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Standard Instances · $5.75/mo (512 MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 200 GB SSD)
Exoscale's Micro at $5.75/mo is competitively priced but several providers offer comparable or better specs at lower cost, particularly Scaleway (if you can still order it), IONOS, and Fly.io. However, most cheaper alternatives carry significant renewal-price traps or hidden costs that narrow the real savings.
1GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 10GB NVMe at $2/mo intro price is 65% cheaper than Exoscale with better storage and unlimited traffic up to 1 Gbit/s.
Caveat: Intro pricing is a 3-month or 1-year promotional rate; renewal pricing is 2-6x higher (likely $6-12/mo), and outbound data transfer beyond 2TB pooled is tiered at $0.036/GB.
512MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 10GB disk, 500GB transfer at $2.50/mo is 57% cheaper than Exoscale with more disk and bandwidth included.
Caveat: Bandwidth overage rates vary by data center; Windows licensing not included; no published SLA beyond network uptime.
Shared CPU at $2.02/mo is 65% cheaper and billed per-second, so you pay only for what you use; good for low-traffic or bursty workloads.
Caveat: Only 256MB RAM (half of Exoscale); prices vary by region; stopped machines still incur $0.15/GB/mo storage charge; no published platform SLA.
512MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 10GB SSD, 500GB transfer at $4/mo is 30% cheaper than Exoscale with stable pricing and 99.99% SLA.
Caveat: Bandwidth overages billed at $0.01/GB past 500GB; no hidden renewal traps but less storage than Exoscale's 200GB claim.
1GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 25GB SSD, 1000GB transfer at $5/mo is only 13% cheaper but offers more RAM and transfer with stable pricing and 99.99% SLA.
Caveat: Outbound bandwidth overages at $0.005/GB after allowance; backups are a separate add-on at roughly 20-25% of instance price.
Before you switch
| Vultr | Cloud Compute · Regular 1vCPU/0.5GB | $2.5/mo | 512 MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 10 GB | Visit |
| InMotion Hosting | Shared Hosting · Core | $2.99/mo | 512 MB RAM, 100 GB SSD | Visit |
| AWS Lightsail | Virtual Servers · GP 0.5GB (Linux, IPv6) | $3.5/mo | 512 MB RAM, 2 vCPU, 20 GB SSD | Visit |
| UpCloud | Cloud Servers - Starter · STARTER-1xCPU-1GB | $3.5/mo | 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 10 GB Standard SSD | Visit |
| Microsoft Azure | Virtual Machines · B1ls | $3.8/mo | 512 MB RAM, 1 vCPU | Visit |
| Namecheap | VPS Hosting · Spark | $3.88/mo | 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 20 GB SSD | Visit |
| DigitalOcean | Droplets · Basic 512MB | $4/mo | 512 MB RAM, 1 vCPU, 10 GB SSD | Visit |
| Kamatera | Cloud VMs · Type A base (Availability, 1 vCPU/1GB) | $4/mo | 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 20 GB NVMe SSD | Visit |
| Alibaba Cloud | Simple Application Server · economy-e-2c-0.5g | $4.55/mo | 512 MB RAM, 2 vCPU, 40 GB SSD | Visit |
| Liquid Web | VPS Hosting · Compute 1 | $5/mo | 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 30 GB SSD | Visit |
| Linode (Akamai) | Shared CPU Compute · Nanode 1 GB | $5/mo | 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 25 GB SSD | Visit |
| Civo | Compute Instances · xSmall | $5.43/mo | 1 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 25 GB NVMe | Visit |
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