Pay for what you
actually use.
Every VM and bare-metal host is billed by the second. No subscriptions, no monthly minimum, no contact-sales gating. The monthly numbers below show what you'd pay running 24/7 — the actual bill scales down with anything less.
Pay for what you
actually use.
- + 1 vCPU
- + 1 GB ECC
- + 10 GB network NVMe
- + 10 TB transfer
- + IPv6 /64 (IPv4 +$2/mo)
- + 2 vCPU
- + 8 GB ECC
- + 80 GB network NVMe
- + 10 TB transfer
- + Snapshots (50% of NVMe rate)
- + MFA + audit log
- + 4 vCPU
- + 16 GB ECC
- + 160 GB network NVMe
- + 10 TB transfer
- + Snapshots (50% of NVMe rate)
- + MFA + audit log
- + Single-tenant host
- + ECC memory
- + Local NVMe + network NVMe
- + 50 Gbps host uplink
- + Console + rescue mode
- + Per-second billing
Same workloads. Different math.
Metalhost VMs include 10 TB transfer on every tier. Competitor figures are closest-match plans from published pricing — DO Basic Droplets and Hetzner Cloud CPX (US). Competitor pricing verified July 2026; Metalhost rates live at build.
| tier | metalhost | digitalocean | hetzner cloud |
|---|---|---|---|
| tiny | $4.25 / mo 1 vCPU · 1 GB · 10 GB NVMe
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$6 / mo Basic 1 GB 1 vCPU · 1 GB · 25 GB SSD
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$20.49 / mo excl. IPv4 CPX11 (US) 2 vCPU · 2 GB · 40 GB SSD
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| medium 2× RAM on Metalhost medium vs DO/Hetzner. | $19 / mo 2 vCPU · 8 GB · 80 GB NVMe
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$24 / mo Basic 4 GB 2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD
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$37.49 / mo excl. IPv4 CPX21 (US) 3 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD
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| large 2× RAM on Metalhost large vs DO/Hetzner. | $38 / mo 4 vCPU · 16 GB · 160 GB NVMe
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$48 / mo Basic 8 GB 4 vCPU · 8 GB · 160 GB SSD
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$73.49 / mo excl. IPv4 CPX31 (US) 4 vCPU · 8 GB · 160 GB SSD
|
Competitor pricing as published as of July 2026; Metalhost from live catalog at build. Hetzner figures are US CPX tiers (Ashburn/Hillsboro), excl. IPv4. US CPX included transfer is 1–5 TB by plan (CPX11 = 1 TB, CPX21 = 2 TB, CPX31 = 3 TB). Sources: DO droplets · DO bandwidth · Hetzner pricing · Hetzner plans · Hetzner traffic · Hetzner billing
What does your bandwidth bill look like?
Pick a tier and drag the slider to your monthly outbound transfer. We show compute + egress overage for all three — no signup required.
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Adjust the slider to compare.
Assumes a single VM at 24/7 usage. DO transfer pools per account; Hetzner US CPX prices exclude Primary IPv4.
Common questions, straight answers.
How does per-second billing work?
Every VM and bare-metal host is metered to the second from the moment it boots until it's destroyed. Run a VM for an hour and pay for an hour. Run it for 11 seconds during a CI job and pay for 11 seconds. No monthly minimum, no rounding up. The monthly numbers on the pricing page are just the equivalent if you ran the resource 24/7 for the month.
Can I pick my own vCPU / RAM / disk shape, or am I stuck with presets?
Either. The tiles above are presets sized for common workloads, but the dashboard lets you dial CPU class, vCPU, RAM, boot disk, GPU, and public IPv4 independently and see a live per-second quote as you tweak. Same per-unit prices for everyone (about $2.50/mo per vCPU on Intel Cascade Lake, $1.25/mo per GB RAM, $0.05/mo per GB NVMe, $2.00/mo per public IPv4; AMD Milan vCPU runs a little more) whether you pick a preset or go fully custom.
Do you have GPUs?
Yes — NVIDIA RTX 4090 via whole-card PCIe passthrough. You get a dedicated physical GPU, not a time-sliced fraction. Attach one or more per VM; the card's vCPU and RAM are reserved alongside it, so GPU VMs start at 4 vCPU / 8 GB. Billed per second at $0.51/GPU-hour (≈$370/mo) plus the vCPU and RAM you configure. The RTX 4090 is the first card in the catalog — more GPU models are on the roadmap.
Do you charge for egress / bandwidth out?
Bare-metal leases include unlimited bandwidth — no transfer cap and no egress fees. VMs include a 10 TB monthly transfer allowance (in and out). VM overages bill at $0.0098/GB, a fraction of what the hyperscalers charge. Use the comparison table and egress calculator below to see how we stack up against DigitalOcean and Hetzner Cloud.
Can I switch a VM to a bigger size without rebuilding?
Yes. Vertical resize hot-plugs vCPU and memory live where the guest supports it; otherwise it's a quick stop-edit-start. Either way, your disks, network attachments, public IPs, and snapshots come along untouched — no data migration needed.
How do I get started?
Create an account at app.metalhost.net, add a payment method, top up your wallet, and spin up a VM or bare-metal host from the dashboard. The docs walk through the full flow in under ten minutes.
Where are your data centers?
DC-1 (Dallas) is live; DC-2 is in buildout with a published expansion plan. New workloads run in DC-1 today.
Do you offer managed Kubernetes or container hosting?
Not as a product on this site directly. For container workloads we run a provider on the Akash Network — same Metalhost hardware, deploy by SDL spec, pay by credit card on the Akash console. See the 'Compute options' section on the home page.
Why two different cloud frontends?
Different workloads, different economics. VMs and bare metal on this site are right when you want familiar tooling, USD invoices, and direct customer support. Akash deploys are right when you want bid-based pricing or short-lived container workloads. The same Metalhost hardware powers both — pick the frontend that fits.