Cost per GB of RAM per month, ascending. Rule: cheapest plan with at least 4 GB RAM per provider. AWS EC2 t4g.small and Google e2-small are 2 GB instances; they are the smallest always-on paid EU instances for those providers in this dataset.
| Provider | Plan | RAM | vCPU | EUR / GB RAM / mo | Verified | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OVHcloud | VPS-1 2027 | 4 GB | 2 | 0.95 | pricing | |
| Hetzner | CX23 (Cost-Optimized) | 4 GB | 2 | 1.50 | pricing | |
| Scaleway | DEV1-L | 8 GB | 4 | 3.91 | pricing | |
| Vultr | Cloud Compute | 4 GB | 2 | 4.36 | pricing | |
| DigitalOcean | Basic Droplet | 4 GB | 2 | 5.23 | pricing | |
| Akamai Connected Cloud (Linode) | Linode 4 GB | 4 GB | 2 | 5.23 | pricing | |
| Google Cloud | Compute Engine e2-small | 2 GB | 2 | 5.86 | pricing | |
| Amazon Web Services (AWS) | Amazon EC2 t4g.small | 2 GB | 2 | 6.11 | pricing | |
| Microsoft Azure | Azure Virtual Machines B2ls v2 (Standard_B2ls_v2) | 4 GB | 2 | 7.70 | pricing |