How much does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 5 cost?

$38.99 a month excl. VAT, which is $4.87 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Hostwinds's own site.

What do you get with Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 5?

4 shared vCPU, 8 GB of RAM, 150 GB SSD of disk and 3 TB of traffic a month.

Where does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 5 run?

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

How does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 5 compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 62% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 7% less than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 60/100 on hardware per dollar, #187 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 5.

Prices checked 31 Oct

Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 5 costs $38.99 a month for 4 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 150 GB SSD, cheaper than 62% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

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Price

Hostwinds

$38.99/mo

$4.87 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 62% of the 527 plans we track.

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Value

60/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #187 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

Unmanaged Linux VPSshared vCPU

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What you get

RAM: 8 GBmore than 31% of plans
vCPU: 4 sharedmore than 40% of plans
Disk: 150 GB SSDmore than 63% of plans
Traffic: 3 TB a month

3 locations

Standard monthly rate before tax · 1 IPv4 included

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How it scores

Value 60/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.51 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.

RAM, 8 GB: 8.0
vCPU, 4: 6.0
Disk, 150 GB SSD: 4.8
Traffic, 3 TB: 0.9
19.7 points for $38.99: 0.51 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 8 GB with room to spare, on its 4 shared vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Qwen2.5-Coder 7B, about 2.1–4.2 tok/s Gemma 3 4B, about 3.7–7.4 tok/s Qwen3 4B, about 3.9–7.9 tok/s Phi-4-mini 3.8B, about 4.1–8.2 tok/s Llama 3.2 3B, about 4.9–9.9 tok/s Llama 3.2 1B, about 13–26 tok/s Gemma 3 1B, about 16–32 tok/s

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Frequently asked

How much does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 5 cost?: $38.99 a month excl. VAT, which is $4.87 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Hostwinds's own site.
What do you get with Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 5?: 4 shared vCPU, 8 GB of RAM, 150 GB SSD of disk and 3 TB of traffic a month.
Where does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 5 run?: In 3 locations: Seattle, US, Dallas, US, Amsterdam, NL.
How does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 5 compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 62% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 7% less than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 60/100 on hardware per dollar, #187 of the 374 plans that include a disk.