Unmanaged SSD Cloud 5 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB
Unmanaged Linux VPS
Price
$38.99/mo
$4.87 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 61% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 8 GB> 30% of offers
- vCPU
- 4 shared> 40% of offers
- Disk
- 150 GB SSD> 64% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 3 TB/mo
Standard monthly rate before tax · 1 IPv4 included
Value score
64/100
Percentile of RAM, vCPU, disk and bandwidth per dollar across the 522 tracked VPS plans. Higher = more machine for the money.
Regions · 3
- Seattle, US
- Dallas, US
- Amsterdam, NL
Data provenance
Hostwinds · Live web — plan JSON embedded in hostwinds.com/vps/unmanaged-linux (standard monthly rate)
Fetched 10 Sept 2026
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Where this sits in the market
At $38.99/mo, Unmanaged SSD Cloud 5 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB is cheaper than 61% of the 522 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 8 GB of RAM at $4.87/GB — 10% below the $5.43/GB market median. Its value score of 64/100 ranks it #189 among VPS plans, and it is the 5th cheapest of Hostwinds's 9 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen2.5-Coder 7B~2.1–4.2 tok/s
- Gemma 3 4B~3.7–7.4 tok/s
- Qwen3 4B~3.9–7.9 tok/s
- Phi-4-mini 3.8B~4.1–8.2 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 3B~4.9–9.9 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 1B~13–26 tok/s
- Gemma 3 1B~16–32 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 8 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 4 shared vCPU.