Civo vs HOSTKEY.

vps pricing compared · prices as of 16 Sept 2026

On today's data, HOSTKEY undercuts Civo on memory pricing, with a median RAM price of $2.01/GB against $5.43/GB. The cheapest way in is HOSTKEY at $2.84/mo (vm.pico · 1 vCPU · 1 GB). Civo counters with broader reach: 5 locations vs 1.

At 4 GB of RAM the cheaper of the two is HOSTKEY vm.mini at $5.93/mo, against Civo at $21.73/mo, checked 16 Sept 2026.

Civoall plans →

• Cheapest · best value

  Standard xSmall · 1 vCPU · 1 GB

  1 vCPU · 1 GB · 25 GB NVMe

  $5.43/moView at Civo ↗

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 →

MetricCivoHOSTKEY

Plans tracked1121

Cheapest plan$5.43/mo$2.84/mo

Median $/GB RAM$5.43/GB$2.01/GB

Avg value score44/10081/100

Locations51

Dedicated-vCPU plans03

NVMe share100%67%

Unmetered bandwidth100% of plans0% of plans

Cheapest plan at each RAM tier

≥ 2 GB RAM

full comparison →

Civo

Standard Small · 1 vCPU · 2 GB

1 vCPU · 2 GB · 25 GB NVMe · $10.86/mo

HOSTKEYwins

vm.nano · 2 vCPU · 2 GB

2 vCPU · 2 GB · 60 GB SSD · $3.55/mo

≥ 4 GB RAM

full comparison →

Civo

Standard Medium · 2 vCPU · 4 GB

2 vCPU · 4 GB · 50 GB NVMe · $21.73/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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Civo

Standard Large · 4 vCPU · 8 GB

4 vCPU · 8 GB · 100 GB NVMe · $43.45/mo

HOSTKEYwins

vm.v2-mini · 4 vCPU · 8 GB

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

Top value plans from each

Civo

• Standard xSmall · 1 vCPU · 1 GBvalue 84/100$5.43
• Standard Small · 1 vCPU · 2 GBvalue 75/100$10.86
• Standard Medium · 2 vCPU · 4 GBvalue 68/100$21.73
• Standard Large · 4 vCPU · 8 GBvalue 59/100$43.45
• Standard Extra Large · 6 vCPU · 16 GBvalue 42/100$86.91

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. Civo data: Live web · compute instance tables on civo.com/pricing (USD, all regions). HOSTKEY data: Live web · preconfigured VPS/VDS cards on hostkey.com (Amsterdam price list, net).