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Cloud Provider Pricing Directory — All 10 Providers Compared (2026)

Every provider in the catalog, with its entry-level compute price, where it ranks, and the services it is actually branded on. Each page prices that provider's published list rates through the same engine as the live estimator — then compares the result with the other nine.

Providers

Amazon Web Services
Hyperscaler

Market leader with broad services and reserved instances.

Entry compute
$24.53/mo
Ranking
#5 of 10 on entry compute

Amazon EC2 · Amazon S3 · Amazon EKS

Microsoft Azure
Hyperscaler

Enterprise standard with Azure Hybrid Benefit and deep Windows integration.

Entry compute
$62.78/mo
Ranking
#10 of 10 on entry compute

Azure Virtual Machines · Azure Blob Storage · Azure AKS

Google Cloud Platform
Hyperscaler

Pioneer in Kubernetes, big data, custom machine types and sustained use discounts.

Entry compute
$48.91/mo
Ranking
#8 of 10 on entry compute

Google Compute Engine · Google Cloud Storage · Google Cloud GKE

Oracle Cloud Infrastructure
Challenger cloud

Enterprise-grade hyperscaler with the deepest free-tier egress allowance and Arm-based Ampere pricing.

Entry compute
$27.74/mo
Ranking
#6 of 10 on entry compute

OCI Compute · OCI Object Storage · OCI OKE

IBM Cloud
Challenger cloud

Hybrid-cloud leader with deep Red Hat OpenShift integration for regulated enterprises.

Entry compute
$53.87/mo
Ranking
#9 of 10 on entry compute

IBM Cloud Virtual Servers · IBM Cloud Object Storage · IBM Cloud Kubernetes Service

DigitalOcean
Developer cloud

Developer-first cloud with flat, predictable Droplet pricing and zero commitment complexity.

Entry compute
$24.02/mo
Ranking
#3 of 10 on entry compute

DigitalOcean Droplets · DigitalOcean Spaces · DigitalOcean Kubernetes (DOKS)

Alibaba Cloud
Challenger cloud

Asia-Pacific leader with full SQL Server support and the deepest reserved-instance discounts.

Entry compute
$20.88/mo
Ranking
#2 of 10 on entry compute

Alibaba Cloud ECS · Alibaba Cloud OSS · Alibaba Cloud ACK

Linode (Akamai)
Developer cloud

Akamai-backed developer cloud with simple pricing and the lowest bandwidth overage rates.

Entry compute
$24.02/mo
Ranking
#4 of 10 on entry compute

Linode Compute Instances · Linode Object Storage · Linode Kubernetes Engine (LKE)

OVHcloud
Developer cloud

EU-sovereign cloud offering unlimited free egress and transparent, no-surprise billing.

Entry compute
$41.61/mo
Ranking
#7 of 10 on entry compute

OVHcloud Public Cloud Instances · OVHcloud Object Storage · OVHcloud Managed Kubernetes

Vultr
Developer cloud

Independent cloud with 33 global regions, flat hourly pricing, and no long-term contracts.

Entry compute
$20.00/mo
Ranking
#1 of 10 on entry compute

Vultr Cloud Compute · Vultr Object Storage · Vultr Kubernetes Engine (VKE)

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