VPS hosting with $0 egress fees.

Per-second billing, 10 TB transfer included, NVMe + ECC on every plan. Deploy in 90 seconds from Dallas, TX.

[ spec + price ]

head-to-head

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 transfer 10 TB incl. overage $0.0098/GB billing per second spin up →	$6 / mo Basic 1 GB 1 vCPU · 1 GB · 25 GB SSD transfer 1000 GB incl. overage $0.01/GB billing per second (60s min)	$20.49 / mo excl. IPv4 CPX11 (US) 2 vCPU · 2 GB · 40 GB SSD transfer 1 TB incl. overage $1.20/TB billing hourly, monthly cap (1 hr min)
medium 2× RAM on Metalhost medium vs DO/Hetzner.	$19 / mo 2 vCPU · 8 GB · 80 GB NVMe transfer 10 TB incl. overage $0.0098/GB billing per second spin up →	$24 / mo Basic 4 GB 2 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD transfer 4 TB incl. overage $0.01/GB billing per second (60s min)	$37.49 / mo excl. IPv4 CPX21 (US) 3 vCPU · 4 GB · 80 GB SSD transfer 2 TB incl. overage $1.20/TB billing hourly, monthly cap (1 hr min)
large 2× RAM on Metalhost large vs DO/Hetzner.	$38 / mo 4 vCPU · 16 GB · 160 GB NVMe transfer 10 TB incl. overage $0.0098/GB billing per second spin up →	$48 / mo Basic 8 GB 4 vCPU · 8 GB · 160 GB SSD transfer 5 TB incl. overage $0.01/GB billing per second (60s min)	$73.49 / mo excl. IPv4 CPX31 (US) 4 vCPU · 8 GB · 160 GB SSD transfer 3 TB incl. overage $1.20/TB billing hourly, monthly cap (1 hr min)

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

[ egress calc ]

calculator

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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metalhost

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included: 10 TB

digitalocean

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hetzner cloud

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Assumes a single VM at 24/7 usage. DO transfer pools per account; Hetzner US CPX prices exclude Primary IPv4.

platform datasheet

entry vm from $5/mo equiv · per second

transfer 10 TB included · $0 egress · overage $0.005/GB

provision ~90 s · dashboard + API (OpenAPI published)

virtualization KVM · NVMe storage · ECC memory · 10 Gbps network

cpu Intel Cascade Lake + AMD Milan

regions Dallas, TX (DC-1 live · DC-2 in buildout)

payment Credit card (Stripe) or USDC

Bare metal and RTX 4090 GPU instances are also available — see full pricing.

[ faq ]

questions

Straight answers.

Is there really no egress fee?

First 10 TB included on every plan; beyond that $0.005/GB. No tiers, no surprise line items.

How does per-second billing work?

Prepaid wallet; VMs bill per second while running. Spin up, test, destroy — pay for exactly what you used.

Where are your servers?

DC-1 in Dallas, TX is live; DC-2 is in buildout.

Spin up in ~90 seconds.

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