LightNode Start.
Prices checked
LightNode Start costs $7.71 a month for 1 vCPU, 2 GB of RAM and 50 GB NVMe, cheaper than 90% of the 558 VPS plans we track, checked .
Price
LightNode
$3.86 per GB of RAM a month
Cheaper than 90% of the 558 plans we track.
Value for money
of 405 plans with a disk
Ranked by how much RAM, CPU, disk and traffic each dollar buys.
What you get
- RAM
- 2 GBmore than 5% of plans
- vCPU
- 1 sharedmore than 0% of plans
- Disk
- 50 GB NVMemore than 40% of plans
- Traffic
- 1 TB a month
32 locations
- Athens, GR
- Baghdad, IQ
- Bangkok, TH
- Buenos Aires, AR
- Dhaka, BD
- Doha, QA
- Dubai, AE
- Frankfurt, DE
- Hanoi, VN
- Ho Chi Minh City, VN
- Istanbul, TR
- Jakarta, ID
- Jeddah, SA
- Karachi, PK
- Kathmandu, NP
- Kuala Lumpur, MY
- Lima, PE
- London, GB
- Manama, BH
- Manila, PH
- Marseille, FR
- Mexico City, MX
- Muscat, OM
- Phnom Penh, KH
- Riyadh, SA
- Santiago, CL
- Sao Paulo, BR
- Seoul, KR
- Silicon Valley, US
- Sofia, BG
- Washington, US
- Yangon, MM
USD, the page's monthly equivalent of the hourly rate; the page states no tax · billed by the hour · LightNode, LLC publishes no country or address of registration
How it scores
Each dollar buys 0.75 points of hardware here, against a typical 0.44 across the 558 plans we track.
- RAM, 2 GB
- 2.0
- vCPU, 1
- 1.5
- Disk, 50 GB NVMe
- 2.0
- Traffic, 1 TB
- 0.3
- 5.8 points for $7.71
- 0.75 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.
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Frequently asked
- How much does LightNode Start cost?
- $7.71 a month excl. VAT, which is $3.86 for each GB of RAM. Checked 4 Nov 2026 on LightNode's own site.
- What do you get with LightNode Start?
- 1 shared vCPU, 2 GB of RAM, 50 GB NVMe of disk and 1 TB of traffic a month.
- Where does LightNode Start run?
- In 32 locations: Athens, GR, Baghdad, IQ, Bangkok, TH, Buenos Aires, AR, Dhaka, BD, Doha, QA, Dubai, AE, Frankfurt, DE, and more.
- How does LightNode Start compare with other VPS plans?
- It is cheaper than 90% of the 558 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 26% less than the $5.25 typical across them. For hardware per dollar it ranks #118 of the 405 plans that include a disk.