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Home » Pricing Analysis

Pricing Analysis

Cloud Spectator compares the pricing of 20+ different cloud IaaS industry leaders. We update this comparison on the third Wednesday of every other month. Below is a summary of our findings, which update on the same month. To view a full copy of the latest Cloud Spectator Cloud IaaS Industry Pricing Report, please purchase it here. Cloud Spectator congratulates all IaaS providers that have made it on our pricing analysis list, but we do not endorse any of these cloud providers. For more information on pricing, please contact us.


Some of the providers we look at with our pricing analysis include: Amazon, Rackspace, SoftLayer, Terremark, Windows, GoGrid, Hosting.com, CloudSigma, Zunicore, eApps, OpSource, Layered Tech, Savvis, Internap’s Voxel, ElasticHosts, IBM, Joyent, and Storm on Demand.


  • Small Server
  • Medium Server
  • Large Server
  • Extra Large Server

Least Expensive Small Cloud Server Providers

Server Minimum Requirements:

CPU Cores: 1

RAM: 2

Disk Space: 50

Hourly Least Expensive: CloudSigma $0.08 per hour

Monthly Least Expensive: eApps $51.98 per month

Yearly Least Expensive: CloudSigma $679.46 per year

Least Expensive Medium Cloud Server Providers

Server Minimum Requirements:

CPU Cores: 4

RAM: 8

Disk Space: 100

Hourly Least Expensive: 1&1 $0.27 per hour

Monthly Least Expensive: eApps $183.72 per month

Yearly Least Expensive: eApps $2,109.97 per year

Least Expensive Large Cloud Server Providers

Server Minimum Requirements:

CPU Cores: 6

RAM: 8

Disk Space: 200

Hourly Least Expensive: 1&1 $0.40 per hour

Monthly Least Expensive: eApps $214.61 per month

Yearly Least Expensive: Amazon EC2 $3,849.62 per year

Least Expensive Extra Large Cloud Server Providers

Server Minimum Requirements:

CPU Cores: 8

RAM: 16

Disk Space: 400

Hourly Least Expensive: CloudSigma $0.65 per hour

Monthly Least Expensive: eApps $447.34 per month

Yearly Least Expensive: Amazon EC2 $3,849.62 per year

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