Best VPS 2020 under $25

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In the 12 months up to July 2020, VPSBenchmarks tested and reviewed 37 VPS hosting plans in the $10/month to $25/month price range. We evaluated them on their CPU power, network, disk speed, web performance and stability.

This Best VPS 2024 rankings are updated approximately every other month. Check out the list of current and past rankings in all price ranges.


This is the 2nd revision of the Best VPS under $25 ranking in 2020. These are the older revisions:


1st

Kamatera

Kamatera

Availability 8GB 4 cores (Off rankings)

Price per month: $42.00
Number of CPU cores: 4
Disk space: 80 GB
Memory: 8.0 GB
Trial Data: Mar 17 2020


Score

79


Ranks per Category

2nd in Web Performance

A

1st in Raw CPU Power

A

21st in Performance Stability

D

10th in Disk IO Performance

B

1st in Network Performance

A


2nd

Kamatera

Price per month: $19.00
Number of CPU cores: 2
Disk space: 40 GB
Memory: 4.0 GB
Trial Data: Jun 22 2020


Score

73


Ranks per Category

7th in Web Performance

B

8th in Raw CPU Power

B

26th in Performance Stability

D

8th in Disk IO Performance

B

2nd in Network Performance

A


3rd

GenVMs

Genesis VMs

vm.c5sd.xlarge

Price per month: $20.00
Number of CPU cores: 2
Disk space: 100 GB
Memory: 8.0 GB
Trial Data: Feb 25 2020


Score

73


Ranks per Category

1st in Web Performance

A

5th in Raw CPU Power

B

1st in Performance Stability

A

25th in Disk IO Performance

D

14th in Network Performance

C


All Grades in a Chart

How are grades calculated?

Each horizontal bar section in the chart below represents a grade value: A: [16-20], F: [0-3]. The total bar length is the Score.


Rankings for all VPS tested during 2020

Click on a grade letter to review detailed performance metrics.

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Plan Price Score Web Perf Raw CPU Power Perf Stability Disk IO Perf Network Perf

1

Availability 8GB 4 cores (Off rankings)
Tests started on Mar 17 2020
$42.00 79 A A D B A

2

Availability 4GB 2 cores
Tests started on Jun 22 2020
$19.00 73 B B D B A

3

vm.c5sd.xlarge
Tests started on Feb 25 2020
$20.00 73 A B A D C

4

Regular 4GB 2 cores
Tests started on May 03 2020
$20.00 71 C B C B B

5

4GB 2 cores
Tests started on Mar 06 2020
26.00€ ($28.60) 71 B C A B D

6

VPS L
Tests started on Apr 08 2020
$15.00 70 B B A B D

7

Cloud Server L
Tests started on May 04 2020
$20.00 69 B B A B D

8

w6as.large (Off rankings)
Tests started on Apr 25 2020
$24.60 68 B D A B C

9

4GB 2 cores 60GB (Off rankings)
Tests started on May 25 2020
16.00€ ($17.60) 63 B B B E C

10

PRO VMware 2GB 1 core
Tests started on Jun 17 2020
21.90€ ($24.09) 62 C E A C B

11

High Frequency 2GB
Tests started on May 12 2020
$12.00 58 C E C B B

12

VPS V2I4
Tests started on Dec 21 2019
12.50€ ($13.75) 57 D D B B C

13

VPS Comfort
Tests started on May 28 2020
$27.30 47 E B D C D

14

S1-8 (Off rankings)
Tests started on Jan 08 2020
$15.59 38 D D C E F

15

Premium
Tests started on May 20 2020
20.00€ ($22.00) 32 D C D F F

16

Basic
Tests started on Jun 28 2020
10.00€ ($11.00) 15 F E E F F

Other Providers

Plan Price Score Web Perf Raw CPU Power Perf Stability Disk IO Perf Network Perf

1

CPX31
Tests started on Jul 13 2020
13.60€ ($14.96) 67 C A D B B

2

s.2
Tests started on Dec 16 2019
$14.00 63 C A D B C

3

12GB $14
Tests started on Nov 30 2019
$14.00 59 E B D A C

4

KVM Premium 2GB
Tests started on May 18 2020
$15.00 56 B D B D D

5

CCX11
Tests started on Dec 09 2019
21.85€ ($24.04) 56 D C D C B

6

Basic Regular 4GB 2 cores
Tests started on Nov 06 2019
$24.00 55 D C C C C

7

m.4
Tests started on Mar 31 2020
$14.00 50 D C D B D

8

gp1.lightspeed
Tests started on Nov 27 2019
$24.00 50 C D C E C

9

e2-medium
Tests started on Apr 14 2020
$24.46 49 D C B E D

10

4GB 2cores
Tests started on May 16 2020
$24.00 48 B E D E C

11

t3.small
Tests started on Apr 17 2020
$14.98 46 D C E D B

12

DEV1-L
Tests started on Apr 06 2020
40.47€ ($44.52) 43 E C F D C

13

G2 2GB (Off rankings)
Tests started on Nov 20 2019
$20.00 42 E D D C D

14

B1MS
Tests started on Mar 21 2020
$15.11 42 C E D F B

15

n1-standard-1
Tests started on Oct 28 2019
$27.67 34 E D D E D

16

g1-small
Tests started on Jul 21 2020
$13.13 34 D E C E E

17

gp1_supersonic
Tests started on Mar 13 2020
$12.00 30 E F B E F

18

ecs.t5-lc1m1.small
Tests started on Nov 15 2019
$6.52 28 D E D D F

19

ecs.n4.small
Tests started on Jun 30 2020
$13.66 23 E E D E F

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