Compute prices, compared.

Cloud VMs, AI APIs and hardware, pulled from official sources and dated.

  • 2,174VM prices
  • 11cloud providers
  • 219regions
  • 50AI API offers
  • 13AI providers
  • 9hardware items
Cheapest 2 vCPU VM · billed in USDOn-demand · 4–8 GiB · per month (vendor cap or 730 × hourly)
Oracle Cloud InfrastructureOracle Cloud Infrastructure: $16.06 · VM.Standard.A2.Flex (1 OCPU, 4 GB) · 4 GiB · Oracle public price list; deployment region not specified$16.06DigitalOceanDigitalOcean: $24.00 · Basic (s-2vcpu-4gb) · 4 GiB · Amsterdam 3$24.00AWSAWS: $24.53 · t4g.medium · 4 GiB · US East (N. Virginia)$24.53Akamai Connected CloudAkamai Connected Cloud: $36.00 · Dedicated 4GB · 4 GiB · Tokyo 2, JP$36.00Google CloudGoogle Cloud: $43.75 · c2d-standard-2 · 8 GiB · asia-south1$43.75VultrVultr: $43.80 · vx1-g-2c-8g · 8 GiB · Amsterdam (ams)$43.80
Cheapest 2 vCPU VM · billed in USD
ItemValueDetail
Oracle Cloud Infrastructure$16.06VM.Standard.A2.Flex (1 OCPU, 4 GB) · 4 GiB · Oracle public price list; deployment region not specified
DigitalOcean$24.00Basic (s-2vcpu-4gb) · 4 GiB · Amsterdam 3
AWS$24.53t4g.medium · 4 GiB · US East (N. Virginia)
Akamai Connected Cloud$36.00Dedicated 4GB · 4 GiB · Tokyo 2, JP
Google Cloud$43.75c2d-standard-2 · 8 GiB · asia-south1
Vultr$43.80vx1-g-2c-8g · 8 GiB · Amsterdam (ams)

Shared, dedicated and Arm instances mixed; not a performance comparison.

Cheapest 2 vCPU VM · billed in EUROn-demand · 4–8 GiB · per month (vendor cap or 730 × hourly) · not converted
Hetzner CloudHetzner Cloud: €5.99 · CX23 · 4 GiB · Falkenstein (FSN1)€5.99UpCloudUpCloud: €12.00 · STARTER-2xCPU-4GB · 4 GiB · Sydney #1 (au-syd1)€12.00ScalewayScaleway: €16.79 · BASIC2-A2C-4G · 4 GiB · Paris 1 (fr-par-1)€16.79
Cheapest 2 vCPU VM · billed in EUR
ItemValueDetail
Hetzner Cloud€5.99CX23 · 4 GiB · Falkenstein (FSN1)
UpCloud€12.00STARTER-2xCPU-4GB · 4 GiB · Sydney #1 (au-syd1)
Scaleway€16.79BASIC2-A2C-4G · 4 GiB · Paris 1 (fr-par-1)

Excluding tax: Hetzner Cloud, Scaleway. Tax treatment not stated: UpCloud. Not like-for-like across groups.

AI API input pricesUSD per 1M input tokens · offers with one standard USD text rate · log scale
$0.1$1$10OpenRouterOpenRouter · Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (routed listing): $0.1OpenRouter · DeepSeek: DeepSeek V3.1 (routed listing): $0.25OpenRouter · MiniMax: MiniMax M2 (routed listing): $0.3StepFunStepFun · Step-3.5-Flash: $0.1StepFun · Step-3.7-Flash: $0.2StepFun · Step-5 Preview: $1Xiaomi MiMoXiaomi MiMo · mimo-v2.6-flash: $0.14Xiaomi MiMo · mimo-v2.6-pro: $0.43Xiaomi MiMo · mimo-v2.6-pro-ultraspeed: $4.35Z.aiZ.ai · GLM-5.3-Flash: $0.15Z.ai · GLM-5.3-FlashX: $0.37Z.ai · GLM-5.3: $1.4Z.ai · GLM-5.2: $1.4DeepSeekDeepSeek · DeepSeek V4.1 Flash: $0.3DeepSeek · DeepSeek V4 Pro 0813: $1.32MiniMaxMiniMax · MiniMax-M2.7: $0.3MiniMax · MiniMax-M2.7-highspeed: $0.6GoogleGoogle · Gemini 3.7 Flash: $0.75Moonshot AIMoonshot AI · Kimi K2.6: $0.95Moonshot AI · Kimi K2.7 Code: $0.95Moonshot AI · Kimi K3: $3AnthropicAnthropic · Claude Haiku 4.5: $1
AI API input prices
CategoryLowest valueLowest-pricedHighest valueItems
OpenRouter$0.1Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (routed listing)$0.33
StepFun$0.1Step-3.5-Flash$13
Xiaomi MiMo$0.14mimo-v2.6-flash$4.353
Z.ai$0.15GLM-5.3-Flash$1.44
DeepSeek$0.3DeepSeek V4.1 Flash$1.322
MiniMax$0.3MiniMax-M2.7$0.62
Google$0.75Gemini 3.7 Flash$0.751
Moonshot AI$0.95Kimi K2.6, Kimi K2.7 Code$33
Anthropic$1Claude Haiku 4.5$11

28 other offers have tiered, context-bracketed, multiple, non-standard-tier, multimodal or non-USD input rates and are listed on the AI page. Includes time-limited prices: Gemini 3.7 Flash (Google) until 2026-12-31.