Budget VPS
Find the best-performing VPS under $5/month, sorted by overall benchmark score. These budget plans are great for side projects, learning, lightweight servers, and personal workloads.
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| Provider | Plan | Location | vCPU | RAM | Storage | Monthly Price | GB Single | GB Multi | Disk R/W | Network D/U | Overall Score | Value Score | Verdict |
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| BERO HOST | Linux Root Server BDAY M
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EstimatedEstimated price | Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany | 2 | 8 GB | 80 GB NVME | $4.85/mo | 2,843 | 5,117 | 6,630 MB/s | 4,870 / 3,630 Mbps | 100 | 100 | Exceptional CPU, disk, and network result for a low monthly price in Frankfurt. |
| DigitalFyre | SMALL S1
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PartialPromo price | Singapore, North West, Singapore | 4 | 2 GB | 30 GB NVME | $3.50/mo | 3,415 | 8,913 | 2,340 MB/s | 9,210 / 9,150 Mbps | 98 | 100 | Outstanding Singapore VPS with extreme CPU, disk, and local 10 Gbps network performance at a budget price. |
| ExtraVM | KVM NVMe VPS
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Verified | Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands | 2 | 4 GB | 60 GB NVME | $4.80/mo | 2,530 | 4,471 | 2,525.9 MB/s | 5,599.75 / 2,489.91 Mbps | 97 | 100 | Amsterdam Ryzen 9950X VPS with outstanding single-core performance, fast NVMe I/O, and excellent European network throughput at $4.80/month. |
| Hostbrr | 7950XD-Valentine
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PartialPromo price | Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany | 2 | 6 GB | 80 GB NVME | $4.95/mo | 2,155 | 3,580 | 1,500 MB/s | 8,655.09 / 8,913.01 Mbps | 77 | 77 | Germany promotional VPS with excellent measured network throughput and strong Geekbench scores, but CPU identity needs context. |
| Little Creek Hosting | KVM-6G Special For Intel
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Verified | Durham, North Carolina, United States | 6 | 6 GB | 180 GB NVME | $4.50/mo | 1,121 | 4,266 | 3,490 MB/s | 893.86 / 932.54 Mbps | 74 | 80 | Strong Durham NC VPS with 6 vCPU, generous NVMe storage and top-tier disk I/O for $4.50/month. |
| Hetzner | CX22
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EstimatedEstimated price | Nuremberg, Bavaria, Germany | 2 | 4 GB | 40 GB NVME | $3.60/mo | 737 | 1,308 | 1,610 MB/s | 7,419.37 / 6,183.03 Mbps | 64 | 83 | Affordable European VPS with strong network capacity, generous bandwidth, and stable disk performance for the price. |
| EvosHosting | Black Friday 3
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EstimatedPromo price | Amsterdam, North Holland, Netherlands | 4 | 8 GB | 100 GB NVME | $3.82/mo | 1,821 | 4,612 | 958.8 MB/s | 40.93 / 776.25 Mbps | 56 | 70 | Amsterdam Ryzen 9 VPS with excellent multi-core GB6, 8GB RAM, and NVMe storage at a competitive Black Friday price, despite unusually low download throughput during testing. |
| HostDZire | IN Cloud VPS 2
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Verified | Mumbai, Maharashtra, India | 2 | 4 GB | 60 GB NVME | $4.15/mo | 1,369 | 4,381 | 825.3 MB/s | 940.55 / 938.11 Mbps | 56 | 64 | Mumbai Ryzen 9 VPS with strong multi-core GB6, symmetric network throughput, and 10 Gbps port for $4.15/month. |
| Serverbear | VPS 6G
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EstimatedEstimated price | Singapore, Central Singapore, Singapore | 4 | 6 GB | 100 GB NVME | $4.31/mo | 758 | 2,323 | 497.89 MB/s | 5,409.8 / 4,979.65 Mbps | 56 | 63 | Singapore VPS with massive 30TB bandwidth, generous 6GB RAM, and solid multi-core EPYC concurrency, held back by weak single-core speed. |
| Aspire Hosting | Cloud Standard VPS
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VerifiedPromo price | Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany | 3 | 4 GB | 70 GB NVME | $3.50/mo | 672 | 1,612 | 5,880 MB/s | 785.17 / 891.35 Mbps | 55 | 72 | Low-cost Germany VPS with excellent fio throughput, modest CPU score, and 1 Gbps-class network performance. |
| Servitro | Virtual-1
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PartialPromo price | Bad Soden am Taunus, Hesse, Germany | 1 | 4 GB | 25 GB SSD | $3.20/mo | 2,828 | 2,820 | 200.62 MB/s | 8,260 / 1,120 Mbps | 52 | 73 | Very strong single-core VPS result with excellent benchmark network numbers, though fio sustained disk numbers are lower than bench.sh burst results. |
| Index-Hosting | Epyc Starter
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EstimatedEstimated price | Frankfurt am Main, Hesse, Germany | 2 | 10 GB | 80 GB NVME | $4.31/mo | 1,231 | 2,069 | 2,028 MB/s | 888.56 / 987.01 Mbps | 51 | 57 | Frankfurt EPYC VPS with generous 10GB DDR5 RAM, 30TB traffic, and good European network throughput for under €4/month. |
| RackNerd | 2 GB KVM VPS - New Year 2024
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Partial | Los Angeles, California, United States | 1 | 2 GB | 35 GB SSD | $1.44/mo | N/A | N/A | 1,341 MB/s | 799.63 / 828.31 Mbps | 51 | 100 | Ultra-budget Los Angeles VPS at $1.44/month with respectable fio disk throughput for an older Xeon platform. |
| Cloudnium | Seattle KVM VPS
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PartialPromo price | Seattle, Washington, United States | 2 | 2 GB | 20 GB NVME | $1.25/mo | 1,232 | 2,216 | 579.71 MB/s | 957 / 645 Mbps | 45 | 100 | Very low-cost Seattle VPS with solid CPU and disk for the price, but uneven global upload performance. |
| WaleHost | Wale-B-2
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PartialEstimated price | Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands | 4 | 6 GB | 70 GB NVME | $4.35/mo | 879 | 2,590 | 1,310 MB/s | 499.2 / 163.4 Mbps | 40 | 45 | Low-cost WaleHost plan with useful RAM and NVMe capacity, but source location metadata and network throughput need rechecking. |
| BaboonHosting | LET Deal 3
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EstimatedPromo price | Lelystad, Flevoland, Netherlands | 4 | 12 GB | 150 GB SSD | $3.62/mo | 917 | 1,624 | 244.46 MB/s | 4,796.64 / 1,021.87 Mbps | 39 | 50 | Large RAM yearly deal with good download throughput, but fio throughput and latency are uneven compared with newer NVMe offers. |
| DeluxHost | SPECIAL OFFERS
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EstimatedPromo price | New York City, New York, United States | 2 | 2 GB | 30 GB NVME | $1.95/mo | 964 | 1,723 | 616 MB/s | 1,690.61 / 604.33 Mbps | 39 | 77 | Ultra-budget New York VPS at under €2/month with strong download throughput and decent NVMe disk for the price tier. |
| RackNerd | 1 GB KVM VPS Special Deal
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VerifiedPromo price | Toronto, Ontario, Canada | 1 | 1 GB | 20 GB SSD | $0.91/mo | 677 | 592 | 628.7 MB/s | 849.34 / 862.48 Mbps | 36 | 100 | Ultra-budget Toronto VPS at $0.91/month with decent disk I/O and symmetric network for the price tier. |
| OVH Cloud | VPS 1
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Verified | Singapore, Central Singapore, Singapore | 4 | 8 GB | 75 GB NVME | $4.90/mo | 809 | 2,522 | 814 MB/s | 387.75 / 386.67 Mbps | 34 | 34 | Singapore VPS from a major cloud provider with 4 vCPU, 8GB RAM, and symmetric network throughput for $4.90/month. |
| ServerPoint | LET-RAM1
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Partial | Singapore, Central Singapore, Singapore | 4 | 8 GB | 100 GB SSD | $5.00/mo | 797 | 2,501 | 457.93 MB/s | 1,472.1 / 693.68 Mbps | 34 | 34 | Singapore VPS with useful RAM and bandwidth, but source virtualization metadata is inconsistent and IPv6 was offline. |
| OrangeVPS | VPS NA BASIC-KCMO-1
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Verified | Kansas City, Missouri, United States | 2 | 2 GB | 30 GB NVME | $4.00/mo | 662 | 674 | 1,399.5 MB/s | 928 / 902.17 Mbps | 32 | 38 | Kansas City VPS with excellent NVMe disk I/O and symmetric network throughput for $4/month, held back by modest Geekbench scores from an older Xeon platform. |
| LumaDock | Starter VPS
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Verified | London, England, United Kingdom | 1 | 2 GB | 30 GB NVME | $3.49/mo | 1,114 | 1,884 | 808 MB/s | 290.83 / 312.91 Mbps | 30 | 39 | London EPYC VPS at $3.49/month with decent single-core GB6, unmetered bandwidth, and solid European network, held back by modest download throughput. |
| Interserver | Linux VPS 2 Slices
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Verified | Los Angeles, California, United States | 1 | 4 GB | 80 GB SSD | $4.80/mo | 789 | 785 | 930.27 MB/s | 889.74 / 202.43 Mbps | 22 | 22 | Los Angeles VPS at $4.80/month with 10Gbps port, good fio disk, and global iperf3 throughput despite modest CPU benchmark. |
| Tencent Cloud | Lighthouse
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Partial | Jakarta, Jakarta, Indonesia | 2 | 2 GB | 40 GB SSD | $4.20/mo | 1,183 | 2,120 | 261.74 MB/s | 199 / 20.5 Mbps | 22 | 25 | Decent regional Lighthouse instance for Indonesia, but limited bandwidth and low upload speed reduce overall value. |
| HostSlick | 2024 EARLY BF SALE I
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EstimatedPromo price | Kerkrade, Limburg, Netherlands | 1 | 1.5 GB | 40 GB SSD | $1.06/mo | 509 | 503 | 325.7 MB/s | 937.06 / 40.05 Mbps | 21 | 57 | Ultra-budget Netherlands VPS at under €1/month with acceptable European download speeds but very limited upload throughput. |
| ColoCrossing | 4GB RAM VPS
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VerifiedPromo price | Los Angeles, California, United States | 3 | 4 GB | 100 GB SSD | $3.49/mo | 277 | 527 | 651.33 MB/s | 235.74 / 491.89 Mbps | 17 | 22 | Cheap Los Angeles VPS with large bandwidth allocation, but the migrated CPU, disk, and network figures are weak for ranking purposes. |
Exceptional CPU, disk, and network result for a low monthly price in Frankfurt.
Read reviewOutstanding Singapore VPS with extreme CPU, disk, and local 10 Gbps network performance at a budget price.
Read reviewAmsterdam Ryzen 9950X VPS with outstanding single-core performance, fast NVMe I/O, and excellent European network throughput at $4.80/month.
Read reviewGermany promotional VPS with excellent measured network throughput and strong Geekbench scores, but CPU identity needs context.
Read reviewStrong Durham NC VPS with 6 vCPU, generous NVMe storage and top-tier disk I/O for $4.50/month.
Read reviewAffordable European VPS with strong network capacity, generous bandwidth, and stable disk performance for the price.
Read reviewAmsterdam Ryzen 9 VPS with excellent multi-core GB6, 8GB RAM, and NVMe storage at a competitive Black Friday price, despite unusually low download throughput during testing.
Read reviewMumbai Ryzen 9 VPS with strong multi-core GB6, symmetric network throughput, and 10 Gbps port for $4.15/month.
Read reviewSingapore VPS with massive 30TB bandwidth, generous 6GB RAM, and solid multi-core EPYC concurrency, held back by weak single-core speed.
Read reviewLow-cost Germany VPS with excellent fio throughput, modest CPU score, and 1 Gbps-class network performance.
Read reviewVery strong single-core VPS result with excellent benchmark network numbers, though fio sustained disk numbers are lower than bench.sh burst results.
Read reviewFrankfurt EPYC VPS with generous 10GB DDR5 RAM, 30TB traffic, and good European network throughput for under €4/month.
Read reviewUltra-budget Los Angeles VPS at $1.44/month with respectable fio disk throughput for an older Xeon platform.
Read reviewVery low-cost Seattle VPS with solid CPU and disk for the price, but uneven global upload performance.
Read reviewLow-cost WaleHost plan with useful RAM and NVMe capacity, but source location metadata and network throughput need rechecking.
Read reviewLarge RAM yearly deal with good download throughput, but fio throughput and latency are uneven compared with newer NVMe offers.
Read reviewUltra-budget New York VPS at under €2/month with strong download throughput and decent NVMe disk for the price tier.
Read reviewUltra-budget Toronto VPS at $0.91/month with decent disk I/O and symmetric network for the price tier.
Read reviewSingapore VPS from a major cloud provider with 4 vCPU, 8GB RAM, and symmetric network throughput for $4.90/month.
Read reviewSingapore VPS with useful RAM and bandwidth, but source virtualization metadata is inconsistent and IPv6 was offline.
Read reviewKansas City VPS with excellent NVMe disk I/O and symmetric network throughput for $4/month, held back by modest Geekbench scores from an older Xeon platform.
Read reviewLondon EPYC VPS at $3.49/month with decent single-core GB6, unmetered bandwidth, and solid European network, held back by modest download throughput.
Read reviewLos Angeles VPS at $4.80/month with 10Gbps port, good fio disk, and global iperf3 throughput despite modest CPU benchmark.
Read reviewDecent regional Lighthouse instance for Indonesia, but limited bandwidth and low upload speed reduce overall value.
Read reviewUltra-budget Netherlands VPS at under €1/month with acceptable European download speeds but very limited upload throughput.
Read reviewCheap Los Angeles VPS with large bandwidth allocation, but the migrated CPU, disk, and network figures are weak for ranking purposes.
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