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VPS benchmarks by category

Cross-provider VPS plan categories, like Shared CPU, Dedicated CPU, ARM, and High Memory.

Shared CPU

Plans where vCPUs share physical cores with other tenants. Cheapest per vCPU, with performance that can vary with neighbors.

275 plans, 31 runs

Dedicated CPU

Plans with vCPUs pinned to physical cores or threads that are not shared with other tenants.

135 plans, 14 runs

General Purpose

Dedicated CPU plans with more than 2 GB and less than 8 GB of RAM per vCPU. The balanced default for app servers and databases that don't lean hard on one resource.

44 plans, 7 runs

CPU Optimized

Dedicated CPU plans with 2 GB of RAM or less per vCPU. More cores per dollar for builds, encoding, and other compute-bound work.

48 plans, 6 runs

High Memory

Plans with at least 8 GB of RAM per vCPU.

56 plans, 1 run

Storage Optimized

Plans with at least 125 GB of local disk per vCPU, or spinning disks. Built for backups, archives, and big datasets.

17 plans, 0 runs

High Performance

Premium tiers that providers sell on faster CPUs or storage than their standard plans.

48 plans, 2 runs

ARM

arm64 plans, such as Ampere Altra based instances.

21 plans, 0 runs

NVMe Storage

Plans whose boot disk is advertised as NVMe.

139 plans, 16 runs