Compare hosting costs across 6 major cloud providers. Enter your server requirements and get instant monthly cost estimates with detailed breakdowns.
Set your minimum server specifications and we will find the best matching instance from each provider.
Your Requirements
Want the reasoning behind these numbers? Read the full guide: How Much Does Cloud Hosting Cost in 2026?
The cloud hosting market is dominated by three hyperscalers: AWS, Microsoft Azure and Google Cloud. These offer the broadest range of services, regions, and managed offerings — but at premium prices. Alternative providers like DigitalOcean, Hetzner, and Linode offer VPS hosting at significantly lower costs, making them attractive for straightforward compute workloads.
The right choice depends on your specific needs. If you need managed Kubernetes, machine learning services, or global CDN — hyperscalers are the clear choice. If you need a reliable virtual server for an ERP system, web application, or database — budget providers can save you 50-80%.
Cloud pricing is notoriously complex. Beyond the instance cost, watch for: data transfer (outbound traffic charges, offset by each provider's free monthly allowance), storage IOPS (higher performance tiers cost more), public IPv4 addresses (AWS began charging for these in 2024), load balancers, managed databases (2-3x self-hosted), and monitoring/logging (CloudWatch, Stackdriver).
Budget-friendly providers like Hetzner and DigitalOcean typically include bandwidth and storage in the base price, making their total cost more predictable. This simplicity is valuable for budgeting, especially for small and medium businesses.
Not all vCPUs are equal. AWS t3 instances are burstable (shared CPU), while dedicated instances provide consistent performance. Hetzner dedicated servers offer bare-metal performance at cloud prices. For database workloads, NVMe storage can provide 10x the IOPS of standard SSDs at modest additional cost.
For ERP systems, consistent performance matters more than peak performance. Users notice when the system slows down during report generation or month-end processing. Choose instances with dedicated or high-baseline CPU allocation for production ERP deployments.
The same instance usually costs different amounts in different regions, and the spread varies by provider and by instance family — US regions tend to be the cheapest for the hyperscalers, with Europe, Asia and South America generally costing more. Hetzner, being European-based, offers its best prices in EU data centers. Check the provider's own regional price list for your region rather than assuming one region's rate applies everywhere.
Choose a region close to your primary users for lowest latency, but consider nearby regions if cost savings are significant. For internal ERP applications, 50ms extra latency from a different region is rarely noticeable to end users.
All major providers offer significant discounts for committed usage: AWS Reserved Instances and Savings Plans, Azure Reserved VM Instances, and GCP Committed Use Discounts (plus its automatic Sustained Use Discounts). The discount tiers change, so read the current terms for your instance family and term length instead of relying on a remembered percentage.
For production ERP workloads that run 24/7, committed pricing is almost always worthwhile. The calculator shows on-demand prices — apply your provider's current commitment discount to estimate the long-term cost. As a sense of scale: at a 30% discount, a $100/month server saves about $360/year, and a $500/month one about $1,800/year.
Our infrastructure team can recommend the optimal hosting setup for your ERP system, configure servers, and manage ongoing maintenance.