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What will your server cost each month?

Put in the vCPU, RAM, storage and traffic you need and see an estimate for Hetzner, DigitalOcean (Droplets and App Platform), Cloudways, Railway and Vultr, cheapest first. Hetzner is our honest baseline. We use public list prices only, we don't ask you to sign up and we don't track you. No affiliate links are live yet (see Disclosure).

What you need

Quick start

vCPU RAM (GB) Storage (GB) Traffic (TB/mo)

Traffic means outbound (egress) data. Inbound is free almost everywhere. 1 TB is counted as 1,000 GB.

Managed database None Small 1 GB · 1 vCPU · 10 GB Medium 2 GB · 1 vCPU · 30 GB Large 4 GB · 2 vCPU · 60 GB

Hetzner location EU 20 TB incl. US 1–5 TB incl.

Railway: average usage Railway bills the CPU and RAM you actually use. 100% compares it fairly with fixed-size servers; a mostly idle app might average 20–40%.

Currency USD $ EUR €

USD per 1 EUR Default: ECB reference rate for 28 Oct 2026. Hetzner lists in EUR; the others list in USD. We convert with this rate.

Estimated monthly cost

Estimates only. Estimated from public pricing as of ; verify on provider. Prices exclude VAT and sales tax, promos, credits and enterprise discounts. Your real bill depends on the region, plan, actual usage and the provider's current prices.

How the estimate works

VPS providers (Hetzner, DigitalOcean Droplets, Vultr): we try every public plan with enough vCPU and RAM, add block storage if its disk is too small and add traffic overage beyond the included allowance, then keep the cheapest total.
Hetzner is the baseline: EU (Germany/Finland) Regular Performance and dedicated General Purpose plans, or US Regular Performance plans. Prices are in EUR, converted at your FX rate. Hetzner has no managed database, so a database is priced as a second small server you run yourself.
DigitalOcean App Platform is a ballpark: the smallest shared container that fits, or several 2 vCPU / 4 GB containers for bigger apps. Containers have no persistent disk, so storage isn't priced there.
Cloudways is managed hosting on DigitalOcean (Standard plans). The database runs on the same server, so we size the plan for app + database. Storage only grows with the plan.
Railway bills usage: $20 per vCPU-month, $10 per GB-month of RAM, $0.15 per GB of volume and $0.05 per GB of egress. The Hobby ($5) or Pro ($20) fee counts as included usage, so the bill is whichever is higher. More than 5 GB of volume needs Pro.
Managed databases are single-node entry tiers (DigitalOcean and Vultr). High availability usually doubles them.
Every number, its source URL and the date we read it are in PRICING-SOURCES.md.

Disclosure

No affiliate links are live on this page yet. Every provider link goes to the official pricing page with no tracking. We may later add affiliate links for DigitalOcean, Cloudways, Railway or Vultr. If we do, each one will be marked Affiliate link / Anzeige right next to it, and this section will name them.

Affiliate disclosure / Werbung (when active): If you buy through a link marked Affiliate link / Anzeige, LatentLark may earn a commission at no extra cost to you (US FTC 16 CFR Part 255; DE UWG § 5a). Hetzner is our non-affiliate baseline. The ranking always comes only from the calculation above, never from commissions.