Cost calculator
The number that matters is not the sticker price — it is what you pay per month across the whole time you keep the box. Work out the monthly equivalent, and what the same money buys on a different route.
Monthly plans usually cost about 15% more than the yearly equivalent. That 15% is an assumption, not a measured figure — it is there to show the size of the gap, and to show what you give up if the vendor disappears.
The same budget, other routes
Typical tiers on this site, for comparison. Prices are what they were when last checked — always confirm on the vendor site.
| Vendor | Route | Price | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|
| BandwagonHost | CN2 GIA · CN2 GT · Unicom 9929 · Japan SoftBank | $49.99 per quarter | $NaN |
| Tencent Cloud Lighthouse | Domestic Hosting · Ordinary International Transit | ¥45 per month, entry plan (¥459/yr) | — |
| China Telecom Cloud Application Cloud Server | Domestic Hosting | ¥94 per month, CPU and memory only | — |
| JD Cloud Lightweight Virtual Machine | Domestic Hosting | ¥43.56 per month, entry plan | — |
| Baidu AI Cloud Lightweight Application Server | Domestic Hosting | ¥130 per month, 8.3x off annually | — |
| GreenCloudVPS | CN2 GIA · Unicom 9929 · Mobile CMI | $6 per month, Budget KVM VPS | $NaN |
| HostDare | CN2 GIA | $40.99 per year, cheapest CN2 GIA NVMe KVM VPS | $NaN |
| LightNode | Ordinary International Transit | $7.70 per month | $NaN |
| V.PS | Ordinary International Transit | €6.95 per month, Cloud / Storage KVM VPS | $NaN |
| Cloudie | Ordinary International Transit | $19.00 per month, Bull VPS Server | $NaN |
| LisaHost | CN2 GIA · Unicom 9929 · 163 Backbone | ¥499 per year (about ¥41 a month) | — |
| RFCHost | China-optimised, Backbone Unstated · Ordinary International Transit | $24.99 from, billing period not stated | $NaN |
| ZgoCloud | CN2 GIA · Unicom 9929 · Mobile CMI · Ordinary International Transit | $8.00 from, Los Angeles Global, international route | $NaN |
| BuyVM | Ordinary International Transit | $24.00 per year, Dedicated KVM Slice 512 | $NaN |
| VirMach | Ordinary International Transit | $1.50 per month, Linux KVM VPS | $NaN |
| Evohosts | Ordinary International Transit | €9.99 per month, VPS S | $NaN |
| ColoCrossing | Ordinary International Transit | $3.95 per month, 1 GB VPS | $NaN |
| HostSailor | Ordinary International Transit | $1.95 per month, HDD Storage VPS | $NaN |
| HostKVM | CN2 GIA · Mobile CMI · Unicom CUG | $8.00 per month, HKGO2-Bronze | $NaN |
| BlueVPS | Ordinary International Transit | $6.00 per month, NVMe-bKVM 1024 | $NaN |
| Shinjiru | Ordinary International Transit | $9.90 per month, OpenVZ Linux VPS Basic, 24-month term | $NaN |
| Hetzner | Ordinary International Transit | €5.99 per month, CX23, excluding VAT | $NaN |
| OVHcloud | Ordinary International Transit | $4.54 per month, VPS-1 | $NaN |
| netcup | Ordinary International Transit | €8.26 per month, VPS 500 G12.5, 12-month contract | $NaN |
| DigitalOcean | Ordinary International Transit | $4.00 per month, Basic Droplet | $NaN |
| Akamai Cloud (Linode) | Ordinary International Transit | $5.00 per month, g6-nanode-1 | $NaN |
| Scaleway | Ordinary International Transit | €0.43 per month, STARDUST1-S | $NaN |
| Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) | Ordinary International Transit | $0 per month, Always Free allowance | $NaN |
| Amazon Lightsail | Ordinary International Transit | $3.50 per month, IPv6-only bundle | $NaN |
| Google Cloud | Ordinary International Transit | $0 per month, Free Tier 1 e2-micro instance | $NaN |
| LayerStack | CN2 GIA · Ordinary International Transit | $7.00 per month, Arm-Based Cloud Server | $NaN |
| Gullo's Hosting | Ordinary International Transit | $3.50 per year, NAT IPv4 128 MB, banded up to $5 by location | $NaN |
| Hostwinds | Ordinary International Transit | $10.99 per month, Linux VPS 1 CPU / 1 GB / 30 GB SSD / 1 TB | $NaN |
| TMDHosting | Ordinary International Transit | $57.50 per month, Managed cPanel 4GB, billed annually | $NaN |
The per-month column divides the annual price by 12 and ignores extra IPv4 or extras. It is a comparison aid, not a quote.
Only vendors whose prices we checked ourselves appear here. The rest are on the shortlist with a live-price link instead of a number.