Aruba Cloud vs HOSTKEY.

vps pricing compared · prices as of 16 Sept 2026

On today's data, Aruba Cloud undercuts HOSTKEY on memory pricing, with a median RAM price of $1.76/GB against $2.01/GB. The cheapest way in is HOSTKEY at $2.84/mo (vm.pico · 1 vCPU · 1 GB). Both providers cover a similar number of locations (1).

At 4 GB of RAM the cheaper of the two is HOSTKEY vm.mini at $5.93/mo, against Aruba Cloud at $7.26/mo, checked 16 Sept 2026.

Aruba Cloudall plans →

• Cheapest

  VPS O1I1 · 1 vCPU · 1 GB

  1 vCPU · 1 GB · 20 GB NVMe

  $2.87/moView at Aruba Cloud ↗
• Best value

  VPS O2A4 · 2 vCPU · 4 GB

  2 vCPU · 4 GB · 40 GB NVMe

  $7.26/moView at Aruba Cloud ↗

HOSTKEYall plans →

• Cheapest

  vm.pico · 1 vCPU · 1 GB

  1 vCPU · 1 GB · 40 GB SSD

  $2.84/moView at HOSTKEY ↗
• Best value

  vm.mini · 4 vCPU · 6 GB

  4 vCPU · 6 GB · 120 GB SSD

  $5.93/moView at HOSTKEY ↗

compare the two best-value plans side by side →

MetricAruba CloudHOSTKEY

Plans tracked621

Cheapest plan$2.87/mo$2.84/mo

Median $/GB RAM$1.76/GB$2.01/GB

Avg value score90/10081/100

Locations11

Dedicated-vCPU plans03

NVMe share100%67%

Unmetered bandwidth0% of plans0% of plans

Cheapest plan at each RAM tier

≥ 2 GB RAM

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Aruba Cloud

VPS O1I2 · 1 vCPU · 2 GB

1 vCPU · 2 GB · 40 GB NVMe · $5.18/mo

HOSTKEYwins

vm.nano · 2 vCPU · 2 GB

2 vCPU · 2 GB · 60 GB SSD · $3.55/mo

≥ 4 GB RAM

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Aruba Cloud

VPS O2A4 · 2 vCPU · 4 GB

2 vCPU · 4 GB · 40 GB NVMe · $7.26/mo

HOSTKEYwins

vm.mini · 4 vCPU · 6 GB

4 vCPU · 6 GB · 120 GB SSD · $5.93/mo

≥ 8 GB RAM

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Aruba Cloud

VPS O4A8 · 4 vCPU · 8 GB

4 vCPU · 8 GB · 80 GB NVMe · $13.60/mo

HOSTKEYwins

vm.v2-mini · 4 vCPU · 8 GB

4 vCPU · 8 GB · 120 GB NVMe · $7.58/mo

Top value plans from each

Aruba Cloud

• VPS O2A4 · 2 vCPU · 4 GBvalue 94/100$7.26
• VPS O8A16 · 8 vCPU · 16 GBvalue 92/100$22.95
• VPS O4A8 · 4 vCPU · 8 GBvalue 91/100$13.60
• VPS O16A32 · 16 vCPU · 32 GBvalue 91/100$44.89
• VPS O1I1 · 1 vCPU · 1 GBvalue 87/100$2.87

HOSTKEY

• vm.mini · 4 vCPU · 6 GBvalue 98/100$5.93
• vm.v2-mini · 4 vCPU · 8 GBvalue 97/100$7.58
• vm.medium · 6 vCPU · 12 GBvalue 96/100$11.70
• vm.nano · 2 vCPU · 2 GBvalue 95/100$3.55
• vm.v2-medium · 8 vCPU · 16 GBvalue 95/100$16.15

Prices exclude VAT, fetched 16 Sept 2026 from each provider's own API or public price page. Aruba Cloud data: Live web · Cloud VPS OpenStack price table on arubacloud.com (EUR + VAT, IPv4 rows). HOSTKEY data: Live web · preconfigured VPS/VDS cards on hostkey.com (Amsterdam price list, net).