HOSTKEYvm.medium · 6 vCPU · 12 GB
VPS · shared vCPU
HOSTKEY vm.medium costs $11.70/mo for 6 vCPU, 12 GB of RAM and 160 GB SSD, cheaper than 85% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$11.70/mo
billed €10.14/mo
$0.98 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 85% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 12 GB> 49% of offers
- vCPU
- 6 shared> 65% of offers
- Disk
- 160 GB SSD> 66% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 3 TB/mo
Excl. VAT · Amsterdam price list (other locations priced separately) · 1 Gbit/s, 3 TB
Value score
96/100
- RAM · 12 GB
- 12.0
- vCPU · 6
- 9.0
- Disk · 160 GB SSD
- 5.1
- Traffic · 3 TB
- 0.9
- 27.0 points ÷ $11.70
- 2.31 per $
1 point per GB of RAM, 1.5 per vCPU, 1 per 25 GB of disk up to 500 GB (SSD × 0.8, HDD × 0.4), and 0.3 per TB of traffic up to 20 TB.
The score ranks 2.31 points per dollar against the 524 tracked VPS plans, whose median is 0.43. A higher score means more machine for the money.
Regions · 1
Data provenance
HOSTKEY · Live web · preconfigured VPS/VDS cards on hostkey.com (Amsterdam price list, net)
Fetched 16 Sept 2026
Prices exclude VAT. Always confirm on the provider's site.
Where this sits in the market
At $11.70/mo, vm.medium · 6 vCPU · 12 GB is cheaper than 85% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 12 GB of RAM at $0.98/GB, 82% below the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 96/100 ranks it #16 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 10th cheapest of HOSTKEY's 21 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen3 8B~2.9–5.8 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B~2.9–5.8 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B~3–5.9 tok/s
- Ministral 8B~3–5.9 tok/s
- Qwen2.5-Coder 7B~3.1–6.2 tok/s
- Gemma 3 4B~5.5–11 tok/s
- Phi-4-mini 3.8B~6.2–12 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 3B~7.4–15 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 12 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 6 shared vCPU.
