Best VPS 2024 under $40

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In the 12 months up to February 2024, VPSBenchmarks tested and reviewed 25 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 2024. These are the older revisions:


1st

HostHatch

HostHatch

NVMe 32GB

Price per month: $29.00
Number of CPU cores: 8
Disk space: 125 GB
Memory: 32.0 GB
Trial Data: Sep 15 2023


Score

85


Ranks per Category

2nd in Web Performance

A

2nd in Raw CPU Power

A

4th in Performance Stability

B

1st in Disk IO Performance

A

4th in Network Performance

B


2nd

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

3rd in Web Performance

B

3rd in Raw CPU Power

A

9th in Performance Stability

C

3rd in Disk IO Performance

B

2nd in Network Performance

B


3rd

Vultr

Price per month: $40.00
Number of CPU cores: 2
Disk space: 50 GB
Memory: 4.0 GB
Trial Data: Dec 17 2023


Score

71


Ranks per Category

4th in Web Performance

B

12th in Raw CPU Power

C

11th in Performance Stability

C

4th in Disk IO Performance

B

5th in Network Performance

B


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 2024

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

NVMe 32GB
Tests started on Sep 15 2023
$29.00 85 A A B A B

2

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

3

CPU Optimized 2-4-50
Tests started on Dec 17 2023
$40.00 71 B C C B B

4

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

5

VPS Linux XL
Tests started on Aug 19 2023
$28.00 68 B A B D B

6

4GB 2 cores
Tests started on Dec 05 2023
26.00€ ($28.60) 61 B C A D D

7

KVM 4
Tests started on Oct 23 2023
$29.99 61 A B A E E

8

ROCK-6
Tests started on Feb 06 2024
£30.00 ($37.80) 60 C C D B C

9

C3-4
Tests started on Feb 22 2024
30.60€ ($33.66) 58 B C C B D

10

R108-TP
Tests started on Jan 24 2024
$28.06 58 C D C B E

11

VPS Comfort
Tests started on Jun 29 2023
23.50€ ($25.85) 57 C C D C C

12

VPS O16A32
Tests started on Aug 08 2023
31.29€ ($34.42) 57 D A C E B

13

GP-16 NVMe
Tests started on Nov 03 2023
32.99€ ($36.29) 50 D B F B D

14

Premium 1Gbps
Tests started on Nov 08 2023
30.00€ ($33.00) 45 C B D F D

15

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

16

Cloud VPS 4
Tests started on Jan 17 2024
29.00€ ($31.90) 44 C C C F D

17

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

8 cores 16GB
Tests started on Feb 15 2024
$40.00 55 D C C C D

2

PerformanceVPS C2
Tests started on Aug 13 2023
36.50€ ($40.15) 51 C D B E C

3

m7g.medium
Tests started on Jul 28 2023
$30.98 50 C E A F C

4

E5 2 threads 4GB
Tests started on Nov 28 2023
$27.36 48 B C B F D

5

CO-4
Tests started on Aug 15 2023
$36.00 43 D D B D E

6

Dedicated 4GB
Tests started on Dec 25 2023
$36.00 42 E E E C B

7

B2als v2
Tests started on Sep 06 2023
$27.44 41 B D E F C

8

BladeVPS X4
Tests started on Jan 12 2024
25.99€ ($28.59) 25 F E E F C

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