IBM Cloud Review
IBM Cloud was founded as a VPS provider in 2007.
It is headquartered in the USA.
It offers VPS, Storage and Networking hosting products.
- Australia
- Brazil
- Canada
- France
- Germany
- Japan
- Netherlands
- United Kingdom
- United States
Quick Links
| IBM Cloud plans specs and prices | Plans |
| IBM Cloud instance types | Instance Types |
| How fast are IBM Cloud servers? Check them out in the Screener | Screener |
| List of IBM Cloud trials | Trials |
| Review CPU models found in IBM Cloud trials | CPUs |
| Performance variations of IBM Cloud VPS over the long term | Consistency |
| List of IBM Cloud yabs.sh results | Yabs |
IBM Cloud VPS Features
Features not included in the VPS price are marked as missing below.
IBM Cloud Extra Services
In addition to features included in VPS plans, IBM Cloud also sells the services marked green in the following table:
| Backups | Block storage | Object storage | Load balancer |
| Floating IP addresses | Team Management | Managed databases | Serverless |
| DDoS protection | Kubernetes | GPU instances | Private network |
VPS Instance Provisioning Time
For each IBM Cloud VPS trial, we measured how long it took to provision the server from the moment it was ordered to the moment it accepted SSH connections.
See also VPS provisioning times for all providers.
| Average Provisioning Time | Min Provisioning Time | Max Provisioning Time | Number of VPS Samples |
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| 100s | 100s | 100s | 1 |
Control Panel Screenshots
Network Bandwidth Prices
These are the network bandwidth prices charged by IBM Cloud for outbound transfers from VPS to the internet.
For a comparison of bandwidth prices from all providers, go to the Network Bandwitdh Prices page.
| Description | Price / GB |
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Pricing model: Allowance Then Charged
(the provider gives a free bandwidth allowance with each server. Bandwidth above the free allowance is charged by the provider.)
Free allowance: 5 GB / month
(for a 2 core 4GB instance or closest available)
Transfer pool: yes
IBM Cloud networking
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Between 0TB and 0.005TB: $0.000/GB Between 0.005TB and 10TB: $0.087/GB Between 10TB and 50TB: $0.083/GB Between 50TB and 150TB: $0.070/GB Above 150TB: $0.050/GB |
IBM Cloud Instance Types and Plans
Note: All VPS prices reported at VPSBenchmarks are for one month without any further commitment and before promotions unless noted otherwise. The IPv4 charge is added to the VPS monthly price in case the provider doesn't include it by default.
| Plan | Number of CPU cores | RAM | Storage | Monthly Price |
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| Family: Classic Infrastructure Instance Type: Balanced |
Public multi-tenant servers with local storage and balanced ratio of CPU and RAM.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers-classic
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| BL2.1x2 | 1 | 2.0GB | 100GB | $24.00 / month |
| BL2.2x4 | 2 | 4.0GB | 100GB | $62.68 / month |
| Family: Classic Infrastructure Instance Type: Compute |
Compute profiles are best for moderate to high web-traffic workloads, such as workloads with intensive CPU demands, including production batch processing and front-end web servers.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers-classic
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| C1.1x1 | 1 | 1.0GB | 25GB | $25.21 / month |
| Family: Classic Infrastructure Instance Type: Variable Compute |
Burstable instances. Compute profiles are best for moderate to high web-traffic workloads, such as workloads with intensive CPU demands, including production batch processing and front-end web servers.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers-classic
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| U1.1x2 | 1 | 2.0GB | 25GB | $13.93 / month |
| U1.2x4 | 2 | 4.0GB | 25GB | $30.24 / month |
| Family: Classic Infrastructure Instance Type: Memory |
Memory profiles are best for memory-intensive workloads, such as large memory-caching workloads, intensive database applications or in-memory and real-time analytics workloads.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers-classic
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| Family: VPC Instance Type: Balanced bx2 |
Balanced profiles offer a core to RAM ratio 1 vCPU to 4 GiB of RAM ratio and are best for midsize databases and common cloud applications with moderate traffic.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers
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| Family: VPC Instance Type: Compute cx2 |
Compute profiles offer a core to RAM ratio 1 vCPU to 2 GiB of RAM ratio and are best for moderate to high web traffic workloads. Compute profiles are best for workloads with intensive CPU demands, such as high web traffic workloads, production batch processing, and front-end web servers.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers/pricing
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| cx2-2x4 | 2 | 4.0GB | 100GB | $71.28 / month |
| Family: VPC Instance Type: Memory mx2 |
Memory profiles offer a core to RAM ratio 1 vCPU to 8 GiB of RAM ratio and are best for memory caching and real-time analytics workloads. Memory profiles are best for memory intensive workloads, such as large caching workloads, intensive database applications, or in-memory analytics workloads.
Provider page for instance type:
https://www.ibm.com/cloud/virtual-servers/pricing
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