In the 12 months up to August 2020, VPSBenchmarks tested and reviewed 26 VPS hosting plans in the $25/month to $40/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 $40 ranking in 2020. These are the older revisions:
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.
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Plan | Price | Score | Web Perf | Raw CPU Power | Perf Stability | Disk IO Perf | Network Perf | |
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1 |
General 4GB 2 cores Tests started on Feb 03 2020 |
$42.00 | 82 | B | B | B | B | A |
2 |
vm.c5sd.2xlarge Tests started on May 29 2020 |
$40.00 | 79 | A | A | A | D | B |
3 |
8GB 4 cores Tests started on Apr 10 2020 |
28.00€ ($30.80) | 70 | A | A | B | E | C |
4 |
Cloud Server RAM L Tests started on Jan 11 2020 |
$30.00 | 69 | B | B | A | B | D |
5 |
R108-HK Tests started on Jul 24 2020 |
$28.06 | 67 | B | C | C | C | B |
6 |
Regular 8GB 4 cores Tests started on Feb 07 2020 |
$40.00 | 67 | C | B | B | C | C |
7 |
8GB 4 cores Tests started on Jun 15 2020 |
52.00€ ($57.20) | 66 | D | A | D | B | B |
8 |
VPS V4I8 Tests started on Feb 11 2020 |
25.00€ ($27.50) | 64 | C | B | C | B | C |
9 |
PRO VMware 2GB 1 core Tests started on Jun 17 2020 |
21.90€ ($24.09) | 62 | C | E | A | C | B |
10 |
VPS XL Tests started on Aug 19 2020 |
$25.00 | 57 | C | B | C | B | F |
11 |
C2-7 Tests started on Feb 24 2020 |
$42.24 | 52 | B | C | B | E | E |
12 |
B2-7 Tests started on Apr 29 2020 |
$29.04 | 45 | C | D | B | E | E |
Plan | Price | Score | Web Perf | Raw CPU Power | Perf Stability | Disk IO Perf | Network Perf | |
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1 |
8GB 2cores Tests started on Feb 13 2020 |
$44.00 | 64 | B | D | A | D | C |
2 |
m.8 Tests started on May 05 2020 |
$28.00 | 62 | C | B | D | C | C |
3 |
Dedicated 4GB Tests started on Jan 28 2020 |
$36.00 | 59 | C | D | B | C | B |
4 |
t3-medium Tests started on Jan 04 2020 |
$29.95 | 59 | C | C | C | D | B |
5 |
CPU Optimized 4GB Tests started on Feb 29 2020 |
$47.00 | 58 | C | D | D | B | A |
6 |
Shared 8GB Tests started on Jul 15 2020 |
$48.00 | 55 | E | B | D | C | C |
7 |
B2s Tests started on Nov 25 2019 |
$30.37 | 52 | B | C | D | F | A |
8 |
Standard 2GB Tests started on Mar 09 2020 |
$29.99 | 51 | D | D | C | C | D |
9 |
e2-highcpu-2 Tests started on Dec 30 2019 |
$36.11 | 50 | C | C | B | E | D |
10 |
Premium 8GB Tests started on Mar 04 2020 |
$40.00 | 50 | C | C | E | C | C |
11 |
F1s Tests started on Feb 02 2020 |
$36.50 | 49 | C | E | B | F | B |
12 |
ecs.c5.large Tests started on May 07 2020 |
$37.52 | 47 | C | C | B | E | F |
13 |
G2 4GB (Off rankings) Tests started on Feb 15 2020 |
$40.00 | 39 | E | D | D | C | E |
14 |
t3a.medium Tests started on Nov 04 2019 |
$31.00 | 28 | F | E | F | D | C |