Best VPS 2023 under $40

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In the 12 months up to June 2023, VPSBenchmarks tested and reviewed 23 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 4th revision of the Best VPS under $40 ranking in 2023. These are the older revisions:


1st

Alwyzon

Price per month: 24.79€
Number of CPU cores: 8
Disk space: 240 GB
Memory: 16.0 GB
Trial Data: Apr 16 2023


Score

79


Ranks per Category

2nd in Web Performance

B

2nd in Raw CPU Power

A

7th in Performance Stability

C

3rd in Disk IO Performance

B

1st in Network Performance

B


2nd

LayerStack

LayerStack

PRO200-HK

Price per month: $32.00
Number of CPU cores: 4
Disk space: 200 GB
Memory: 8.0 GB
Trial Data: Jun 07 2023


Score

69


Ranks per Category

3rd in Web Performance

B

4th in Raw CPU Power

B

16th in Performance Stability

D

2nd in Disk IO Performance

A

7th in Network Performance

C


3rd

Genesis PC

Genesis Public Cloud

c6s.xlarge

Price per month: $33.20
Number of CPU cores: 2
Disk space: 40 GB
Memory: 8.0 GB
Trial Data: Jan 21 2023


Score

68


Ranks per Category

1st in Web Performance

B

12th in Raw CPU Power

C

1st in Performance Stability

A

7th in Disk IO Performance

C

9th 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 2023

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

Virtual Server L 2023
Tests started on Apr 16 2023
24.79€ ($27.27) 79 B A C B B

2

PRO200-HK
Tests started on Jun 07 2023
$32.00 69 B B D A C

3

c6s.xlarge
Tests started on Jan 21 2023
$33.20 68 B C A C C

4

CPU Optimized 1-2-25
Tests started on Jan 27 2023
$28.00 63 B D B B C

5

VPS Comfort
Tests started on Jul 07 2022
$27.30 63 C C C B B

6

NVMe 32GB
Tests started on Jul 30 2022
$29.00 61 C A C C D

7

HP-8 NVMe 2022 (Off rankings)
Tests started on Oct 03 2022
31.96€ ($35.16) 50 C B D D D

8

VPS V4I8
Tests started on Sep 17 2022
25.00€ ($27.50) 47 E D C C D

9

LS 2x6
Tests started on Feb 16 2023
$40.00 47 C D D C D

10

VPS XXL
Tests started on Feb 21 2023
$35.00 47 E B D D D

11

Cloud VPS 4
Tests started on Dec 04 2022
29.00€ ($31.90) 46 C C B F E

12

VPS XL NVMe (Off rankings)
Tests started on Mar 08 2023
31.00€ ($34.10) 45 D A F D D

13

GP-16 NVMe
Tests started on Feb 03 2023
32.99€ ($36.29) 44 D B F C D

14

B2-7
Tests started on Jan 13 2023
$29.04 43 D E C C D

15

4GB 2 cores
Tests started on Apr 18 2023
26.00€ ($28.60) 37 E D D D D

16

Cloud Server RAM L
Tests started on Jan 05 2023
$30.00 32 E E C E D

17

B2-7
Tests started on Feb 14 2023
24.20€ ($26.62) 32 E E C E D

18

8GB 4 cores
Tests started on Jun 26 2023
28.00€ ($30.80) 28 E C F F E

Other Providers

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

1

4GB 2 cores
Tests started on Jun 09 2023
26.96€ ($29.66) 64 C D B A C

2

m.8
Tests started on Aug 05 2022
$28.00 53 D C B C D

3

c7g.medium
Tests started on Jun 30 2022
$27.74 49 C E B F C

4

Basic Premium AMD 4GB 2cores
Tests started on Oct 14 2022
$28.00 43 E D D C C

5

PLAY2-NANO
Tests started on Nov 14 2022
26.08€ ($28.69) 42 D D C F C

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