Cheapest VPS with 1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM in the US
Cheapest VPS with 1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM in the US: the floor is not computed for 2026-10-28 (thin coverage: 2 verified providers with a qualifying US plan (minimum 3)). The providers that do list a qualifying plan are below, each verified.
List prices, not transacted prices. What that means.
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No number yet. Only 2 providers (vultr, hetzner) are read for this question so far, and the series needs at least 3 before it computes a floor. This page is not indexed until it has one.
US VPS floor (1 vCPU / 1 GB)
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By provider
- vultr USD 5.00
- hetzner USD 20.06
One line per provider, from that listing's own recorded changes; a price holds until the next change.
Cheapest qualifying plan per provider
At least 1 vCPU and 1 GB RAM, deployable in the US, excluding VAT. Sorted by price only.
| Provider | SKU | vCPU | RAM GB | Listed price | USD / month | VAT basis | Last verified | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| vultr | vps/vultr/vc2-1c-1gb | 1 | 1 | USD 5.00 | 5.00 | excl. VAT | 2026-10-27 23:18 UTC | source |
| hetzner | vps/hetzner/cpx11-us | 2 | 2 | EUR 17.99 | 20.06 | excl. VAT | 2026-10-27 12:45 UTC | source |
A floor is the lowest price among the providers whose price APIs and pages are read (sources), not the lowest in the market.
How this page is built
It reads the latest value of the US VPS floor (1 vCPU / 1 GB) index series and the per-provider detail behind it, so the page and the series always agree. Definition: The lowest monthly list price, in USD excluding VAT, for a VPS with at least 1 vCPU and at least 1 GB RAM, sold in a US datacentre, across the providers whose price APIs we read. Data: JSON · CSV · Atom feed.
Cite this
Free to reuse under CC BY 4.0 with this credit. The numbers are list prices, not transacted prices.
InfraRabbit (2026). Cheapest VPS with 1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM in the US [data as of 2026-10-28]. https://infrarabbit.com/prices/vps/cheapest-1vcpu-1gb-us (accessed 2026-10-28). List prices, not transacted prices. CC BY 4.0.
BibTeX
@misc{infrarabbit_vps_cheapest_1vcpu_1gb_us_2026,
author = {InfraRabbit},
title = {Cheapest VPS with 1 vCPU / 1 GB RAM in the US},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {\url{https://infrarabbit.com/prices/vps/cheapest-1vcpu-1gb-us}},
note = {Data as of 2026-10-28; accessed 2026-10-28; list prices, not transacted prices; CC BY 4.0}
}