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What a small server costs, and what comes with it.

Cloud servers and self-hosted deployment panels for small teams, compared on monthly price, specs and included traffic.

3tools profiled
1self-hostable
27 Octprices read

DigitalOcean

Droplets · ProprietaryCloud

Virtual servers in US dollars from $4 a month, billed by the second up to a monthly cap, with a public IPv4 address included.

$4from, per month · Basic 512 MiB, billed monthly

Hetzner Cloud

ProprietaryCloud

Euro-priced virtual servers with large included traffic in EU regions, sold per month excluding VAT.

€6.49from, per month · CPX02 (EU), billed monthly

Coolify

Apache-2.0Cloud + self-host

An open-source, self-hostable panel for deploying apps, databases and services onto your own servers, with an optional paid cloud control plane.

$5from, per month · Cloud, billed monthly · or self-host, no licence fee

Lowest paid plan per month, before tax. These tools are not priced per seat, so the full comparison prices them at the usage a small business actually has.