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OVHcloud

the cheapest no-commitment 4 gb box here — once you read past the headline price.

$5.35/mo#price-sensitive-buyers-w#daily-backups-without-si

hetzner-class value with backups thrown in — held back by pricing footnotes and the total absence of hermes-specific anything.

the refreshed vps line is genuinely strong for this workload: 2 vcores, 4 gb and nvme storage for $5.35 month-to-month, with daily backups and anti-ddos included by default — things hetzner charges for or doesn't bundle.

the footnotes are why it isn't ranked higher. the advertised 'from $4.54' requires a year prepaid with auto-renewal. eu and us list prices differ materially rather than by exchange rate. and the 'unlimited traffic' on asia-pacific locations carries a monthly quota after which the port drops to 10 mbps.

the description above is ours, condensed from the ranking. pricing moves — check it on the vendor's own page before you rely on it.

pricing
$5.35/mo
our verdict

hetzner-class value with backups thrown in — held back by pricing footnotes and the total absence of hermes-specific anything.

we researched this category against vendors' own pricing pages and licence files. that is where this line comes from — not from the vendor, and not from anything they paid for.

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Scaleway

french cloud with cheap arm instances and a european data guarantee

#eu#arm

UpCloud

finnish vps host with per-hour billing and its own storage stack

#eu#vps

netcup

german vps provider with long-standing low fixed pricing

#eu#vps

DigitalOcean

we checked this$12/mo

the path nous research built itself — a marketplace droplet with hermes preinstalled and an openrouter deploy flow on top.

#anyone-who-wants-the-off#least-surprising-route-t#7-hermes-with-predictabl