VPS Prices by Location: What the Same Server Costs in Five Cities

The same virtual machine does not cost the same in every city. A KVM VPS in Bucharest is our base price, and every other site adds a location fee on top of it, because transit, power and rack space cost different amounts in Romania, Poland, the Netherlands, Germany and Austria. This post lists the real figure for all six plans in all five European cities, per month and per hour, so you can price a project before you open the order form.

Everything below is our live catalogue in euro, before VAT where it applies. You can also switch the storefront to US dollars or Romanian leu, and the order page shows the exact amount in your currency before you confirm.

The five European cities we deploy a VPS in

We rack dedicated servers in twelve locations, and virtual machines run in six of them. The five in Europe are below, with the round trip from our Frankfurt hub as published on the locations page. The sixth is Ashburn in the US East region, where the six plans below cost the same as in Frankfurt and Vienna; our Ashburn post has its own tables.

City	Country	Facility	From Frankfurt	Role
Frankfurt	Germany	Equinix	1 ms	Primary hub, DE CIX
Amsterdam	Netherlands	Equinix	3 ms	Second hub, AMS IX
Vienna	Austria	Interxion	4 ms	Bridge into Central Europe
Warsaw	Poland	Equinix	7 ms	Largest hub in the CEE region
Bucharest	Romania	Voxility	10 ms	Scrubbing capacity, lowest price

What the location fee is

Every plan has one base price. Bucharest is sold at that base with no addition, which is why Romania is always the cheapest row in the tables below. The other sites carry a monthly location fee that we publish on the order form next to the city name. Amsterdam and Warsaw carry the same fee as each other, and Frankfurt and Vienna carry the same fee as each other, slightly higher than the Dutch and Polish figure.

The fee is stored as a monthly number and converted for the cycle you buy. On a quarterly order it is multiplied by three. On an annual order it is multiplied by twelve. On an hourly order it is divided by 720, the same divisor we use for the plan itself, which is why the hourly rates below end in four decimals.

Monthly price in each city

Six plans, from a 2 GB machine to a 32 GB machine. Every one is a full KVM virtual machine with its own kernel, its own RAM allocation and its own disk on a mirrored SSD pool.

Plan	RAM	vCPU	SSD	Bucharest	Amsterdam and Warsaw	Frankfurt and Vienna
Ion	2 GB	1	20 GB	€4.50	€5.50	€6.00
Pulse	4 GB	2	40 GB	€6.50	€8.50	€9.50
Core	8 GB	2	60 GB	€11.00	€15.00	€17.00
Forge	16 GB	4	80 GB	€18.00	€26.00	€28.00
Apex	24 GB	6	100 GB	€33.00	€45.00	€47.00
Titan	32 GB	8	120 GB	€64.00	€80.00	€84.00

A quarterly order is three times the monthly figure. An annual order prices the plan itself at about ten percent below twelve monthly payments, while the location fee is charged for twelve months at face value. An annual Ion in Vienna is therefore €48.60 for the plan plus €18.00 for the location, which is €66.60 for the year against €72.00 paid month by month.

Hourly rate in each city

Every plan in the table above can also be taken by the hour instead of by the month. The hourly rate is the monthly price divided by 720, and the location fee is divided by 720 as well and added on top. Four decimal places are not decoration, they are what we actually deduct.

Plan	Bucharest	Amsterdam and Warsaw	Frankfurt and Vienna
Ion	€0.0063	€0.0077	€0.0084
Pulse	€0.0090	€0.0118	€0.0132
Core	€0.0153	€0.0209	€0.0236
Forge	€0.0250	€0.0361	€0.0389
Apex	€0.0458	€0.0625	€0.0652
Titan	€0.0889	€0.1111	€0.1167

Streaming plans are a separate range and are sold by the month, quarter or year rather than by the hour. They live on the CDN origin page.

Four worked examples

• A 40 hour load test on a Forge in Vienna. 40 hours at €0.0389 is €1.56.
• A week of an Ion in Bucharest. 168 hours at €0.0063 is €1.06.
• A six hour render on a Titan in Frankfurt. 6 hours at €0.1167 is €0.70.
• A Core in Warsaw left running all month. A 31 day month is 744 hours, which at €0.0209 would be €15.55, but hourly billing stops at 720 hours, €15.05, against €15.00 for the monthly cycle. If a machine never switches off, buy the month.

How hourly billing works here

Hourly servers are paid from account credit rather than invoiced after the fact. The practical rules are short.

• You need at least €5 of credit on the account to place an hourly order. Credit can be topped up from €5 to €1000 at a time, and automatic top up is available if you would rather not think about it.
• We deduct the rate once an hour for as long as the server exists.
• When your balance is about a day away from running out, we email a warning. If it does run out, the server is suspended an hour later and terminated 48 hours after that. Topping up before then brings it straight back.
• You get one summary invoice for the month covering the hours you used.
• A powered off server still bills. The disk, the IPv4 address and the reserved capacity are all still yours while the machine exists. Deleting it is what stops the meter.
• Hourly billing is capped at the monthly price. In any calendar month the meter stops after 720 hours, so a server left on all month costs the same as the monthly cycle, give or take a cent of rounding. Anything permanently on is still simpler on a monthly, quarterly or annual cycle, and the annual cycle is cheaper.

If you want to compare a duty cycle against a monthly plan before you buy, the sizing calculator does the arithmetic, and our older piece on hourly against monthly billing covers where the break even sits.

What the price includes

• One IPv4 address. Additional addresses are €1.50 each per month, up to ten on one server.
• Unmetered traffic. There is no monthly transfer allowance to exceed and no overage line on the invoice.
• A wide image list, including Debian 10 through 13, Ubuntu 18.04 through 26.04 LTS, AlmaLinux and Rocky 8 and 9, CentOS Stream 9 and 10, Oracle Linux 9, Fedora, openSUSE Leap, Arch and FreeBSD 14 and 15. In Europe, Windows Server images are offered on our dedicated servers, not on the VPS range. In Ashburn, in the US, a separate Windows RDP range runs Windows Server on your own licence.
• Extra disk in 50 GB units at €4 per unit per month, up to three units, so 150 GB above the plan.
• Power control, a console, a reinstall and a password reset in the client panel, plus the location choice at order time.
• No setup fee on any VPS plan, and hourly orders waive setup fees entirely.

Which city to choose

• Most of your users are in Western Europe. Frankfurt, and Amsterdam if you want a second site on a different exchange.
• Austria, Czechia, Slovakia, Hungary, Slovenia or southern Germany. Vienna, which is 4 ms from the hub and much closer to those users than Amsterdam is.
• Poland or the Baltics. Warsaw. Western European sites reach Poland poorly compared with a machine sitting in it.
• Attack pressure, or the lowest price. Bucharest, which has long standing scrubbing capacity and is our base price everywhere on the list.
• Data must stay in the EU but not in Germany. Vienna, Warsaw or Bucharest, all inside the EU and the EEA.

Our guide on choosing a datacenter location goes through the decision in more depth, including peering and data residency.

Ordering

Pick a plan on the VPS page, choose the city, choose an image, and the machine is ready a few minutes later. If you are unsure whether a plan is the right size, or whether the workload wants a virtual machine at all rather than a bare metal server, reply to any email from us with the numbers you have. We answer with a recommendation, not a quote.