“Cloud hosting” here means hourly public-cloud VMs, not a shared-hosting rebrand. Think DigitalOcean Droplets, Linode, Vultr, Hetzner Cloud, UpCloud, Scaleway DEV1 — API, snapshots, a monthly cap on hourly billing.
That is the opposite of a 24-month Hostinger or Contabo teaser. Cloud is cheaper for a box you will delete in a week; long-term KVM can be cheaper for a box that never sleeps if you accept renewal math.
If you need a panel and WordPress in two clicks, use WordPress hosting. If you need root and an API, stay on this table or the VPS ranking.
Straight answers about ranking methodology, pricing and choosing the right plan.
Cloud usually means hourly billing, an API and snapshot/resize. Ordinary VPS often means a monthly KVM with a panel and a long contract. Specs can look identical; ops do not.
Yes: hourly CX/CPX/CCX, API, snapshots. It is thinner than AWS. It is a cloud VPS, not a managed WordPress host.
Hostinger KVM is a prepaid VPS with intro terms. It is in the VPS ranking. This cloud page is for hourly SKUs.
Included traffic is in the plan (1 TB on a $5 Linode, 20 TB on Hetzner CX in the EU). Overages differ. Filter traffic if you push backups and container pulls.