How much does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 7 cost?

$76.99 a month excl. VAT, which is $4.81 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Hostwinds's own site.

What do you get with Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 7?

6 shared vCPU, 16 GB of RAM, 300 GB SSD of disk and 5 TB of traffic a month.

Where does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 7 run?

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

How does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 7 compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 41% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 8% less than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 56/100 on hardware per dollar, #201 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 7.

Prices checked 31 Oct

Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 7 costs $76.99 a month for 6 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and 300 GB SSD, cheaper than 41% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

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Price

Hostwinds

$76.99/mo

$4.81 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 41% of the 527 plans we track.

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Value

56/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #201 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

Unmanaged Linux VPSshared vCPU

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What you get

RAM: 16 GBmore than 51% of plans
vCPU: 6 sharedmore than 64% of plans
Disk: 300 GB SSDmore than 77% of plans
Traffic: 5 TB a month

3 locations

Standard monthly rate before tax · 1 IPv4 included

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How it scores

Value 56/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.47 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.

RAM, 16 GB: 16.0
vCPU, 6: 9.0
Disk, 300 GB SSD: 9.6
Traffic, 5 TB: 1.5
36.1 points for $76.99: 0.47 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.

Or a whole server

At 16 GB a dedicated server is worth a look: the cores, disks and port are all yours, not shared. One with 4 to 7 cores starts at $21.67 a month over the first year, setup fee included. 171 servers from 6 providers. every server with 4 to 7 cores

Models it can run

The largest two per family that fit 16 GB with room to spare, on its 6 shared vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Qwen3 14B, about 1.6–3.2 tok/s DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B, about 1.6–3.2 tok/s Phi-4 14B, about 1.6–3.2 tok/s Mistral Nemo 12B, about 1.9–3.9 tok/s Gemma 3 12B, about 1.9–3.9 tok/s Qwen3 8B, about 2.9–5.8 tok/s DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B, about 2.9–5.8 tok/s Llama 3.1 8B, about 3–5.9 tok/s

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Frequently asked

How much does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 7 cost?: $76.99 a month excl. VAT, which is $4.81 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Hostwinds's own site.
What do you get with Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 7?: 6 shared vCPU, 16 GB of RAM, 300 GB SSD of disk and 5 TB of traffic a month.
Where does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 7 run?: In 3 locations: Seattle, US, Dallas, US, Amsterdam, NL.
How does Hostwinds Unmanaged SSD Cloud 7 compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 41% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 8% less than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 56/100 on hardware per dollar, #201 of the 374 plans that include a disk.