The best Cloud & VPS
Every option ranked — open-source, self-hostable, and commercial — by our transparent Sovereignty Score, with honest trade-offs so you choose what fits you, not us.
Cloud compute and VPS providers — where your servers run, what the bill really looks like, and who gives the most hardware per dollar.
L3Infrastructure — layer 3 of the AI stack- 1
Hetzner Cloud
Top pickCommercialTwo to four times the hardware per dollar, 20 TB of traffic included.
From €5.49/mo excl. IPv4 and VAT (CX23: 2 vCPU / 4 GB, 20 TB EU traffic) since the 15 June 2026 price rise; plans are often marked unavailable for new orders; US locations cost more and include less traffic · in our AWS (EC2 compute) comparison →
What is Hetzner Cloud? →70sovereignty - 2
Scaleway
CommercialThe EU-sovereign option — French cloud with ARM and bare-metal range.
Instances billed hourly from a few euros/mo; EU regions · in our AWS (EC2 compute) comparison →
What is Scaleway? →60sovereignty - 3
DigitalOcean
CommercialPartnerThe smoothest developer experience in the VPS world.
Droplets from $4–6/mo; 2 vCPU / 4 GB ≈ $24/mo · in our AWS (EC2 compute) comparison →
What is DigitalOcean? →55sovereignty - 4
Linode (Akamai)
CommercialThe veteran — two decades of straightforward VPS, now on Akamai's edge.
From $5/mo; 2 GB plan $12/mo · in our AWS (EC2 compute) comparison →
What is Linode (Akamai)? →55sovereignty - 5
Vultr
CommercialPartnerThe widest region map — 32 data centres including Asia and South America.
From ~$2.50–6/mo; hourly billing; GPU instances available · in our AWS (EC2 compute) comparison →
What is Vultr? →52sovereignty
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