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How this page ranks
One number, fixed before the prices were read: gigabytes of storage included in a plan, or bought as an attached volume together with the smallest server that can mount it, divided by the monthly list price in dollars. For providers with a plan ladder, the plan with the best ratio is shown (it is usually the largest under $50); for attached storage, a 1 TB configuration is priced. Term and introductory prices are shown with their conditions and the renewal ratio where it differs. Speed is not a factor, because no provider on this page publishes IOPS for these plans and this site measures nothing; the storage-type label is reported as printed. A second table lists the largest single disk on each ladder regardless of price.
Included storage per dollar
| Plan | What you get | Monthly | GB per dollar | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| InterServer Storage Cloud Compute | 1 slice: 1 core, 2 GB, 1 TB SATA, 2 TB transfer | $3 | 341 | Slices to 32 TB per its page; monthly, no term |
| BuyVM slice + block-storage slabs | Slice 1024 ($3.50) + four 256 GB slabs ($5) = 1 TB | $8.50 | 120 | Slabs $1.25 per 256 GB; stock-dependent; Las Vegas, New York |
| Kamatera configurable storage | Basic $4 (1 GB) + 1 TB at $0.05 per GB | $55.20 | 18.6 | Any size in the configurator; eight US cities |
| Hostinger KVM 8 | 8 vCPU, 32 GB, 400 GB NVMe, 32 TB | $25.99 | 15.4 | 24-month term; renews at $49.99 (8.0 GB per dollar) |
| Contabo Cloud VPS 4 | 4 vCPU, 8 GB, 100 GB, unlimited | $6.60 | 15.2 | Introductory price; setup fee on short terms |
| Contabo Cloud VPS 12 | 12 vCPU, 48 GB, 400 GB, unlimited | $30 | 13.3 | Introductory price |
| OVHcloud VPS-4 | 8 vCore, 24 GB, 200 GB, unlimited | $27.50 | 7.3 | $23.37 on 12 months |
| Vultr vc2-8c-32gb | 8 vCPU, 32 GB, 640 GB, 6 TB | $160 | 4.0 | Hourly; eight US regions |
| Linode 32GB | 8 vCPU, 32 GB, 640 GB, 16 TB | $192 | 3.3 | Hourly; ten US regions |
| DigitalOcean Storage-Optimized 16 GiB | 2 vCPU, 16 GiB, 300 GiB NVMe, 4,000 GiB | $131 | 2.3 | Per second; NYC, SFO and Premium-CPU metros |
| Hetzner CPX51 (US) | 16 vCPU, 32 GB, 360 GB NVMe, 1 TB | $279.49 | 1.3 | US price since June 15, 2026 |
Two things stand out. The three providers that sell storage on its own terms (InterServer's slices, BuyVM's slabs, Kamatera's per-GB) are an order of magnitude ahead of the plan ladders, because a ladder charges for the memory and vCPUs that come with the disk. And among the ladders, the two cheapest per gigabyte are the two with term or introductory conditions (Hostinger, Contabo); Hostinger's ratio halves at renewal, and Contabo's renewal price is on its checkout, per its review. The hourly clouds sell disk at $2 to $4 per dollar-gigabyte on these plans, which is the price of hourly billing, APIs and many regions rather than of storage.
The largest disk on each ladder
| Provider | Largest disk on a single VPS (any plan line, US region where stated) | Monthly | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| InterServer Storage Cloud Compute | 32 TB SATA (32 slices), per its page | $96 at $3 a slice | Storage page |
| DigitalOcean Storage-Optimized | 4,690 GiB NVMe (256 GiB, 32 vCPU) | $2,096 | Pricing page |
| Linode | 5,000 GB (Dedicated 256GB, 56 vCPU); largest shared plan 3,840 GB (Linode 192GB) | $2,304; $1,152 | Types API |
| Vultr | 5,760 GB in US regions (voc-s-24c-192gb-5760s-amd); the vx1 line lists up to 11,520 GB with no US region in the API; cheapest 1,600 GB is voc-m-8c-64gb-1600s-amd | $1,850; $5,356.74; $500 | Plans API |
| Contabo | 600 GB (Cloud VPS 18, 96 GB) | On its plan page | VPS page |
| Hostinger | 400 GB NVMe (KVM 8) | $25.99 (24-month) | VPS page |
| Hetzner (US) | 360 GB NVMe (CPX51) | $279.49 | Price API |
| OVHcloud | 200 GB (VPS-4) | $27.50 | US catalog API |
The Linode and Vultr ceilings are on their dedicated and optimized-cloud lines, which cost far more per gigabyte than the plans in the first table; the ratio table uses each provider's best-ratio plan, and this table its largest disk. Attached volumes raise these ceilings at most providers (Vultr, Linode and DigitalOcean all sell block storage; Kamatera adds storage per GB; BuyVM stacks slabs), and their per-GB prices are on product pages this version did not read except where quoted above. Dedicated servers with many drives are the next step up and are outside this page.
InterServer's storage slices, from its page
InterServer's storage cloud compute page, read on 2026-09-21, describes "Storage-optimized cloud compute with 1TB slices" and "1TB to 32TB storage slices": "Each storage VPS slice adds 1TB SATA storage, 2GB memory, 2TB transfer, and a predictable $3 monthly cost". The order table prints 1 slice at $3 a month with 1 core, 2 GB memory, 1 TB SATA and 2 TB transfer on a shared 10 Gbps port, and 2 slices at $6 with 2 TB SATA and 4 TB transfer, scaling linearly. The page (interserver.net/vps/storage.html) positions the line for "backups, archives, and high-volume file hosting when capacity matters more than raw application I/O", which is the right reading of "SATA": it is sold for capacity. The same slice rules as InterServer's Linux line apply (monthly billing, no refund, no advertised snapshots; see the review and the setup guide), and the three US locations are New York, Dallas and Los Angeles.
Attached storage: BuyVM slabs and Kamatera per-GB
BuyVM sells block-storage slabs at $1.25 per 256 GB, attached to one of its slices (Slice 1024 at $3.50 for 1 GB and 20 GB SSD is the smallest host), per its plan page as read for the review; four slabs make 1 TB for $5, so a 1 TB storage box is $8.50 a month, in Las Vegas or New York, subject to BuyVM's stock, which the review explains is often sold out. Kamatera's pricing page says "Additional storage is only $0.05 per GB per month", so a terabyte is $51.20 on top of any configuration ($4 for the smallest), in eight US cities, hourly or monthly. Both are block volumes rather than a large local disk, which matters for a database and not for a backup target.
SATA, SSD, NVMe: what the label tells you
The plans above carry three labels. "SATA" (InterServer's storage line) is the interface used for spinning disks and older flash; on a storage line it should be read as capacity-priced, and InterServer's own page says so. "SSD" (Contabo, OVHcloud, Vultr vc2, Linode, BuyVM's slices) is flash without a stated interface. "NVMe" (Hostinger, Hetzner, DigitalOcean's Storage-Optimized, Kamatera) is flash on PCI Express with a higher ceiling. None of the labels is a measurement: what a VPS gets depends on the host's array, the number of neighbours and any per-server cap, none of which these providers publish. For a backup target or a media library the label barely matters; for a database, it matters and is not enough, and the disk performance page has the fio procedure to measure the disk you actually bought.
Backups, media, file servers, databases
- Backups. The cheapest large disk in another provider and city: InterServer storage slices or a BuyVM slice with slabs. Encrypt at the source; test a restore.
- Media library, archive, file server. Same candidates, plus the transfer allowance: InterServer 2 TB per slice, BuyVM unmetered on its slices, Contabo and OVHcloud unlimited with a port cap.
- Docker host or build server with big images. A ladder plan with a fast disk: Hostinger KVM 8 (400 GB NVMe) or Contabo Cloud VPS 12 (400 GB).
- Database larger than memory. Not a storage plan at all; memory first (32 GB page), then a fast disk, measured with fio before committing.
What this page could not verify
- Block-storage prices at Vultr, Linode and DigitalOcean, and object-storage prices anywhere: product pages not read for this version.
- BuyVM slab maximum size per slice and current stock: on its order form.
- Contabo Cloud VPS 16 and 18 prices and its renewal price: on its plan page and checkout.
- Any IOPS, throughput or sustained-write figure: none published for these plans, none measured here.