How does VPS price grow with RAM?
A 1 GB VPS costs from $0.91 to $17.99 a month, the widest spread of any size: the dearest is 19.8 times the cheapest, which is billed $10.88 a year up front. At 32 GB the range is $25.68 (ex VAT) to $192. Read 31 Oct 2026 from 49 providers’ own price pages and APIs.
How to read it Each row is one memory size, plans with exactly that much; its bar runs from the cheapest plan to the dearest. Further left is cheaper. Green is the cheapest, red the dearest, the black tick the median.
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Cheapest, median and dearest plan at each size
| RAM | Cheapest | Median | Dearest | Plans |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 GB | cheapest at this size$0.91DediRock Yearly Promo Saver · 12-month commitment, billed $10.88 a year · read 31 Oct 2026 · dedirock.com · price page | $5.00 | dearest at this size$17.99RackNerd KVM 1GB · read 31 Oct 2026 · racknerd.com · price page | 3830 providers |
| 2 GB | cheapest at this size$1.49DediRock Yearly Promo Economy · 12-month commitment, billed $17.88 a year · read 31 Oct 2026 · dedirock.com · price page | $8.00 | dearest at this size$25.00Kamatera Standard · read 31 Oct 2026 · kamatera.com · price page | 5340 providers |
| 4 GB | cheapest at this size$4.46AlphaVPS Cheap C4G · ex VAT · billed €3.99 · read 29 Oct 2026 · alphavps.com · by hand · ECB rate 30 Oct 2026 | $14.00 | dearest at this size$42.00AWS Lightsail Compute optimized 4GB · read 31 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com · API | 5946 providers |
| 8 GB | cheapest at this size$6.60Contabo Cloud VPS 4 · ex VAT · read 31 Oct 2026 · contabo.com · by hand | $24.00 | dearest at this size$84.00AWS Lightsail Compute optimized 8GB · read 31 Oct 2026 · aws.amazon.com · API | 5140 providers |
| 16 GB | cheapest at this size$13.40AlphaVPS Cheap C16G · ex VAT · billed €11.99 · read 29 Oct 2026 · alphavps.com · by hand · ECB rate 30 Oct 2026 | $39.05 | dearest at this size$100.00LunaNode s.16 · read 31 Oct 2026 · dynamic.lunanode.com · price page | 3628 providers |
| 32 GB | cheapest at this size$25.68AlphaVPS Cheap C32G · ex VAT · billed €22.99 · read 29 Oct 2026 · alphavps.com · by hand · ECB rate 30 Oct 2026 | $76.99 | dearest at this size$192.00Akamai Cloud (Linode) Linode 32GB · read 31 Oct 2026 · api.linode.com · API | 1815 providers |
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Unmanaged plans with exactly that RAM, orderable today with an IPv4 address, on a term of a year or less · per month incl. a separately billed IPv4 address · read 31 Oct 2026
Drawn in context on the VPS cost page.