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Daily VPS: rent a server by the day

A day is 24 hours on the meter. Keep the server for a day, a weekend or a week, see the exact cost before you deploy, and delete it when you are done: billing stops there. Nothing is prepaid per day.

Deploy a server 1-day, 3-day and weekly prices
  • From $0.24/day
  • No contract
  • KVM
  • NVMe SSD
  • 1 IPv4 + IPv6

How many days?

1 day

$0.72

24 × $0.03/hour

On the meter
24 hours
Monthly cap
$15.00 per billing period, reached after 500 hours (20 days 20 hours)

Deploy Q4

Exact time

Daily VPS prices: 1 day, 3 days and 1 week

Every plan for one day, three days and one week. A day is 24 hours of the plan’s hourly price and a week 168 hours, so these totals are exactly what the days cost, with nothing prepaid and nothing to refund if you delete the server sooner.

Cost of each plan for 1 day, 3 days and 1 week
Plan 1 day 3 days 1 week Order
Quartz Q11 vCPU · 1 GB RAM · 25 GB NVMe $0.24 $0.72 $1.68 Deploy Quartz Q1
Quartz Q21 vCPU · 2 GB RAM · 50 GB NVMe $0.48 $1.44 $3.36 Deploy Quartz Q2
Quartz Q42 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 80 GB NVMe $0.72 $2.16 $5.04 Deploy Quartz Q4
Quartz Q84 vCPU · 8 GB RAM · 160 GB NVMe $1.20 $3.60 $8.40 Deploy Quartz Q8
Quartz Q168 vCPU · 16 GB RAM · 320 GB NVMe $2.16 $6.48 $15.12 Deploy Quartz Q16
Chrono C82 vCPU · 8 GB RAM · 100 GB NVMe $1.68 $5.04 $11.76 Deploy Chrono C8
Chrono C164 vCPU · 16 GB RAM · 200 GB NVMe $3.12 $9.36 $21.84 Deploy Chrono C16
Chrono C328 vCPU · 32 GB RAM · 400 GB NVMe $6.00 $18.00 $42.00 Deploy Chrono C32
Chrono C6416 vCPU · 64 GB RAM · 800 GB NVMe $11.52 $34.56 $80.64 Deploy Chrono C64

Prices are in US dollars only and exclude taxes; any VAT or sales tax is added on the invoice according to your country. Full specifications for every plan are on the pricing page.

When a daily VPS makes sense

Jobs that last longer than an afternoon but have a clear end, priced at today’s rates. Each card draws the days to scale on one billing period.

  • Workshop or classroom lab

    1 day

    $0.48Quartz Q2 · 24 × $0.02/hour

    One server per participant for a hands-on session, deleted when the room empties.

  • Data migration

    2 days

    $2.40Quartz Q8 · 48 × $0.05/hour

    A staging point on NVMe while a site or a database moves between hosts.

  • Trade-show demo

    3 days

    $2.16Quartz Q4 · 72 × $0.03/hour

    A demo environment nobody else touches, up for exactly the length of the event.

  • Long-weekend game server

    3 days

    $3.60Quartz Q8 · 72 × $0.05/hour

    Friday afternoon to Monday night for a group of friends, then gone.

  • Release soak test

    5 days

    $8.40Chrono C8 · 120 × $0.07/hour

    A release candidate under steady load on pinned vCPUs for a working week.

  • Travel VPN

    7 days

    $1.68Quartz Q1 · 168 × $0.01/hour

    Your own WireGuard endpoint for the length of a trip.

Temporary VPS without the cleanup headache

A short-term server is only cheap if it really goes away, and only safe if it leaves nothing behind. Work through this list before you delete one.

  1. Copy off the resultsLogs, database dumps, build artifacts, screenshots: rsync or scp them to a machine that stays.
  2. Keep the recipe, not the serverCommit the config files and setup commands to a repository, so the next temporary server is rebuilt from scratch instead of kept alive.
  3. Remove DNS records that point at itA record left pointing at a released IP address can be picked up by whoever is given that address next.
  4. Revoke the keys it heldDeploy keys, API tokens and SSH keys that lived on the server should be deleted or rotated where they were issued.
  5. Unhook it from CI and monitoringRemove the runner registration, uptime check or webhook, so nothing keeps calling a machine that no longer exists.
  6. Delete the server Do it in the client area. Stopping it is not enough; billing stops when the server is deleted (see when billing ends).

Daily vs hourly: which costs less?

Neither. A day is not a separate product with its own price: it is 24 hours on the same meter. On Quartz Q4 that is 24 × $0.03/hour = $0.72, whether you think of it as a day or as hours, and a server deleted after 30 hours costs 30 hours.

The only thing that lowers the bill is the monthly cap, the same one every hourly VPS has: on Quartz Q4, charges stop for the rest of the billing period after 500 hours (20 days 20 hours). The ruler shows where that falls.

  1. Per hour$0.03/hourEvery hour, powered on or off, from deploy to delete
  2. Per day (24 hours)$0.72/day24 hours on the same meter, a week 168; nothing is prepaid
  3. Monthly cap$15.00/monthReached after 500 hours (20 days 20 hours); the rest of the billing period, one month from your order date, is free
One billing period of Quartz Q4, drawn to scale over 30 days: the meter charges $0.03/hour for every hour until the charges reach $15.00 after 500 hours, and the rest of that billing period costs nothing more.

Weekly VPS: 7-day rentals

A week is 168 hours on the meter; there is no weekly plan to keep track of. This is what one and two weeks cost on the smallest Quartz plans.

Cost of one and two weeks on the smallest Quartz plans
Plan Per day 1 week 2 weeks
Quartz Q11 vCPU · 1 GB RAM · 25 GB NVMe $0.24 $1.68168 × $0.01/hour $3.36336 × $0.01/hour
Quartz Q21 vCPU · 2 GB RAM · 50 GB NVMe $0.48 $3.36168 × $0.02/hour $6.72336 × $0.02/hour
Quartz Q42 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 80 GB NVMe $0.72 $5.04168 × $0.03/hour $10.08336 × $0.03/hour
Quartz Q84 vCPU · 8 GB RAM · 160 GB NVMe $1.20 $8.40168 × $0.05/hour $16.80336 × $0.05/hour

Stretch it further and the monthly cap takes over: Quartz Q4 stops charging after 500 hours (20 days 20 hours) in a billing period, at $15.00. A server that stays on is a monthly VPS.

How daily billing works

The rules that cover a server rented by the day, from the first top-up to the last hour. They are printed here exactly as they apply.

  • By the day

    There is no separate daily plan: renting by the day is hourly billing, so one day costs 24 times the hourly rate and one week 168 times, and the monthly cap still applies.

  • Billing unit

    Billing is by the hour: every hour a server exists is charged at the plan’s hourly rate. The price tapes and cost tables on this site count every started hour as a full hour, so they show the most a duration can cost; the cost calculator charges a partial hour to the nearest cent, as the bill does.

  • Whole cents

    Charges are deducted in whole cents: a full hour costs exactly the hourly rate, and a partial first or last hour is rounded to the nearest cent, never more than a full hour.

  • Monthly cap

    Every plan is capped at 500 hours per billing period: the monthly price is 500 times the hourly rate, and after 500 billed hours (about 20.8 days) the rest of the period is free, so a server left on all month pays exactly the monthly price and never more. A billing period is one month from your order date, not the calendar month, and the cap resets every period.

  • Stopped servers

    A stopped server is still billed, because its vCPU, memory, disk and IP addresses stay reserved for you; only deleting the server stops billing.

  • Initial credit

    Ordering a server takes an initial credit of $5 ($9 for Chrono C32, $16 for Chrono C64). It is prepaid credit, not a fee: the server’s hourly usage is deducted from it, and when it runs out you top up.

  • Account credit

    Your account runs on prepaid credit, with a minimum top-up of $5. Details: Account credit

  • Low balance

    When a server’s balance is down to about 24 hours of usage, you get a top-up invoice; at zero balance the server is suspended, and a suspended server is deleted 7 days later.

  • Refunds

    Usage is metered, so there are no refunds to claim: you pay only for the hours a server exists, never more than the monthly price in a billing period. Account credit is not paid out to your card or crypto wallet unless the law requires it. Details: Refunds

The billing rules with worked examples

Daily VPS FAQ

Answers use today’s prices. Every plan and every rule is on the pricing page.

Can I rent a VPS for just one day?

Yes. Deploy any plan, use it, and delete it when you are done. One day on Quartz Q4 costs $0.72. The smallest plan, Quartz Q1, costs $0.24.

How much does a VPS cost for 3 days?

Three days are 72 hours on the meter: Quartz Q1 $0.72 · Quartz Q2 $1.44 · Quartz Q4 $2.16 · Quartz Q8 $3.60. Every plan is in the price table.

I only needed the server for 5 hours. What do I pay?

Those 5 hours, nothing more: on Quartz Q4, 5 × $0.03/hour = $0.15. There is no minimum of a day; the rounding rule says how a part-used hour counts.

What happens after 24 hours?

Nothing changes. The server keeps running and the meter keeps counting hours until you delete it; there is no daily renewal to cancel and no new day to pay for in advance.

Can I keep a server for a week or longer?

Yes. Nothing limits how many days one server runs; the weekly table above shows what one and two weeks cost.

Past 500 hours (20 days 20 hours) in a billing period, Quartz Q4 stops charging: the monthly cap holds the period at $15.00.

Does stopping a server pause the billing?

No. Run Quartz Q4 for 6 hours, stop it for 10, then delete it, and 16 hours are charged: $0.48. Deleted straight after the work, it would have cost $0.18. When billing ends explains why.

From the blog

Servers that live for a weekend or a trip: setup, sizing and what the days cost.

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