Alternatives to Google Compute Engine
These featured providers are the closest alternatives to Google Compute Engine, selected using provider category, data-center locations, entry prices and comparable VPS plans.
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Top alternatives to Google Compute Engine for Performance
Featured VPS provider with comparable plans. Shares 2 data-center countries.
Locations: Netherlands, United Kingdom
Featured VPS provider with comparable plans. Shares 1 data-center country.
Locations: United States
Featured VPS provider with comparable plans. Shares 5 data-center countries.
Locations: Estonia, France, Germany, Netherlands, Poland, Spain, Sweden, United States
Featured VPS provider with comparable plans. Shares 1 data-center country.
Locations: Germany
Price and performance at a glance
Performance is a price-weighted score (out of 100). Entry price is the lowest current monthly VPS price we track.
Price-weighted performance
The score averages the price-weighted scores of each provider's three most recent graded trials (or all available trials when fewer than three exist). A plan score combines web performance, raw CPU capacity, performance stability, disk I/O and network performance; lower plan prices improve the price-weighted score. 100 is best.
Entry monthly price
This is each provider's lowest current monthly VPS price, converted to USD. Bar lengths are relative to the highest entry price shown.
Storage prices
Object and block storage prices for Google Compute Engine and its selected alternatives. Pricing details vary by product and region.
Object storage
| Provider | Product | Price / GB / month | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Compute Engine |
Cloud Storage Standard
Object storage is called "Cloud Storage" at Google. Data transfer and operation fees are extra. |
$0.023 |
Egress: $0.120 / GB
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Block storage
| Provider | Product | Price / GB / month | Details |
|---|---|---|---|
| Google Compute Engine |
Balanced persistent disk
Persistent Disk volumes provide high-performance and redundant network storage.Each Persistent Disk volume is striped across hundreds of physical disks.Balanced Persistent Disks are priced by the amount of provisioned space per disk. For these disk types, I/O operations are included in the price for provisioned space.
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$0.110 |
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| Google Compute Engine |
Hyperdisk Balanced
Hyperdisk volumes are network storage for Compute Engine, with configurable performance and volumes that can be dynamically resized. |
$0.080 |
IOPS price:
$0.005 IOPS allowance: 3000 Throughput price per MBps: $0.040 Throughput allowance MBps: 140 MBps View provider pricing |
Features and locations
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| Feature | Google Compute Engine | quicksrv.io | Nobull Networks | TakeHost.Biz | GS WEBSERVICES |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Headquarters | USA | Netherlands | USA | Estonia | Germany |
| Locations | Africa: 1 Asia: 15 Europe: 9 North America: 2 South America: 2 Oceania: 1 | Europe: 2 | North America: 1 | Europe: 7 North America: 1 | Europe: 1 |
| Backups | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Block storage | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Object storage | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| Load balancer | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| DDoS protection | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No |
| Hourly Billing | Yes | No | No | No | No |
| SSH Keys Setup | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Backups | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Firewall | No | No | No | No | No |
| IPv6 support | Yes | No | No | Yes | No |
| Total Number of Datacenters | 42 | 2 | 1 | 7 | 2 |
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Price and performance by plan
Each dot is a plan used in the price-weighted performance chart above. Its vertical position is the average PW score from its contributing recent trials.