Is Kamatera's Load Balancer Medium the best deal?

Load Balancer · $25/mo

Better deals exist

Kamatera's Load Balancer Medium at $25/mo lacks published size details and carries multiple hidden costs (bandwidth overages, licensing surcharges, burstable CPU fees, managed services add-ons). Several providers offer more transparent, feature-rich load balancing at lower entry points with clearer SLAs and included capacity.

Load Balancer S

$6.94/mosave 72%

Includes 200GB transfer and 200 Mbps with defined throughput (250 conn/s, 10k req/s) at one-quarter Kamatera's price, with published 99.99% SLA.

Caveat: IPv4 addresses billed separately; APAC outbound traffic loses free-egress status after mid-2026.

LB11

$7.49/mosave 70%

Entry load balancer with up to 25 services, 10k connections, and TLS termination included; 20TB traffic pool in EU; 99.9% SLA.

Caveat: Prices exclude VAT; traffic overage rates vary by region (USA/Singapore as low as 0.5-1TB); recent 36-39% price increase in April 2026.

Load Balancers - Regional

$10/mosave 60%

Flat $10/mo regional load balancer with 100% network uptime SLA; simpler pricing model than Kamatera.

Caveat: Bandwidth overage rates vary by data center; Windows licensing not included in base price.

Managed Load Balancer (base)

$8.64/mosave 65%

Managed load balancer with 99.99% SLA; additional rules billed separately, allowing pay-as-you-grow scaling.

Caveat: Intro pricing traps on renewal (2-6x higher); outbound transfer tiered at $0.036/GB after 2TB free allowance; building-block pricing requires calculator.

CDN - 50 GB transfer

$2.5/mosave 90%

First year free, then $2.50/mo for CDN with 50GB transfer; lowest absolute cost if load balancing needs are light.

Caveat: Not a dedicated load balancer; data transfer overage varies by region ($0.09-$0.132/GB); 99.9% SLA only.

Before you switch

Kamatera's 'Medium' tier lacks published capacity specs (throughput, connections/sec, requests/sec) - verify actual limits match your workload before committing.
Kamatera's hidden costs (bandwidth overage $0.01/GB, licensing surcharges, burstable CPU $0.041/hr overage, managed services $50-150/server/mo) can quickly exceed $25/mo baseline.
OVHcloud and Hetzner include defined traffic pools (200GB and 20TB respectively) but APAC regions lose free egress after mid-2026; confirm your region.
Hetzner and IONOS have recent price increases (36-39% and renewal traps respectively); lock in multi-year terms if available to avoid future hikes.
Vultr and AWS Lightsail have region-dependent overage rates; calculate worst-case bandwidth costs for your deployment geography before switching.

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