# Kuraberu

> Kuraberu compares one category per section, from prices its own robot fetches every day rather than from anybody's marketing. VPS at https://kuraberu.app/vps, AI models at https://kuraberu.app/ai, GPU cloud at https://kuraberu.app/gpu, App platforms at https://kuraberu.app/platforms. Every price comes from a provider's own API, public catalog or price page, never typed in by hand; every page says when its numbers were read and prints the same date in its structured data; nothing is ranked by a score nobody measured, and there are no affiliate links, so a ranking has nothing to gain from its own order.

## VPS hosting

524 VPS plans from 26 providers, fetched every day from each provider's own API or public price page and converted to US dollars a month with the European Central Bank's rates. Prices exclude VAT, a plan a provider shows as sold out never leads a list, and a provider whose last good fetch is more than three days old cannot hold a top spot; last refresh 29 Sept 2026.

### Hub pages
- [Every plan](https://kuraberu.app/vps/browse): all 524 plans, filtered and sorted in the browser.
- [Rankings](https://kuraberu.app/vps/best): 10 ranked answers, ten deep, with a reason on each row.
- [Use cases](https://kuraberu.app/vps/for): 8 workloads, each with its own minimums and picks.
- [Run AI models](https://kuraberu.app/vps/run): 33 open-weight models, the RAM each needs and the cheapest plan that fits.
- [Providers](https://kuraberu.app/vps/providers): a page per provider with its whole lineup and where it runs.
- [By country](https://kuraberu.app/vps/in): 16 countries with three providers or more, and Europe, Asia, North America as regions.
- [Alternatives](https://kuraberu.app/vps/alternatives): 6 providers, each plan matched to the closest plan elsewhere.
- [Compare providers](https://kuraberu.app/vps/vs): any two VPS providers compared on price, memory and reach.
- [Compare plans](https://kuraberu.app/vps/compare): two to four plans side by side, with permanent pages for the pairings people ask about.
- [Local hardware](https://kuraberu.app/vps/hardware): what a Mac mini or a GPU costs against renting.
- [Ask](https://kuraberu.app/vps/ask): describe what you host, where and for how much, or set the requirements by hand; three plans ranked on today's prices, with the reason for each.
- [Changes](https://kuraberu.app/vps/changes): every list price that moved in the last seven days, with RSS at /vps/changes/rss.xml.
- [Prices by month](https://kuraberu.app/vps/prices): one report per calendar month since September 2026, rewritten daily until the month ends and final after it.
- [VPS Prices, September 2026](https://kuraberu.app/vps/prices/2026-09): so far, prices checked 29 Sept 2026. Cheapest 4 GB plan $5.11/mo at OVHcloud, typical $22.47; 9 prices moved.
- [Data health](https://kuraberu.app/vps/status): every provider's last fetch and whether it succeeded.

### Rankings, with today's number one (29 Sept 2026)
- [Best cheap VPS plans](https://kuraberu.app/vps/best/cheap-vps): Scaleway STARDUST1-S at $0.50/mo.
- [Best VPS under $10/month](https://kuraberu.app/vps/best/vps-under-10): Scaleway STARDUST1-S at $0.50/mo.
- [Cheapest VPS with 4 GB RAM](https://kuraberu.app/vps/best/4gb-ram-vps): OVHcloud VPS-1 2027 at $5.11/mo.
- [Cheapest VPS with 8 GB RAM](https://kuraberu.app/vps/best/8gb-ram-vps): OVHcloud VPS-2 2027 at $9.66/mo.
- [Best value VPS overall](https://kuraberu.app/vps/best/best-value-vps): STRATO VPS S at $3.82/mo.
- [Best storage VPS (most disk per dollar)](https://kuraberu.app/vps/best/storage-vps): Cherry Servers Storage VPS 8 at $55.75/mo.
- [Best dedicated-CPU VPS](https://kuraberu.app/vps/best/dedicated-cpu-vps): Cherry Servers Cloud ARM VDS 4 at $33/mo.
- [Best VPS with unmetered bandwidth](https://kuraberu.app/vps/best/unmetered-bandwidth-vps): Scaleway STARDUST1-S at $0.50/mo.
- [Best NVMe VPS](https://kuraberu.app/vps/best/nvme-vps): STRATO VPS S at $3.82/mo.
- [Cheapest RAM: VPS ranked by $/GB](https://kuraberu.app/vps/best/vps-per-gb-ram): OVHcloud VPS-4 2027 at $26.73/mo.

## AI models

348 text models and 7,169 prices from 218 providers, read every day from public catalogs and compared on one number: three parts input to one part output, per million tokens, at the standard rate, with no cache discount, batch tier or promotion. Every price is measured against one list price per model, the lab's own wherever the lab sells it, and a price below that with nothing published to account for it is shown in full and not ranked; last refresh 28 Sept 2026.

### Hub pages
- [Every model](https://kuraberu.app/ai/models): every text model we track, filtered and sorted in the browser. 343 of them have a page of their own.
- [Providers](https://kuraberu.app/ai/providers): 100 pages, each saying what kind of company it is and whether its prices add up.
- [Rankings](https://kuraberu.app/ai/best): 8 ranked answers, ten deep, each stating the floor it ranks above.
- [Use cases](https://kuraberu.app/ai/for): 8 jobs, each priced in its own units, per 1,000 pages or replies rather than per million tokens.
- [Best AI models for general use](https://kuraberu.app/ai/for/general-use): Find an AI model for everyday questions, explanations and planning. Compare published benchmark results and the API providers selling each model.
- [Best AI models for writing](https://kuraberu.app/ai/for/writing): Compare AI models for drafting, editing, summarizing and translation, using language and instruction-following evidence alongside provider prices.
- [Best AI models for research](https://kuraberu.app/ai/for/research): Choose AI models for analyzing sources and reasoning through research questions. Compare published benchmark results and where each model is sold.
- [Best AI models for coding](https://kuraberu.app/ai/for/coding): Find AI models for code changes, debugging and repository work. Compare published coding results and API provider prices.
- [Best AI models for data analysis](https://kuraberu.app/ai/for/data-analysis): Compare AI models for extraction, transformation and interpreting data, with published benchmark results and the API providers selling each model.
- [Best AI models for automation](https://kuraberu.app/ai/for/automation): Find AI models with tool calling for automated workflows. Compare published benchmark results and the providers selling each model.
- [Ask](https://kuraberu.app/ai/ask): describe the work in a sentence, or set the task, difficulty, needs and budget by hand; models ranked on published measurements and today's prices, three picks and the rest that fit.
- [Methodology](https://kuraberu.app/ai/methodology): sources, exact model mapping, capability formula, task weights and limitations.
- [Changes](https://kuraberu.app/ai/changes): every price that moved in the last seven days, with RSS at /ai/changes/rss.xml.
- [Data health](https://kuraberu.app/ai/status): every source's last run and whether it succeeded.

### Rankings, with today's number one (28 Sept 2026)
- [Cheapest LLM API](https://kuraberu.app/ai/best/cheapest-llm-api): Llama 3.2 1B Instruct at Inference, $0.01 in and $0.01 out per million tokens.
- [Cheapest models with 128k context](https://kuraberu.app/ai/best/cheapest-128k-context): Llama 3.2 3B Instruct at Inference, $0.02 in and $0.02 out per million tokens.
- [Cheapest open-weight models](https://kuraberu.app/ai/best/cheapest-open-weight-models): Llama 3.2 1B Instruct at Inference, $0.01 in and $0.01 out per million tokens.
- [Cheapest models with tool calling](https://kuraberu.app/ai/best/cheapest-with-tool-calling): Mistral Nemo at Nous Portal, $0.02 in and $0.03 out per million tokens.
- [Cheapest models that read images](https://kuraberu.app/ai/best/cheapest-vision-models): Ling 3.0 Flash VL at OpenRouter, $0.02 in and $0.06 out per million tokens.
- [Cheapest reasoning models](https://kuraberu.app/ai/best/cheapest-reasoning-models): Mercury 2.5 at NanoGPT, $0.04 in and 0.4¢ out per million tokens.
- [Biggest savings on the maker's own price](https://kuraberu.app/ai/best/biggest-savings-vs-list): Qwen-VL OCR at Alibaba Cloud (China), $0.04 in and $0.07 out per million tokens.
- [Free tiers worth using](https://kuraberu.app/ai/best/free-tiers-worth-using): Kimi K3 at NanoGPT, $2 in and $0.20 out per million tokens.

### Image, video and speech
One price here is one stated job rather than a million tokens: one 1024 x 1024 image, one silent 5-second 720p clip, a million characters read aloud, an hour transcribed. A price that would need an assumption nobody has published to convert is listed with the reason it cannot be compared, and is not ranked.
- [AI image model prices](https://kuraberu.app/ai/images): 87 models, priced by what one stated job costs rather than by the token. Cheapest today: FLUX.1 [schnell] at DeepInfra, 0.05¢ per image.
- [AI video model prices](https://kuraberu.app/ai/video): 104 models, priced by what one stated job costs rather than by the token. Cheapest today: Pixverse 6 at Fal, $0.13 per 5-second clip.
- [AI speech model prices](https://kuraberu.app/ai/speech): 34 models, priced by what one stated job costs rather than by the token. Cheapest today: TTS-1 at Azure AI Foundry, $15 per 1M characters.
- [Cheapest AI image generation](https://kuraberu.app/ai/images/best/cheapest-ai-image-generation): FLUX.1 [schnell] at DeepInfra, 0.05¢ per image.
- [Cheapest AI video generation](https://kuraberu.app/ai/video/best/cheapest-ai-video-generation): Pixverse 6 at Fal, $0.13 per 5-second clip.
- [Cheapest text-to-speech API](https://kuraberu.app/ai/speech/best/cheapest-text-to-speech): TTS-1 at Azure AI Foundry, $15 per 1M characters.
- [Cheapest transcription API](https://kuraberu.app/ai/speech/best/cheapest-transcription): Scribe 1 at ElevenLabs, $0.22 per hour of audio.

### Open dataset
- [https://kuraberu.app/data/ai/v1/index.json](https://kuraberu.app/data/ai/v1/index.json): the whole dataset as static JSON under CC-BY-4.0, with every model, provider, price and the sources behind each one. One file per model at /data/ai/v1/models/<key>.json.

## GPU cloud

175 rentals from 10 providers over 32 GPU models, read every day from public price pages and keyless APIs, and compared on one number: the on-demand rate for a single GPU for one hour, so an eight-GPU node is compared at what one of its GPUs costs. Where a provider publishes an interruptible rate, spot or preemptible, it sits beside the on-demand one; reserved and committed rates are never indexed, because a price that needs a month's commitment is not a standard recurring rate. There is no quality or value score: the memory and the bandwidth come from the maker's own figures, and nothing here turns them into a benchmark. Median rental today is $1.99/GPU-hr; last refresh 28 Sept 2026.

### Hub pages
- [Browse](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/browse): every rental, filtered by board, memory, provider and kind in the browser.
- [GPU models](https://kuraberu.app/gpu): 17 boards rented by more than one provider have a page listing every provider's price for that board, cheapest first.
- [Providers](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/providers): 10 pages, each saying what kind of company it is, what it includes and what it charges.
- [Rankings](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/best): 6 ranked answers, ten deep, each stating the floor it ranks above.
- [Use cases](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/for): 4 jobs, each priced in its own unit and stating its assumptions once.
- [Compare](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/compare): two to four rentals side by side, with permanent pages for the pairings people ask about.
- [Ask](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/ask): describe the job, the board, how long and what you can spend, or set them by hand; three rentals ranked on today's rates, with the reason for each.
- [Changes](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/changes): every price that moved in the last seven days, with RSS at /gpu/changes/rss.xml.
- [Data health](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/status): every provider's last run and whether it succeeded.

### Rankings, with today's number one (28 Sept 2026)
- [Cheapest H100 rental](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/best/cheapest-h100): H100 PCIe · Community Cloud at RunPod, $1.99/GPU-hr.
- [Cheapest A100 rental](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/best/cheapest-a100): A100 PCIe · Community Cloud at RunPod, $1.19/GPU-hr.
- [Cheapest RTX and consumer GPU rental](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/best/cheapest-consumer-gpu): RTX A5000 · Community Cloud at RunPod, $0.16/GPU-hr.
- [Cheapest GPU memory by the gigabyte](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/best/cheapest-per-gb-vram): RTX A6000 · Community Cloud at RunPod, $0.33/GPU-hr.
- [Cheapest eight-GPU node](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/best/cheapest-8-gpu-node): 8V100.48V · 8x Tesla V100 16GB at Verda (DataCrunch), $0.19/GPU-hr.
- [Cheapest interruptible GPU rental](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/best/cheapest-spot-gpu): 1V100.6V · 1x Tesla V100 16GB at Verda (DataCrunch), 9.5¢/GPU-hr.

### GPU model pages
- [NVIDIA H100 SXM](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/h100-sxm): 7 providers, from $2.69/GPU-hr.
- [NVIDIA A100 SXM 80GB](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/a100-80gb-sxm): 6 providers, from $1.39/GPU-hr.
- [NVIDIA B200 SXM](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/b200): 6 providers, from $5.98/GPU-hr.
- [NVIDIA L40S](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/l40s): 5 providers, from $0.79/GPU-hr.
- [NVIDIA H200 SXM](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/h200-sxm): 5 providers, from $3.59/GPU-hr.
- [NVIDIA RTX A6000](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/rtx-a6000): 3 providers, from $0.33/GPU-hr.
- [NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/rtx-pro-6000-blackwell): 3 providers, from $1.69/GPU-hr.
- [NVIDIA GH200 Grace Hopper](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/gh200): 3 providers, from $1.99/GPU-hr.
- [NVIDIA B300 SXM](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/b300): 3 providers, from $6.94/GPU-hr.
- [NVIDIA V100 16GB](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/v100-16gb): 2 providers, from $0.19/GPU-hr.
- [NVIDIA L40](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/l40): 2 providers, from $0.69/GPU-hr.
- [NVIDIA Quadro RTX 6000](https://kuraberu.app/gpu/quadro-rtx-6000): 2 providers, from $0.69/GPU-hr.

## App platforms

103 plans from 9 platforms that run an app for you, read every day from public price pages and keyless APIs. One row is one thing you can buy, and there are two kinds: 89 of them are a runtime of a stated size by the month, and 14 are a subscription with the compute metered on top. The two are never ranked against each other, because a seat with an allowance and a gigabyte of memory are different purchases. What a plan meters on top of its price, the transfer, the build minutes, the members and the disk, is kept in a record of its own per platform and never folded into a monthly figure; a rate nobody publishes is printed as not published rather than as free. There is no value score: these rows differ in what the price includes, not only in size. Median paid instance today is $71.10/mo; 5 rows cost nothing; last refresh 29 Sept 2026.

### Hub pages
- [Browse](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/browse): every plan, filtered by platform, memory, kind, free tier and sleep behaviour in the browser.
- [Platforms](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/providers): 9 pages, each saying what kind of platform it is, what the price includes and what the invoice adds.
- [Rankings](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/best): 6 ranked answers, ten deep, each stating the floor it ranks above.
- [Use cases](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/for): 4 jobs, each stating its floor and its assumptions once.
- [Head-to-head](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/vs): 10 curated pairings, compared on every size and tier both sides sell.
- [Compare](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/compare): two to four plans side by side, with permanent pages for the pairings people ask about.
- [Ask](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/ask): describe the app, the size, the team and the budget, or set them by hand; three plans ranked on today's prices, sized instances and subscriptions kept apart.
- [Changes](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/changes): every price that moved in the last seven days, with RSS at /platforms/changes/rss.xml.
- [Prices by month](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/prices): one report per calendar month since September 2026, rewritten daily until the month ends and final after it.
- [App Platform Prices, September 2026](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/prices/2026-09): so far, prices checked 29 Sept 2026. 1 GB instance from $5.36/mo at Koyeb, typical $8.89; 5 free tiers, 0 prices moved.
- [Data health](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/status): every platform's last run and whether it succeeded.

### Rankings, with today's number one (29 Sept 2026)
- [Cheapest app platform](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/best/cheapest-app-platform): eMicro · 0.25 vCPU · 512 MB at Koyeb, $2.68/mo.
- [Cheapest 1 GB app instance](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/best/cheapest-1gb-instance): eSmall · 0.5 vCPU · 1 GB at Koyeb, $5.36/mo.
- [Cheapest memory on an app platform](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/best/cheapest-per-gb-ram): eMedium · 1 vCPU · 2 GB at Koyeb, $10.71/mo.
- [Cheapest instance that never sleeps](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/best/cheapest-never-sleeps): eNano · 0.1 vCPU · 256 MB at Koyeb, $1.61/mo.
- [Best free tier on an app platform](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/best/best-free-tier): Free web service at Render, free.
- [Cheapest team plan](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/best/cheapest-team-plan): Hobby at Railway, $5/mo.

### Platform pages
- [Koyeb](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/providers/koyeb): 6 prices, from $1.61/mo.
- [Fly.io](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/providers/fly): 47 prices, from $1.94/mo.
- [Heroku](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/providers/heroku): 8 prices, from $5/mo.
- [DigitalOcean App Platform](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/providers/digitalocean): 14 prices, from $5/mo.
- [Railway](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/providers/railway): 2 prices, from $5/mo.
- [Zeabur](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/providers/zeabur): 4 prices, from $5/mo, with a tier that costs nothing.
- [Render](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/providers/render): 17 prices, from $7/mo, with a tier that costs nothing.
- [Netlify](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/providers/netlify): 3 prices, from $9/mo, with a tier that costs nothing.
- [Vercel](https://kuraberu.app/platforms/providers/vercel): 2 prices, from $20/mo, with a tier that costs nothing.

## The data

- [Sitemap](https://kuraberu.app/sitemap.xml): every page, each with the date a price on it last changed.
- [Open dataset](https://kuraberu.app/data/ai/v1/index.json): the AI section in full, as static JSON under CC-BY-4.0.
- [About and method](https://kuraberu.app/about): how prices are read, who gets listed, how rankings are made and why there are no affiliate links.

Quote us with the date beside the number. A price read this morning is worth more than a price with no date on it, and it is the only claim we make.