Alternatives to Google Compute Engine

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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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Featured VPS provider with comparable plans. Shares 2 data-center countries.

Locations: Netherlands, United Kingdom

Enterprise cloud provider. Shares 5 data-center countries.

Locations: Italy, Czech Republic, France, Poland, Germany, United Kingdom

Featured VPS provider with comparable plans. Shares 1 data-center country.

Locations: 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

$2.33
$2.91

This is each provider's lowest current monthly VPS price, converted to USD. Bar lengths are relative to the highest entry price shown.

Comparable VPS plans

These plans are all in the same lower-price price band: each alternative plan must be within 30% below or 40% above the selected Google Compute Engine plan price. Prices are converted to USD for an easier comparison.

ProviderPlanMonthly priceCPUMemoryDiskData transfer
Google Compute Engine n1-standard-1 $27.670 13.75 GB20 GB 0
quicksrv.io UK-Game 32 $32.748 632.0 GB500 GB Unlimited
Google Compute Engine n1-standard-1 $27.670 13.75 GB20 GB 0
Aruba Cloud CS O2A4 $26.477 24.0 GB40 GB Unlimited
Google Compute Engine n1-standard-1 $27.670 13.75 GB20 GB 0
Nobull Networks P30 Performance VPS $24 26.0 GB75 GB 12000
Google Compute Engine n1-standard-1 $27.670 13.75 GB20 GB 0
GS WEBSERVICES ng-Cloud 8C 16G $24.640 816.0 GB160 GB Unlimited

Storage prices

Object and block storage prices for Google Compute Engine and its selected alternatives. Pricing details vary by product and region.

Object storage

ProviderProductPrice / GB / monthDetails
Aruba Cloud

This is the pay-per-use price.
API is S3 compatible.
Fixed size packages including storage and egress available at lower prices (as low as 0.011€/GB/month for the largest package).

0.021€ ($0.024) Egress: 0.050€ ($0.058) / GB
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Google Compute Engine Cloud Storage Standard

Object storage is called "Cloud Storage" at Google.
Nearline and Coldline storage are also available at lower prices and speeds.

Data transfer and operation fees are extra.

$0.023 Egress: $0.120 / GB
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Block storage

ProviderProductPrice / GB / monthDetails
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.

  • 6 IOPS per GiB
  • 0.48 MiB/s per GiB
$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.
You are charged per GiB per month. Additionally, you are billed for the following: Hyperdisk Balanced charge a monthly rate for the provisioned IOPS and provisioned throughput (in MBps) in excess of the baseline values of 3,000 IOPS and 140 MBps throughput.

$0.080 IOPS price: $0.005
IOPS allowance: 3000
Throughput price per MBps: $0.040
Throughput allowance MBps: 140 MBps

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Features and locations

Compare common VPS controls and extra cloud services before choosing a provider.

FeatureGoogle Compute Enginequicksrv.ioAruba CloudNobull NetworksGS WEBSERVICES
HeadquartersUSANetherlandsItalyUSAGermany
LocationsAfrica: 1
Asia: 15
Europe: 9
North America: 2
South America: 2
Oceania: 1
Europe: 2Europe: 6North America: 1Europe: 1
BackupsYesYesYesYesNo
Block storageYesNoYesNoNo
Object storageYesNoYesNoNo
Load balancerYesNoYesNoNo
DDoS protectionYesYesYesNoNo
Hourly BillingYesNoMixedNoNo
SSH Keys SetupYesYesYesYesNo
BackupsNoYesYesYesNo
FirewallNoNoNoNoNo
IPv6 supportYesNoYesNoNo
Total number of data centers422812

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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.

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