Best VPS 2025
In the 12 months up to January 2025, VPSBenchmarks put 3 cloud servers from 3 providers through a demanding suite of benchmarks to evaluate their performance as web servers, their capacity to handle heavy loads, their stability and the speed at which they can transfer data through the network. These are the Best VPS in 6 price ranges.
See also Best VPS 2024.
A few words about the winners
Hostup is a Swedish provider with 10 years of hosting experience, attractive pricing and exceptionally fast storage.
OnetSolutions is based in France, it offers Web Hosting services, domain registration and VPS servers on the most recent hardware in two VPS product lines.
Layerstack is a provider based in Singapore with data centers in 5 locations in south-east Asia and America. It offers a wide array of products ranging from Cloud Servers to Object Storage.
Alwyzon is a provider based in Austria with fast hardware, very competitive prices and a central location in Europe.
OVHcloud US offers comprehensive cloud services in the United States.
Snakecraft Hosting is an American provider who offers VPS and Game hosting hosting products.
Webyne has data center locations in India and it offers VPS, Dedicated servers and GPU servers hosting products.
Contabo is a large German provider with 7 locations across the world where is offers Web, Dedicated and VPS hosting products.
Server Optima is a new entrant based in the United States who offers VPS, Dedicated servers, GPUs, Cloud storage and CDN hosting products.
Evoxt has its headquarters in Malaysia and data center locations in 7 countries on 3 continents. It offers VPS and domain hosting products.
Monthly Rankings
We also publish a new ranking every month with just the VPS that were tested during the previous 30 days. It's declined in 2 variants: "Best VPS" and "Best Value VPS". The same products have been tested in both but in the Value ranking, the grades and scores are price weighted.
These are the rankings for all servers tested in December 2024 at any price.
These are the rankings for all servers tested in November 2024 at any price.
These are the rankings for all servers tested in October 2024 at any price.
Special Mentions
Special Mentions are awards granted to featured providers for being the fastest in a performance category. In addition to grade categories (Web, CPU, Disk IO, Stability and Network), a Special Mention is also awarded to the fastest VPS that costs less than $5/month.
All winners were the fastest in their category based on all public trials run during the 12 months up to January 1st 2025.
| Category | Provider | Plan | Value |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fastest overall for less than $5/month |
 Contabo |
Cloud VPS 1 Cores: 4 RAM: 6.0 GB Price: $4.95 Trial: Oct 25 2024 |
Overall Score: 85 / 100 (Price Weighted) |
| Fastest CPU in single threaded test |
 Snakecraft Hosting |
Ryzen VPS-2 Cores: 1 RAM: 4.0 GB Price: $17.00 Trial: Jan 07 2024 |
2555 ops/sec |
| Fastest Disk IO |
 LayerStack |
PRO300-HK Cores: 8 RAM: 16.0 GB Price: $64.00 Trial: Dec 04 2024 |
Disk IO Performance Score: 95 / 100 |
| Fastest Web Server |
Snakecraft Hosting |
Ryzen VPS-7 Cores: 6 RAM: 24.0 GB Price: $97.00 Trial: Apr 07 2024 |
Web Performance Score: 97 / 100 |
| Most Stable |
 MoonQube |
st1.large 2023 Cores: 4 RAM: 8.0 GB Price: $40.00 Trial: Mar 28 2024 |
Performance Stability Score: 95 / 100 |
| Fastest Network Transfers |
 HostUp |
VPS XXL Cores: 32 RAM: 128.0 GB Price: $115.20 Trial: May 05 2024 |
Network Performance Score: 86 / 100 |