Gcore vs HOSTKEY.

vps pricing compared · prices as of 16 Sept 2026

On today's data, HOSTKEY undercuts Gcore on memory pricing, with a median RAM price of $2.01/GB against $4.89/GB. The cheapest way in is Gcore at $0.82/mo (g2s-shared-1-1-25 · 1 vCPU · 1 GB, disk billed separately). Gcore counters with broader reach: 8 locations vs 1.

At 4 GB of RAM the cheaper of the two is Gcore g1s-shared-2-4 at $3.51/mo, against HOSTKEY at $5.93/mo, checked 16 Sept 2026.

Gcoreall plans →

• Cheapest · best value

  g2s-shared-1-1-25 · 1 vCPU · 1 GB

  1 vCPU · 1 GB · no disk

  $0.82/moView at Gcore ↗

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 →

MetricGcoreHOSTKEY

Plans tracked9021

Cheapest plan$0.82/mo$2.84/mo

Median $/GB RAM$4.89/GB$2.01/GB

Avg value score47/10081/100

Locations81

Dedicated-vCPU plans763

NVMe share0%67%

Unmetered bandwidth0% of plans0% of plans

Cheapest plan at each RAM tier

≥ 2 GB RAM

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Gcorewins

g1s-shared-1-2 · 1 vCPU · 2 GB

1 vCPU · 2 GB · no disk · $1.75/mo

HOSTKEY

vm.nano · 2 vCPU · 2 GB

2 vCPU · 2 GB · 60 GB SSD · $3.55/mo

≥ 4 GB RAM

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Gcorewins

g1s-shared-2-4 · 2 vCPU · 4 GB

2 vCPU · 4 GB · no disk · $3.51/mo

HOSTKEY

vm.mini · 4 vCPU · 6 GB

4 vCPU · 6 GB · 120 GB SSD · $5.93/mo

≥ 8 GB RAM

full comparison →

Gcore

g1-standard-2-8 · 2 vCPU · 8 GB

2 vCPU · 8 GB · no disk · $25.57/mo

HOSTKEYwins

vm.v2-mini · 4 vCPU · 8 GB

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

Top value plans from each

Gcore

• g2s-shared-1-1-25 · 1 vCPU · 1 GBvalue 100/100$0.82
• g1s-shared-1-0.5 · 1 vCPU · 0.5 GBvalue 100/100$0.88
• g1s-shared-1-1 · 1 vCPU · 1 GBvalue 99/100$1.17
• g1s-shared-1-2 · 1 vCPU · 2 GBvalue 99/100$1.75
• g1s-shared-2-2 · 2 vCPU · 2 GBvalue 98/100$2.33

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. Gcore data: Live web · VM flavor table in the gcore.com/pricing/cloud payload (EUR excl. VAT, lowest-priced region). HOSTKEY data: Live web · preconfigured VPS/VDS cards on hostkey.com (Amsterdam price list, net).