HostwindsUnmanaged SSD Cloud 5 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB
Unmanaged Linux VPS
Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 5 costs $38.99/mo for 4 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 150 GB SSD, cheaper than 61% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$38.99/mo
$4.87 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 61% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 8 GB> 31% of offers
- vCPU
- 4 shared> 41% of offers
- Disk
- 150 GB SSD> 64% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 3 TB/mo
Standard monthly rate before tax · 1 IPv4 included
Value score
61/100
- RAM · 8 GB
- 8.0
- vCPU · 4
- 6.0
- Disk · 150 GB SSD
- 4.8
- Traffic · 3 TB
- 0.9
- 19.7 points ÷ $38.99
- 0.51 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 0.51 points per dollar against the 524 tracked VPS plans, whose median is 0.43. A higher score means more machine for the money.
Regions · 3
Data provenance
Hostwinds · Live web · plan JSON embedded in hostwinds.com/vps/unmanaged-linux (standard monthly rate)
Fetched 16 Sept 2026
Prices exclude VAT. Always confirm on the provider's site.
Where this sits in the market
At $38.99/mo, Unmanaged SSD Cloud 5 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB is cheaper than 61% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 8 GB of RAM at $4.87/GB, 10% below the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 61/100 ranks it #185 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 5th cheapest of Hostwinds's 9 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen2.5-Coder 7B~2.1–4.2 tok/s
- Gemma 3 4B~3.7–7.4 tok/s
- Qwen3 4B~3.9–7.9 tok/s
- Phi-4-mini 3.8B~4.1–8.2 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 3B~4.9–9.9 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 1B~13–26 tok/s
- Gemma 3 1B~16–32 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 8 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 4 shared vCPU.
