Fasthosts vs HOSTKEY.

vps pricing compared · prices as of 16 Sept 2026

On today's data, HOSTKEY undercuts Fasthosts on memory pricing, with a median RAM price of $2.01/GB against $2.95/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 Fasthosts at $12.13/mo, checked 16 Sept 2026.

Fasthostsall plans →

• Cheapest · best value

  VPS 4 · 4 vCPU · 4 GB

  4 vCPU · 4 GB · 120 GB NVMe

  $12.13/moView at Fasthosts ↗

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 →

MetricFasthostsHOSTKEY

Plans tracked821

Cheapest plan$12.13/mo$2.84/mo

Median $/GB RAM$2.95/GB$2.01/GB

Avg value score82/10081/100

Locations11

Dedicated-vCPU plans03

NVMe share100%67%

Unmetered bandwidth100% of plans0% of plans

Cheapest plan at each RAM tier

≥ 2 GB RAM

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Fasthosts

VPS 4 · 4 vCPU · 4 GB

4 vCPU · 4 GB · 120 GB NVMe · $12.13/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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Fasthosts

VPS 4 · 4 vCPU · 4 GB

4 vCPU · 4 GB · 120 GB NVMe · $12.13/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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Fasthosts

RAM VPS 2 · 2 vCPU · 8 GB

2 vCPU · 8 GB · 120 GB NVMe · $22.92/mo

HOSTKEYwins

vm.v2-mini · 4 vCPU · 8 GB

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

Top value plans from each

Fasthosts

• VPS 4 · 4 vCPU · 4 GBvalue 88/100$12.13
• VPS 6 · 6 vCPU · 8 GBvalue 85/100$24.27
• RAM VPS 4 · 4 vCPU · 16 GBvalue 83/100$32.36
• RAM VPS 8 · 8 vCPU · 32 GBvalue 83/100$60.67
• VPS 8 · 8 vCPU · 16 GBvalue 81/100$51.24

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. Fasthosts data: Live web · VPS package cards on fasthosts.co.uk (data-price-exc-vat, standard not promo). HOSTKEY data: Live web · preconfigured VPS/VDS cards on hostkey.com (Amsterdam price list, net).