KVM VPS · month to month · Istanbul · New York soon
An always-on KVM server with an automatic monthly cap: it is metered by the hour, and once its charges in a billing period reach the plan’s monthly price, the rest of that period is free. No contract, nothing to prepay, nothing to switch.
All plans, shown by their monthly price: the most a server of that plan costs in a billing period. Quartz shares vCPU time and suits most always-on work; Chrono pins each vCPU for servers that stay busy.
| Plan | vCPU | RAM | NVMe | Traffic | Price | Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quartz Q11 Gbps port | 1 shared | 1 GB | 25 GB | 2 TB/monthIstanbul | $0.01/hour$0.24/day$5.00/month max | Deploy Quartz Q1 |
| Quartz Q21 Gbps port | 1 shared | 2 GB | 50 GB | 3 TB/monthIstanbul | $0.02/hour$0.48/day$10.00/month max | Deploy Quartz Q2 |
| Quartz Q41 Gbps port | 2 shared | 4 GB | 80 GB | 4 TB/monthIstanbul | $0.03/hour$0.72/day$15.00/month max | Deploy Quartz Q4 |
| Quartz Q81 Gbps port | 4 shared | 8 GB | 160 GB | 5 TB/monthIstanbul | $0.05/hour$1.20/day$25.00/month max | Deploy Quartz Q8 |
| Quartz Q161 Gbps port | 8 shared | 16 GB | 320 GB | 6 TB/monthIstanbul | $0.09/hour$2.16/day$45.00/month max | Deploy Quartz Q16 |
| Chrono C825 Gbps port | 2 dedicated | 8 GB | 100 GB | 6 TB/monthIstanbul | $0.07/hour$1.68/day$35.00/month max | Deploy Chrono C8 |
| Chrono C1625 Gbps port | 4 dedicated | 16 GB | 200 GB | 8 TB/monthIstanbul | $0.13/hour$3.12/day$65.00/month max | Deploy Chrono C16 |
| Chrono C3225 Gbps port | 8 dedicated | 32 GB | 400 GB | 10 TB/monthIstanbul | $0.25/hour$6.00/day$125.00/month max | Deploy Chrono C32 |
| Chrono C6425 Gbps port | 16 dedicated | 64 GB | 800 GB | 12 TB/monthIstanbul | $0.48/hour$11.52/day$240.00/month max | Deploy Chrono C64 |
A low monthly figure often comes with conditions in the small print. Here is how the usual conditions compare with the way a monthly server works here.
| Topic | Common in hosting | At HourlyVPS |
|---|---|---|
| Term | The advertised price needs a 12, 24 or 36-month prepay. | There is no prepaid monthly plan: leave a server on and its charges stop at the monthly price in each billing period (after 500 hours, about 20.8 days), with no contract and no annual term. |
| Price | An introductory rate, then a higher price at the first renewal. | One monthly price per plan, the one in the table above, and it is a ceiling, not a charge in advance. There is no introductory rate to expire. |
| Leaving early | The rest of the prepaid term is gone, or an early-termination fee applies. | 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 are in the refund and account credit policy. |
Starting points, not limits. Watch memory and CPU for a week, then move up or down a plan if the numbers say so.
| Workload | Start with | Why | Per month, at most |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discord or Telegram bot | Quartz Q11 vCPU · 1 GB RAM · 25 GB NVMe | One long-running process and a small database; it spends its day waiting on the network. | $5.00/month |
| WireGuard VPN for a household | Quartz Q11 vCPU · 1 GB RAM · 25 GB NVMe | Light on CPU and memory. Keep an eye on the plan’s monthly traffic allowance. | $5.00/month |
| Personal site or blog | Quartz Q21 vCPU · 2 GB RAM · 50 GB NVMe | Room for a web server, PHP and a small database, with page caching switched on. | $10.00/month |
| n8n or Node-RED automations | Quartz Q42 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 80 GB NVMe | The workflow engine, its database and a queue side by side, with memory to spare for bursts. | $15.00/month |
| AI agent with a headless browser | Quartz Q84 vCPU · 8 GB RAM · 160 GB NVMe | Browser automation is memory-hungry; 8 GB leaves headroom for the agent and the browser together. | $25.00/month |
| Database or build server that never idles | Chrono C82 vCPU · 8 GB RAM · 100 GB NVMe | Pinned vCPUs for sustained work, so a long query or compile is not sharing its CPU. | $35.00/month |
Plenty of always-on servers begin as an experiment. There is nothing to switch when the experiment stays: the server bills like any hourly VPS, hour by hour, and in each billing period its charges stop at the monthly price.
The table shows Quartz Q4 for one to four weeks and a month. Its charges reach $15.00 after 500 hours (20 days 20 hours); from there to the end of the billing period the server costs nothing more.
| Duration | Cost |
|---|---|
| 7 days168 hours | $5.04168 × $0.03/hour |
| 14 days336 hours | $10.08336 × $0.03/hour |
| 21 days504 hours | $15.00 capped504 × $0.03/hour = $15.12, capped at $15.00 |
| 28 days672 hours | $15.00 capped672 × $0.03/hour = $20.16, capped at $15.00 |
| 1 month720 hours | $15.00 capped1 × $15.00 monthly cap |
The monthly price is the price of the whole server: address, traffic and DDoS mitigation are in it. This is a full billing period of Quartz Q4, line by line, before tax.
IP addresses
Every server comes with one dedicated IPv4 address and IPv6, included in the plan price.
Traffic
Istanbul plans include the monthly traffic allowance listed for each plan, prorated for a server that exists for part of a billing period.
2 vCPU · 4 GB RAM · 80 GB NVMe
| Server, every hour of the month1 × $15.00 monthly cap | $15.00 |
|---|---|
| 1 dedicated IPv4 + IPv6 | included |
| TrafficIstanbul: 4 TB/month | included |
| DDoS mitigation, always onInline, 1.2 Tbps capacity | included |
| VAT or sales taxDepends on where you are | at checkout |
| Most it can cost, before tax | $15.00 |
The lowest monthly price here is $5.00/month, for Quartz Q1 (1 vCPU · 1 GB RAM · 25 GB NVMe). There is no struck-through price beside it, no countdown and no “first month only”.
A small plan is right for a bot, a VPN endpoint, a static site or a monitoring probe. It is the wrong choice for a stack of several containers, a database that wants its working set in memory, or anything that drives a headless browser.
For those jobs the honest answer is a bigger plan: Quartz Q2 at $10.00/month or Quartz Q4 at $15.00/month. Saving a few dollars on a server that runs out of memory is not a saving.
The 3 smallest plans, per month at most
Answers use today’s prices. Every plan and every rule is on the pricing page.
You pay for the 240 hours it existed: on Quartz Q4, 240 × $0.03/hour = $7.20. Billing stops when it is deleted, and there is no cancellation fee (see the month-to-month table above).
From the day you order. A billing period is one month from your order date, not the calendar month, and the cap starts again in each one. Within a period, the charges for a server stop once they reach its monthly price; on Quartz Q4 that is $15.00, reached after 500 hours (20 days 20 hours), so a server left on all month pays exactly that. A server that exists for part of a period simply pays for its hours, up to the same cap.
No. There is no annual plan and no discount for paying ahead, and nothing is prepaid. On Quartz Q4 a year costs at most 12 × $15.00/month = $180.00, billed period by period, so you can stop whenever the server is no longer needed.
Servers run in Istanbul today; New York is coming soon and cannot be ordered yet. All locations
2 TB to 12 TB a month, depending on the plan; the plan table lists each one. The traffic rule itself is printed under What a month really costs.
Your account runs on prepaid credit, with a minimum top-up of $5. Ordering a server takes an initial credit ($5 for Quartz Q1 to Chrono C16, $9 for Chrono C32 and $16 for Chrono C64): prepaid credit that pays for its hours, not a fee. You can pay and top up your credit by card or cryptocurrency.
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Quartz Q4 $15.00/month max
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