Datacenter

Servers in a rack, sold by the IP with bandwidth to spare. The cheapest thing on this site by a mile, and the first thing a careful site blocks.

Across the 12 providers we track selling them, the range is $0.01 to $0.90 per GB on their cheapest comparable plans. Each figure comes from the provider's own pricing page and carries the date it was read, see the list above.

8 of the 12 we track will sell to you with an email address alone; the rest ask for identity documents. Neither is automatically better, some buyers need to avoid ID checks, and some read their absence as a warning sign about how the network was built.

Rayobyte, at $0.01 a gigabyte on its cheapest comparable plan, of the 12 providers we track selling this type. That figure came off Rayobyte's own pricing page and the list above carries the date it was read. Cheapest is not the same as suitable: the sign-up and payment rows matter as much.

Because the advertised rate is the bottom rung of the largest plan sold. Among these 19 providers the median rate on the smallest plan is $0.60 a gigabyte and on the largest $0.40 a gigabyte. A first purchase normally lands on the first of those, and the landing page normally quotes the second.

From the 12 providers listed on this page, each with the price it publishes and the date we read it. The order is set by price in the unit each one actually sells in. We declare no winner and run no benchmark yet, so the ordering is a price ordering and nothing more.