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Hostwinds pricing and plans
Month-to-month unmanaged SSD VPS from three US and EU locations
Hostwinds sells unmanaged Linux VPS plans at a flat monthly price, with no prepaid term on the plans listed here. It runs from three locations: Seattle, Dallas and Amsterdam. Its pricing page states the RAM, disk and monthly transfer for each plan but not the CPU model.
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Plans and derived unit cost
The final two columns are computed from the monthly price, which is how you spot the tier where a provider stops being good value.
- checked 2026-10-14 (page) · source
Hostwinds
Unmanaged SSD Cloud 1
$4.99
per month
- Specification
- 1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM
- Storage
- 30 GB SSD
- Included transfer
- 1 TB
- Cost per vCPU
- $4.99
- Cost per GB RAM
- $4.99
- Annual
- $60
AffiliatePricing page - checked 2026-10-14 (page) · source
Hostwinds
Unmanaged SSD Cloud 2
$9.99
per month
- Specification
- 1 vCPU / 2 GB RAM
- Storage
- 50 GB SSD
- Included transfer
- 2 TB
- Cost per vCPU
- $9.99
- Cost per GB RAM
- $5.00
- Annual
- $120
AffiliatePricing page - checked 2026-10-14 (page) · source
Hostwinds
Unmanaged SSD Cloud 3
$18.99
per month
- Specification
- 2 vCPU / 4 GB RAM
- Storage
- 75 GB SSD
- Included transfer
- 2 TB
- Cost per vCPU
- $9.49
- Cost per GB RAM
- $4.75
- Annual
- $228
AffiliatePricing page - checked 2026-10-14 (page) · source
Hostwinds
Unmanaged SSD Cloud 4
$28.99
per month
- Specification
- 2 vCPU / 6 GB RAM
- Storage
- 100 GB SSD
- Included transfer
- 2 TB
- Cost per vCPU
- $14
- Cost per GB RAM
- $4.83
- Annual
- $348
AffiliatePricing page - checked 2026-10-14 (page) · source
Hostwinds
Unmanaged SSD Cloud 5
$38.99
per month
- Specification
- 4 vCPU / 8 GB RAM
- Storage
- 150 GB SSD
- Included transfer
- 3 TB
- Cost per vCPU
- $9.75
- Cost per GB RAM
- $4.87
- Annual
- $468
AffiliatePricing page
| Provider & plan | Monthly | vCPU | RAM | Storage | Transfer | / vCPU | / GB RAM | Link |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 1checked 2026-10-14 (page) · sourceAffiliate | $4.99 | 1 | 1 GB | 30 GB | 1 TB | $4.99 | $4.99 | Open |
Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 2checked 2026-10-14 (page) · sourceAffiliate | $9.99 | 1 | 2 GB | 50 GB | 2 TB | $9.99 | $5.00 | Open |
Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 3checked 2026-10-14 (page) · sourceAffiliate | $18.99 | 2 | 4 GB | 75 GB | 2 TB | $9.49 | $4.75 | Open |
Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 4checked 2026-10-14 (page) · sourceAffiliate | $28.99 | 2 | 6 GB | 100 GB | 2 TB | $14 | $4.83 | Open |
Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 5checked 2026-10-14 (page) · sourceAffiliate | $38.99 | 4 | 8 GB | 150 GB | 3 TB | $9.75 | $4.87 | Open |
All figures are the providers' own published list prices in USD, on-demand monthly. The index was last refreshed 2026-10-14, and every row shows the date its own price was read. Nothing here is live or negotiated pricing. Where a provider bills a public IPv4 address on top, it is added to the monthly price, the ranking and every cost per vCPU or per GB, and the row shows the parts: the server, any disk priced apart, and the IPv4 charge. Some prices exclude VAT or need a commitment; the plan notes say which. Check the provider's pricing page before you commit.
Where Hostwinds sells these plans
Dallas, Seattle, Amsterdam. Same price in every location.
- Cheapest VPS in the US
- Cheapest VPS in the Netherlands
- Cheapest VPS in Dallas
- Cheapest VPS in Seattle
- Cheapest VPS in Amsterdam
- Cheapest VPS in Europe
- Cheapest VPS in North America
Locations checked 2026-10-11 · source
Hostwinds price history
Daily readings since 2026-10-11. A line appears once a plan has been read on at least two days with different prices; until then the plan shows its current price only.
- Unmanaged SSD Cloud 1$4.99 · no change recorded
- Unmanaged SSD Cloud 2$9.99 · no change recorded
- Unmanaged SSD Cloud 3$18.99 · no change recorded
- Unmanaged SSD Cloud 4$28.99 · no change recorded
- Unmanaged SSD Cloud 5$38.99 · no change recorded
Where Hostwinds wins
- Plain month-to-month prices with no prepay needed for the listed rate
- Transfer allowance stated per plan (1 to 3 TB on the plans listed here)
- US West, US Central and EU locations
Where it does not
- Only three locations
- The pricing page does not state the CPU model
- Unmanaged: the operating system and backups are yours to run
Who should actually pick this
Buyers who want a simple monthly VPS in the US or Amsterdam without a long contract.
Support: See Hostwinds for its support terms.
Hostwinds — frequently asked
Every answer is derived from the dataset above, so it stays honest when we re-verify prices.
- What does the cheapest Hostwinds plan cost?
- $4.99 per month for the Unmanaged SSD Cloud 1 plan (1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM / 30 GB storage), the cheapest one you can order today with a public IPv4 address. From Hostwinds's own pricing, read 2026-10-14.
- Is Hostwinds managed or unmanaged?
- Hostwinds is an unmanaged cloud VPS: you get root access to your instance and are responsible for the operating system and everything above it.
- How many datacenter regions does Hostwinds publicly list?
- 3. Notable regions: Seattle, Dallas, Amsterdam.
- What is Hostwinds's cost per vCPU at the entry tier?
- $4.99 per vCPU per month on the Unmanaged SSD Cloud 1 plan ($4.99 / 1 vCPU).
- Does Hostwinds have a free tier?
- No free tier.
- What is Hostwinds genuinely bad at?
- Only three locations Full weakness list appears in the "Where it does not" section above.
- How current is this pricing?
- The index was last refreshed 2026-10-14. Every price carries the date it was read from Hostwinds's own pricing page or price API, and an automatically read price that cannot be re-read for seven days is hidden rather than shown stale.