How much does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 4 cost?

$28.99 a month excl. VAT, which is $4.83 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Hostwinds's own site.

What do you get with Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 4?

2 shared vCPU, 6 GB of RAM, 100 GB SSD of disk and 2 TB of traffic a month.

Where does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 4 run?

In 3 locations: Seattle, US, Dallas, US, Amsterdam, NL.

How does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 4 compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 67% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 8% less than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 50/100 on hardware per dollar, #220 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 4.

Prices checked 31 Oct

Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 4 costs $28.99 a month for 2 vCPU, 6 GB of RAM and 100 GB SSD, cheaper than 67% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

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Price

Hostwinds

$28.99/mo

$4.83 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 67% of the 527 plans we track.

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Value

50/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #220 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

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What you get

RAM: 6 GBmore than 29% of plans
vCPU: 2 sharedmore than 14% of plans
Disk: 100 GB SSDmore than 55% of plans
Traffic: 2 TB a month

3 locations

Standard monthly rate before tax · 1 IPv4 included

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How it scores

Value 50/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.44 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.

RAM, 6 GB: 6.0
vCPU, 2: 3.0
Disk, 100 GB SSD: 3.2
Traffic, 2 TB: 0.6
12.8 points for $28.99: 0.44 a dollar

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.

Models it can run

The largest two per family that fit 6 GB with room to spare, on its 2 shared vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Phi-4-mini 3.8B, about 2.1–4.1 tok/s Llama 3.2 3B, about 2.5–4.9 tok/s Qwen3 1.7B, about 3.9–7.8 tok/s Llama 3.2 1B, about 6.4–13 tok/s Gemma 3 1B, about 7.9–16 tok/s Qwen3 0.6B, about 11–21 tok/s

Similar plans

Plans from other providers with about the same vCPU and RAM, cheapest first. Each percentage is against this plan's $28.99 a month.

Frequently asked

How much does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 4 cost?: $28.99 a month excl. VAT, which is $4.83 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Hostwinds's own site.
What do you get with Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 4?: 2 shared vCPU, 6 GB of RAM, 100 GB SSD of disk and 2 TB of traffic a month.
Where does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 4 run?: In 3 locations: Seattle, US, Dallas, US, Amsterdam, NL.
How does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 4 compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 67% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 8% less than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 50/100 on hardware per dollar, #220 of the 374 plans that include a disk.