This January, VPSBenchmarks tested and reviewed 15 VPS hosting plans. We judged them on their speed, stability and affordability. These are the best 3 VPS with the best value.
This ranking is Price Weighted and favors the VPS that generate the most power for every dollar you spend. Plans with high performance and low price are ranked higher than high price plans with the same performance. For the ranking that ignores prices, go to Best VPS January 2021.
The VPS tested in January 2021 are a subset of all the VPS we have reviewed over the past 12 months. Go to the Screener to get the entire list of cloud server plans available today, ranked and graded.
We build a new ranking every month with all the VPS tested during the interval. Check out the list of all current and past rankings.
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.
All grades in this chart are price weighted.
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 | |
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1 |
DC108-HK Tests started on Jan 18 2021 |
$32.00 | 67 | A PW | C PW | C PW | B PW | C PW |
2 |
8GB 4 cores Tests started on Jan 20 2021 |
52.00€ ($57.20) | 60 | C PW | B PW | C PW | C PW | C PW |
3 |
vm.c6sd.3xlarge (Off rankings) Tests started on Jan 10 2021 |
$78.00 | 63 | A PW | A PW | B PW | E PW | D PW |
4 |
Regular 8GB 4 cores Tests started on Jan 24 2021 |
$40.00 | 55 | D PW | B PW | E PW | C PW | C PW |
5 |
Cloud Server XL Tests started on Jan 02 2021 |
$35.00 | 55 | C PW | B PW | C PW | C PW | D PW |
6 |
VPS XL SSD Tests started on Jan 12 2021 |
31.49€ ($34.64) | 45 | D PW | B PW | F PW | D PW | D PW |
7 |
16GB 8 cores Tests started on Jan 29 2021 |
$84.85 | 42 | E PW | B PW | F PW | D PW | D PW |
Plan | Price | Score | Web Perf | Raw CPU Power | Perf Stability | Disk IO Perf | Network Perf | |
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1 |
Slice 2048 Tests started on Jan 01 2021 |
$7.00 | 76 | A PW | B PW | B PW | B PW | C PW |
2 |
G3.2GB Tests started on Jan 22 2021 |
$10.00 | 68 | B PW | D PW | B PW | B PW | B PW |
3 |
Runway 2 (Off rankings) Tests started on Jan 17 2021 |
$14.99 | 61 | B PW | C PW | B PW | D PW | B PW |
4 |
CCX11 Tests started on Jan 07 2021 |
21.85€ ($24.04) | 62 | C PW | C PW | C PW | B PW | B PW |
5 |
Smart M Tests started on Jan 26 2021 |
$60.00 | 53 | D PW | A PW | E PW | C PW | B PW |
6 |
n1-standard-1 Tests started on Jan 04 2021 |
$27.67 | 41 | D PW | E PW | B PW | D PW | E PW |
7 |
CPU Optimized 4GB Tests started on Jan 14 2021 |
$47.00 | 40 | D PW | D PW | D PW | D PW | E PW |