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What does 1 TB of traffic a month cost? VPS vs cloud

Pick what you run and enter your monthly traffic. We work out a full monthly bill for every VPS and cloud plan: the traffic the plan includes, what you pay beyond that, and what object storage and a CDN would add. The cheapest complete setup comes first.

What are you running?

Server size

Images, downloads, video: files that are the same for everyone. Object storage or a CDN can send them instead of your server, so they don't use its traffic.

Where most visitors are
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Recommended

1 vCPU / 2 GB, 1 TB a month, visitors in North America: the cheapest nearby is Tencent Cloud Lighthouse Razor Speed 2 vCPU / 2 GB at $5.60/month. The same on AWS EC2 t4g.small costs $101, 18× as much.

CheapestFewest bills

$5.60/month

Measuring latency…

Server
Tencent Cloud Lighthouse Razor Speed 2 vCPU / 2 GB2 vCPU / 2 GB · shared CPU · North America · VirginiaUnmetered, 1 TB used
$5.60

  • Razor Speed: unmetered traffic at 200 Mbit/s.
Cheaper, but farther away

$4.50/month

Measuring latency…

Server
Tencent Cloud Lighthouse Starter 2 vCPU / 2 GB · 1 TB2 vCPU / 2 GB · shared CPU · Asia-Pacific · Singapore1 TB included, 1 TB used, no extra charge
$4.50

The data center is in Asia-Pacific, farther from your visitors, so pages load a little slower.

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How the cost grows with traffic

$1$10$100$1K$10K$100K10 GB100 GB1 TB10 TB100 TB1 PB
  • Tencent Cloud Lighthouse Razor Speed 2 vCPU / 2 GB
  • Tencent Cloud Lighthouse Starter 2 vCPU / 2 GB · 1 TB
  • AWS EC2 t4g.small
  • Above 1,013 GB a month, Tencent Cloud Lighthouse Razor Speed 2 vCPU / 2 GB is cheaper than Tencent Cloud Lighthouse Starter 2 vCPU / 2 GB · 1 TB
  • Above 170.2 TB a month, AWS EC2 t4g.small is cheaper than Tencent Cloud Lighthouse Starter 2 vCPU / 2 GB · 1 TB

The numbers behind this page

To send 1 TB a month, the cheapest server is Tencent Cloud Lighthouse Razor Speed 2 vCPU / 2 GB at $5.60; on AWS EC2 it's $101.

PlanRegionPer month
Tencent Cloud Lighthouse Starter 2 vCPU / 2 GB · 1 TBAsia-Pacific$4.50
Tencent Cloud Lighthouse Starter 2 vCPU / 2 GB · 1 TBAsia-Pacific$4.50
Tencent Cloud Lighthouse Starter 2 vCPU / 2 GB · 1 TBEurope$4.50
Tencent Cloud Lighthouse Razor Speed 2 vCPU / 2 GBNorth America$5.60
Hetzner CX23Europe$6.69
Hetzner CAX11Europe$7.25
Tencent Cloud Lighthouse Starter 2 vCPU / 2 GB · 1 TBAsia-Pacific$8.50
Alibaba Cloud SAS 1 vCPU / 2 GBNorth America$9.00
Alibaba Cloud SAS 1 vCPU / 2 GBAsia-Pacific$9.00
Alibaba Cloud SAS 1 vCPU / 2 GBAsia-Pacific$9.00
Alibaba Cloud SAS 1 vCPU / 2 GBAsia-Pacific$9.00
Alibaba Cloud SAS 1 vCPU / 2 GBEurope$9.00