Published: 23 September 2026
Bucharest is the cheapest place we sell a virtual machine, and that is not a stripped-down tier — it is the same six KVM plans, the same hypervisor software, the same unmetered traffic and the same panel as Frankfurt. It is cheaper because Romanian floor space and Romanian transit are cheaper, and we pass that through instead of flattening every location to one price.
What a VPS costs in Bucharest
Romania carries no location premium on our hourly VPS plans, so the Bucharest price is the base price:
| Plan | RAM | vCPU | SSD | Per hour | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VPS I KVM | 2 GB | 1 | 20 GB | €0.0056 | €4.00 |
| VPS II KVM | 4 GB | 2 | 40 GB | €0.0083 | €6.00 |
| VPS III KVM | 8 GB | 2 | 60 GB | €0.0139 | €10.00 |
| VPS IV KVM | 16 GB | 4 | 80 GB | €0.0222 | €16.00 |
| VPS V KVM | 24 GB | 6 | 100 GB | €0.0417 | €30.00 |
| VPS VI KVM | 32 GB | 8 | 120 GB | €0.0806 | €58.00 |
Prices are euro before VAT, with no setup fee. The hourly rate is simply the monthly price divided by 720 hours, so thirty days of uptime costs the monthly figure and anything shorter costs proportionally less.
The gap to our other locations is real money at the top of the range. A 32 GB machine is €58.00 in Bucharest against €74.00 in Warsaw or Amsterdam and €78.00 in Frankfurt or Vienna — €240 a year of difference for hardware in the same class. We laid the full five-country grid out in our location pricing post.
Streaming plans in Bucharest
The 10 Gbps streaming line follows the same rule — Romania is the base, everywhere else adds a premium:
| Streaming plan | RAM | vCPU | Port | Per month in Bucharest |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| VPS I KVM Streaming | 2 GB | 1 | 10 Gbps | €9.99 |
| VPS II KVM Streaming | 4 GB | 2 | 10 Gbps | €18.99 |
| VPS III KVM Streaming | 8 GB | 4 | 10 Gbps | €34.99 |
| VPS IV KVM Streaming | 16 GB | 6 | 10 Gbps | €59.99 |
| VPS V KVM Streaming | 24 GB | 8 | 10 Gbps | €89.99 |
| VPS VI KVM Streaming | 32 GB | 12 | 10 Gbps | €139.99 |
A €9.99 origin on a 10 Gbps port is an unusual entry point, and it is the reason a lot of our RTMP and HLS origins sit in Romania rather than further west.
Who should actually pick Romania
Anyone serving Eastern and Southeastern Europe
Romania peers domestically at InterLAN and RoNIX, which keeps traffic to Romanian ISPs inside the country instead of tromboning through Frankfurt. From Bucharest the approximate round trips we publish on the Bucharest location page put Sofia at 15–18 ms, Vienna at 20–25 ms and Istanbul at 30–35 ms. For a Romanian, Moldovan, Bulgarian or Greek audience that is a different class of experience from a German origin.
Anything that gets attacked
Romania has one of the more aggressive DDoS-mitigation markets in Europe, with multi-terabit scrubbing capacity upstream. Game lobbies, busy forums and VoIP endpoints are the workloads that notice. If you are not sure what that protection does or does not cover, our explainer on how DDoS protection works is the honest version, and we wrote separately about the difference between always-on and on-demand mitigation.
Anything cost-led that still has to be in the EU
Romania is an EU member state, so a Bucharest server satisfies an EU-residency requirement the same way a German one does, at the lowest price on our grid. For a staging environment, a CI runner, a backup target or an internal tool, that combination is hard to argue with.
Where Bucharest is the wrong answer
We would rather lose the order than have you unhappy in month two:
- A Polish-majority audience belongs in Warsaw, not Bucharest — the two are 30–35 ms apart and Warsaw peers directly with the Polish ISPs.
- A transatlantic or global audience is usually better served from Frankfurt or Amsterdam, where the peering is deepest.
- A contractual requirement naming a specific country — some customers must be in Germany or Austria by policy. Pay the premium; it is small.
- Sub-10 ms to Vienna or Munich is a Vienna job. We brought Austria back online this week precisely for that.
What you get on the machine
Every plan is a full KVM virtual machine — its own kernel, its own boot, full root. Not a container sharing a host kernel, which is what the term "VPS" sometimes quietly means elsewhere. Our KVM explainer covers why that distinction matters, and we went deeper on the resource-contention side in the noisy-neighbour post.
From the panel you get power control, an in-browser console that works even when networking is broken, a reinstall button, and a root password reset. Twenty-six install images are on the order form: Debian 10 to 13, Ubuntu 18.04 to 26.04 LTS, Rocky 8 and 9, AlmaLinux 8 and 9, CentOS Stream 9 and 10, Fedora, openSUSE Leap, Oracle Linux 9, Arch, and FreeBSD 14.1, 14.2 and 15.0.
Hourly or monthly?
Hourly billing draws down prepaid account credit once per clock hour, at the top of the hour in UTC. It is the right cycle for anything with an end date. A 8 GB VPS III in Bucharest costs €0.0139 an hour, so a full working day of use is about €0.11 and a weekend is €0.67.
One thing to be clear about: powering the server off does not stop the charges. A stopped virtual machine still holds its RAM, disk and IP on a node, and it bills as normal. Deleting it is what stops the meter. If the machine is going to run continuously, move it to the monthly, quarterly or annual cycle — the annual price is 10% below twelve months at the base rate, so the 2 GB plan is €43.20 a year instead of €48.00.
Order in Bucharest
Open the hourly VPS page or the streaming VPS page, pick a size, and choose Romania in the location list. The price on the form updates as soon as you do, in your own currency, before you commit to anything. If you want to talk through whether Bucharest is right for your traffic, open a ticket — a real person reads it.