listed below with the missing price.

Plans missing a total (12)

Each plan is real, but at least one required price or capability is not published. We show the reason and link to the provider instead of guessing a total.

Provider Plan Hosting type What is missing Provider offer
Amazon Web Services Medium-4GB Linux IPv6-only VPS we have no IPv4 price for this plan View pricing
Civo Medium Kubernetes Civo publishes no transfer limit, so we cannot say what a heavy month costs View pricing
Heroku Compute 2CPU-4GB PaaS the usable transfer limit or allowance is not published View pricing
Leapcell Hobby Serverless container the service stops at 2 GB of transfer, below this workload; free-tier limits we cannot price for this workload yet View pricing
OneProvider OneCloud Storage 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 500 GB VPS the usable transfer limit or allowance is not published View pricing
Oracle Cloud VM.Standard.A1.Flex Always Free allocation VPS free-tier limits we cannot price for this workload yet View pricing
OVHcloud d2-4 1-month Savings Plan VPS the usable transfer limit or allowance is not published View pricing
Railway Hobby PaaS this plan bills measured usage against its monthly minimum, so the total depends on usage we do not have; we have not recorded an included transfer allowance for this plan View pricing
Render Pro PaaS the transfer allowance depends on the workspace plan, which this bill does not choose View pricing
Scaleway DEV1-M VPS the usable transfer limit or allowance is not published View pricing
Tencent Cloud Lighthouse razor linux 2 vCPU / 4 GB / 60 GB VPS the usable transfer limit or allowance is not published View pricing
UpCloud 2 CPU / 4 GB Cloud Native VPS the usable transfer limit or allowance is not published View pricing

The other questions this data answers

Cost is one axis. These use the same prices and the same bills to answer the decisions that sit next to it.

Or start from a requirement

Most people arrive knowing one hard requirement rather than a full spec. Each of these lists the plans that meet it and the plans that just miss, with the one thing each of them misses.

Three things we will not do

It will not invent a number. 98 of 1,011 plans carry no public price for a configuration like this, and rather than estimating them we link the provider's own page and say exactly what is missing. A visible unknown beats a plausible number that goes stale quietly.

It will not charge you for your own time in the headline. Eleven cloud estimators were reviewed and not one prices the buyer's labour by default. Team cost is a separate, optional calculation with a rate you enter yourself.

It will not call anything the best host. We know what a provider bills. It does not yet know whether a plan supports your runtime, your background workers, your persistent-disk behaviour or your private networking, so the top row is the lowest complete bill and nothing more. How we calculate the bill.

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