Cheapest VPS plans under $5 a month
Every plan we track that lands under five dollars a month, sorted by price. Read the term column before you buy — some…
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Sort servers by what a gigabyte costs, not what the ad says.
Every plan below carries a source and a date. Filter by the things that actually decide a purchase — RAM ceiling, storage type, region, whether the price survives renewal — and the ranking rebuilds around your constraints instead of somebody's affiliate payout.
2026 price watch
- Apr & JunHetzner raised prices twice; the dedicated-vCPU CCX line took the largest increase.
- May 1netcup added roughly 18.5% to existing contracts and 24.3% to new ones, citing the memory shortage.
- 2026DigitalOcean moved its entry Droplet from $5 to $6.
- HoldingAkamai (Linode), RackNerd, InterServer and Contabo have not moved.
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The bar on each row is cost per gigabyte of RAM, scaled against the best value currently on screen — a full green bar is the cheapest RAM in your filter set. It re-scales every time you move a filter, so it always answers the question you are actually asking rather than a global average. Rows marked unverified spec have a price we could source and specs we could not; they are shown rather than hidden so you know the gap exists.
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How the numbers get here
Prices are list prices published by each provider or reported by a dated third-party pricing tracker. Every provider page lists the sources used and the day the figures were checked.
Where a price is documented but the specs are not, the plan still appears — flagged unverified spec — because a missing row is more misleading than a labelled gap. Filters that depend on a spec exclude those rows automatically.
Prices in euros are converted at 1 EUR = 1.155 USD for sorting only. Providers bill in their own currency, and VAT, setup fees and regional surcharges are not in the sticker price. The term column matters: several of the cheapest rows require twelve or twenty-four months paid upfront, and a few renew far higher than they start.