Compute prices, compared.
Cloud VMs, AI APIs and hardware, pulled from official sources and dated.
Cloud virtual machines
Compare VM compute and list prices
Start with a requirement: compare VMs with 32 GiB RAM for memory capacity, VMs under $10 per month for a base-compute budget, or Hetzner and DigitalOcean at matched memory sizes for a provider shortlist. Check storage, traffic and tax separately.
| Item | Value | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Oracle Cloud Infrastructure | $16.06 | VM.Standard.A2.Flex (1 OCPU, 4 GB) · 4 GiB · Oracle public price list; deployment region not specified |
| Vultr | $20.00 | vc2-2c-4gb · 4 GiB · Amsterdam (ams) |
| Akamai Connected Cloud | $24.00 | Linode 4GB · 4 GiB · Tokyo 2, JP |
| DigitalOcean | $24.00 | Basic (s-2vcpu-4gb) · 4 GiB · Amsterdam 3 |
| AWS | $24.53 | t4g.medium · 4 GiB · US West (Oregon) |
| Microsoft Azure | $29.78 | Standard_D2pls_v6 · 4 GiB · IN Central |
| Google Cloud | $43.75 | c2d-standard-2 · 8 GiB · asia-south1 |
Shared, dedicated and Arm instances mixed; not a performance comparison.
| Item | Value | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Hetzner Cloud | €5.99 | CX23 · 4 GiB · Falkenstein (FSN1) |
| UpCloud | €12.00 | STARTER-2xCPU-4GB · 4 GiB · Sydney #1 (au-syd1) |
| Exoscale | €34.06 | Standard Medium · 4 GiB · Exoscale public price list (all zones, per the pricing page) |
Excluding tax: Exoscale, Hetzner Cloud. Tax treatment not stated: UpCloud. Not like-for-like across groups.
Guides and providers
AI
API services and models you can run yourself
Of 19 models sold by more than one API host, 2 keep a listed input price gap of 2× or more even without the lowest host, and 6 with every host counted. See the price gaps.
| Category | Lowest value | Lowest-priced | Highest value | Items |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Amazon Bedrock | $0.035 | Nova Micro | $4 | 36 |
| DeepInfra | $0.037 | gpt-oss-120b | $2.85 | 17 |
| SiliconFlow | $0.04 | gpt-oss-20b | $2.70 | 27 |
| Fireworks AI | $0.05 | NVIDIA Nemotron 3.5 Lightning 30B A3B | $4.50 | 19 |
| Nebius Token Factory | $0.06 | Nemotron-3.5-Lightning | $3 | 18 |
| Anthropic | $0.10 | Claude Haiku 5.5 (≤100K tokens; availability unverified) | $10 | 8 |
| Baseten | $0.10 | GPT OSS 120B | $3 | 18 |
| $0.10 | Gemini 2.5 Flash-Lite (text/image/video) | $2 | 4 | |
| Mistral AI | $0.10 | Ministral 3 3B | $0.70 | 6 |
| OpenAI | $0.10 | GPT-6 Luna (short context; availability unverified) | $10 | 9 |
| OpenRouter | $0.10 | Meta: Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (routed listing) | $0.25 | 2 |
| StepFun | $0.10 | Step-3.5-Flash | $1 | 3 |
| Novita AI | $0.135 | Llama 3.3 70B Instruct (Serverless tier; availability unverified) | $1 | 2 |
| Xiaomi MiMo | $0.14 | mimo-v2.6-flash | $4.35 | 3 |
| Alibaba Cloud Model Studio | $0.15 | Qwen3.8-Flash (≤1M tokens) | $2 | 3 |
| MiniMax | $0.15 | MiniMax-M3.1-Flash | $0.30 | 2 |
| Z.ai | $0.15 | GLM-5.3-Flash | $1.40 | 4 |
| DeepSeek | $0.30 | DeepSeek V4.1 Flash 1017 | $1.32 | 2 |
| xAI | $1 | grok-build-0.1 (<200K tokens) | $2 | 8 |
| Moonshot AI | $2 | Kimi K3.1 Pro (availability unverified) | $4 | 3 |
7 other offers have non-USD, multimodal or ambiguous input rates and are listed on the AI page. Includes promotional or time-limited prices: GPT-5.6 Sol (OpenAI) until 2026-11-30; MiMo V2.6 Pro (DeepInfra) sale price (original input price USD 0.43 / 1M tokens), no end date shown; Gemini 3.8 Flash (Google) until 2026-12-31; GLM 5.2 (DeepInfra) sale price (original input price USD 0.75 / 1M tokens), no end date shown; GLM 5.3 (DeepInfra) sale price (original input price USD 0.9 / 1M tokens), no end date shown; DeepSeek V4.1 Flash (DeepInfra) sale price (original input price USD 0.2 / 1M tokens), no end date shown.