Every price shown with its source · independent measurement probes Every price sourced · independent probes Prices last checked: 24 Sep 2026
Start analysis
Home Cloud hosting

Spiky traffic? We'll rank for you.

Cloud servers and cubes, pay-as-you-go included.

Where's your audience?
Management?
How much RAM?
Need a GPU?
2 plans · ranked by 3-year real cost · scores use the balanced profile Jump to list
Which one for whom
OVERALL65 IONOS · Cloud Cube M score leader Get plan

These picks are pure data, not scores: three-year real cost and flat renewal.

Sort: 3-year real cost
3-year real cost Score Renewal price First-term price
1 providers · 2/18 plans

Prices last checked: 24 Sep 2026 · ranked by 3-year real cost · scores use the balanced profile

IONOS · Cloud Cube XS First term $6.68/mo · monthly
54score
—
36-month total
—
no measurements for this provider
—
TTFB

1 vCPU 2 GB RAM Storage 60 GB NVMe Root access Hourly billing API access

Renewal price unknown Monthly billing
1 more plan from IONOS
Cloud Cube M — Renewal Get plan
Details Get plan

We show each provider's single best plan for the chosen sort; the rest sit under the card. Some links here may pay us a commission. It never changes the order.

How we rank
How we rank
  • The default order is the score; the renewal price, not the promo price, is what counts.
  • Each provider shows its single best plan for the chosen order; the rest sit under the card.
  • Payment, partnership or coupons never change the order.
Read the full details →

The decision, from the data
For the long run, the cheapest known renewal is HostArmada Start Dock at $9.95/mo.
If only the first term matters, HostArmada Start Dock starts at $1.99/mo.
Watch out for HostArmada Start Dock — its renewal jumps to ×5.0 of the promo price.
Which plan has the lowest renewal price here?
HostArmada Start Dock, at $9.95/mo renewal — the promo price is excluded from this answer on purpose.
How much do renewals typically jump in this category?
Across the 18 plans we track, the median renewal is ×1.1 of the first-term price.
How fresh are these prices?
The newest record on this page is 3 days old; every row carries its own date.
How many plans have 8 GB+ RAM?
1 of the 18 plans have 8 GB or more RAM. You can narrow with the RAM filter; plans without spec data are not counted.