Guides · Billing and costs
How our billing works, when hourly, daily or monthly costs less, and how VPS providers differ on the fine print. Worked examples use the current price list; comparisons cite sources and dates.
Our billing rules in full, each with worked numbers: prepaid and initial credit, hourly billing, the monthly cap, days and weeks on the meter, a low balance and when billing ends.
The break-even formula where hourly billing has no cap, what a monthly cap changes, the cap point for every HourlyVPS plan and which providers cap hourly charges.
A powered-off server is not a free server. Here is what 20 hourly VPS providers charge for a stopped server, why they charge it, and how to end the bill for good.
Per second, per minute or per started hour: how the billing unit changes what a short-lived server costs, with worked examples and the unit each of 20 providers uses.
Use these alongside the guides to check a number or price a duration yourself.
Enter any provider’s prices and see what a job costs by the hour, day or month, and where the break-even points fall.
The billing fine print of hourly VPS providers side by side, with a source for every cell.
Every plan with its hourly, daily and monthly price, and the billing rules in full.
The same billing questions applied to real providers and real jobs.
Pricing & billing · 15 min read
The typical small-plan price, the fees behind the headline and the hourly vs monthly math.
Pricing & billing · 14 min read
Billing units, monthly caps, stopped servers and IPv4 fees, from each provider’s own pages.
Use cases · 14 min read
Costs by group size, Realms and free hosts compared, RAM by player count and a Java 25 setup.