Cheap VPS — 2026 ranking

Cheap VPS (under $5/month)

This page is a price filter, not a quality badge. Plans here cost at most 500 ₽/mo in the catalog (~$5 at the site FX). Typical matches: UpCloud Starter $3.50, Namecheap Spark $3.88, OVHcloud VPS-1 from $4.54, Linode Nanode $5, Vultr Regular $5.

Hetzner CX23 (€5.99), DigitalOcean Basic 1 GB ($6) and Hostinger KVM 1 ($6.49 intro) sit just above the cut — open the full VPS ranking for those.

A cheap VPS is enough for a bot, a staging box or a brochure site. It is a weak fit if you need NVMe IOPS, a 1 Gbps port, or 4 GB RAM. Always check whether the number is a 12–24 month teaser.