Your requirement
Windows VPS hosting
Where the licence cost is stated rather than buried, and where it is not offered at all.
What a plan needs to be listed
UpCloud Premium fixed VPS records for which compute, included storage, public IPv4, Windows template support, per-core Windows Server Standard licence price, and FX inputs are all known.
A plan reaches the table below only if all of this is true of it:
- It is a VPS plan.
- It is an UpCloud Premium fixed plan, the only range we track with a published per-core Windows Server licence price beside the compute price.
- The vendor publishes a monthly price for it.
- Its vCPU count is published and above zero, because the Windows licence is charged per core.
- Its included storage is published and above zero.
- A public IPv4 address is included in the plan rather than billed separately.
- The licence converts at the single euro-to-dollar rate recorded with this snapshot, 1.1377, so the total can be recomputed exactly.
Plans that qualify
| Provider | Plan | vCPU | RAM | Disk | Transfer | Price with licence |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UpCloud | 1 CPU / 1 GB Premium Checked 16 Oct 2026 1 vCPU · 1 GB · 25 GB transfer unknown | 1 | 1 GB | 25 GB | unknown | $19.34 |
| UpCloud | 1 CPU / 2 GB Premium Checked 16 Oct 2026 1 vCPU · 2 GB · 25 GB transfer unknown | 1 | 2 GB | 25 GB | unknown | $27.30 |
| UpCloud | 2 CPU / 2 GB Premium Checked 16 Oct 2026 2 vCPU · 2 GB · 50 GB transfer unknown | 2 | 2 GB | 50 GB | unknown | $45.50 |
| UpCloud | 2 CPU / 4 GB Premium Checked 16 Oct 2026 2 vCPU · 4 GB · 50 GB transfer unknown | 2 | 4 GB | 50 GB | unknown | $56.88 |
| UpCloud | 2 CPU / 8 GB Premium Checked 16 Oct 2026 2 vCPU · 8 GB · 100 GB transfer unknown | 2 | 8 GB | 100 GB | unknown | $70.53 |
| UpCloud | 2 CPU / 16 GB Premium Checked 16 Oct 2026 2 vCPU · 16 GB · 150 GB transfer unknown | 2 | 16 GB | 150 GB | unknown | $109.21 |
| UpCloud | 4 CPU / 8 GB Premium Checked 16 Oct 2026 4 vCPU · 8 GB · 100 GB transfer unknown | 4 | 8 GB | 100 GB | unknown | $113.77 |
| UpCloud | 4 CPU / 16 GB Premium Checked 16 Oct 2026 4 vCPU · 16 GB · 150 GB transfer unknown | 4 | 16 GB | 150 GB | unknown | $159.28 |
| UpCloud | 8 CPU / 16 GB Premium Checked 16 Oct 2026 8 vCPU · 16 GB · 200 GB transfer unknown | 8 | 16 GB | 200 GB | unknown | $277.60 |
Plans that just miss
These came close enough to be worth knowing about. Some meet the broad requirement above but miss a narrower one; the last column says which. Listing them shows that a missing plan was checked, not forgotten.
| Provider | Plan | What it misses | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| DigitalOcean | s-2vcpu-4gb | No Windows image support, No Windows licence price | $24.00 |
| Hetzner | CX23 | No Windows image support, No Windows licence price | $6.49 |
| Microsoft Azure | B2s | No Windows licence price | $30.37 |
| Vultr | vc2-2c-4gb | No Windows licence price | $20.00 |
What actually decides this
A Windows comparison cannot reuse the Linux number and add a vague warning. The licence is part of the executable price. This dataset supports one defensible join: UpCloud Premium fixed plans include storage and public IPv4, UpCloud publishes a per-core Windows Server Standard charge, and the bundle carries a dated exchange-rate receipt. The current table can therefore calculate compute plus licence without copying a price into prose.
The result is narrow, not comprehensive. Read the current compute figure from the qualifying row, then add the published Standard licence charge for each vCPU using the dated exchange rate. Backups, taxes, Remote Desktop Services rights, SQL Server, and other commercial software remain outside that total. A low-core, high-memory shape can be rational for Windows because RAM does not increase this provider's per-core licence charge.
The plans that just miss show why the rest stay out. DigitalOcean does not support Windows Droplets. Hetzner does not sell a Windows Cloud image in its current terms. Vultr supports Windows but its current size-based surcharge is missing. The Azure B-series rows are Linux consumption meters, not Windows prices. Treating any of those base prices as a Windows total would make an unknown look cheap.
First decide the exact operating system edition, application licensing, Remote Desktop use, and whether existing licences have valid cloud rights. Microsoft applies eligibility and minimum-core rules to Azure Hybrid Benefit, so a small VM does not imply a proportionally small bring-your-own-licence allocation. If provider licensing applies, add it before ranking. If bring-your-own rights apply, record the programme and term. Until more vendor schedules are structured, the honest output is one priced vendor plus explicit exclusions, not a market-wide cheapest claim.
How to check this yourself
Every price here is read from the provider's own page and carries the date we read it, most recently 16 Oct 2026. The requirements above list every check we applied, so you can disagree with a threshold rather than guess at it. How we calculate the bill, and download the data if you would rather run your own.
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