HOSTKEYvm.v3-medium · 8 vCPU · 16 GB
VPS · shared vCPU
HOSTKEY vm.v3-medium costs $18.46/mo for 8 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and 160 GB NVMe, cheaper than 76% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$18.46/mo
billed €16/mo
$1.15 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 76% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 16 GB> 53% of offers
- vCPU
- 8 shared> 71% of offers
- Disk
- 160 GB NVMe> 66% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 3 TB/mo
Excl. VAT · Amsterdam price list (other locations priced separately) · 1 Gbit/s, 3 TB
Value score
93/100
- RAM · 16 GB
- 16.0
- vCPU · 8
- 12.0
- Disk · 160 GB NVMe
- 6.4
- Traffic · 3 TB
- 0.9
- 35.3 points ÷ $18.46
- 1.91 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 1.91 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 $18.46/mo, vm.v3-medium · 8 vCPU · 16 GB is cheaper than 76% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 16 GB of RAM at $1.15/GB, 79% below the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 93/100 ranks it #33 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 14th cheapest of HOSTKEY's 21 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen3 14B~2.1–4.3 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B~2.1–4.3 tok/s
- Phi-4 14B~2.2–4.3 tok/s
- Mistral Nemo 12B~2.6–5.2 tok/s
- Gemma 3 12B~2.6–5.2 tok/s
- Qwen3 8B~3.9–7.7 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B~3.9–7.7 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B~3.9–7.9 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 16 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 8 shared vCPU.
