In the 12 months up to June 2020, VPSBenchmarks tested and reviewed 14 VPS hosting plans in the $0/month to $5/month price range. We evaluated them on their CPU power, network, disk speed, web performance and stability.
This Best VPS 2024 rankings are updated approximately every other month. Check out the list of current and past rankings in all price ranges.
This is the 2nd revision of the Best VPS under $5 ranking in 2020. These are the older revisions:
Each horizontal bar section in the chart below represents a grade value: A: [16-20], F: [0-3]. The total bar length is the Score.
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Plan | Price | Score | Web Perf | Raw CPU Power | Perf Stability | Disk IO Perf | Network Perf | |
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1 |
1GB 1core Tests started on Jan 22 2020 |
7.00€ ($7.70) | 60 | C | E | B | B | C |
2 |
Regular 1GB 1 core Tests started on Jun 20 2020 |
$5.00 | 41 | E | F | B | C | D |
3 |
VPS V1I1 Tests started on May 11 2020 |
2.79€ ($3.07) | 39 | E | F | C | C | D |
4 |
VPS Best Value Tests started on Nov 23 2019 |
$2.99 | 21 | E | F | C | F | F |
Plan | Price | Score | Web Perf | Raw CPU Power | Perf Stability | Disk IO Perf | Network Perf | |
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1 |
Basic Regular 1GB 1 core Tests started on Jan 06 2020 |
$6.00 | 49 | E | E | C | B | B |
2 |
Slice 1024 Tests started on Dec 07 2019 |
$3.50 | 47 | D | E | C | C | C |
3 |
Shared 1GB Tests started on Nov 17 2019 |
$5.00 | 46 | E | E | E | B | B |
4 |
DEV1-S Tests started on Jun 03 2020 |
11.07€ ($12.18) | 46 | E | C | D | D | C |
5 |
KVM Standard 1GB Tests started on Mar 07 2020 |
$6.00 | 44 | D | D | D | C | E |
6 |
CX11 Tests started on Feb 05 2020 |
3.79€ ($4.17) | 43 | E | E | C | D | B |
7 |
1GB 2cores Tests started on Dec 26 2019 |
$7.00 | 34 | D | F | D | E | D |
8 |
Cloud 1GB Tests started on Dec 13 2019 |
$5.00 | 28 | F | F | C | C | F |
9 |
Cloud 1GB 1 core Tests started on Apr 27 2020 |
$4.99 | 24 | F | F | D | E | D |
10 |
Starter 1GB 1 core Tests started on Mar 15 2020 |
$4.50 | 21 | E | E | E | D | F |