Our cheap VPS USA option is a KVM server in Ashburn, Virginia, from €5.50 a month or €0.0077 an hour, excluding VAT: 1 vCPU, 2 GB of RAM, 20 GB of NVMe and unmetered traffic. Hourly billing stops at the monthly price, and on 9 November 2026 Ashburn was in stock for immediate deployment. Here is what each US plan costs, how that compares with the big cloud providers, and what a single US East location can and cannot do for you.
Cheap VPS USA prices in Ashburn
Ashburn uses the same six KVM plans as our European locations, plus a US location fee that is the same as in Frankfurt and Vienna. These are the live catalogue prices on 9 November 2026, in euros and excluding VAT.
| Plan | vCPU | RAM | NVMe | Port cap | Per hour | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VPS I | 1 | 2 GB | 20 GB | 100 Mbps | €0.0077 | €5.50 |
| VPS II | 2 | 4 GB | 40 GB | 140 Mbps | €0.0125 | €9 |
| VPS III | 2 | 8 GB | 60 GB | 180 Mbps | €0.0222 | €16 |
| VPS IV | 4 | 16 GB | 80 GB | 220 Mbps | €0.0361 | €26 |
| VPS V | 6 | 24 GB | 100 GB | 260 Mbps | €0.0611 | €44 |
| VPS VI | 8 | 32 GB | 120 GB | 300 Mbps | €0.1084 | €78 |
Every plan includes one IPv4 address, root access, unmetered traffic under the port cap and 100 Gbps of always on DDoS protection at layers 3 and 4. There is no setup fee. Monthly plans can also be paid quarterly, at three times the monthly price, or yearly, at twelve times the monthly price less 10%. Checkout can bill in US dollars and shows the exact total before you pay.
How hourly billing keeps it cheap
- Pay for the hours you use. A VPS I that runs for one full day costs about €0.18.
- Never more than the monthly price. Hourly charges stop once they reach the plan's monthly price, so a server you forget about costs at most €5.50 on VPS I.
- Destroy to stop the meter. A stopped server still reserves its CPU, memory and address and keeps billing. A destroyed one stops at once.
Hourly servers draw from prepaid account credit. The hourly VPS page explains the cap in detail.
How do our US prices compare with the big clouds?
Vultr and Akamai (Linode) charge the same list price in their US regions as in most of the world. These figures come from their public plan APIs in November 2026, in US dollars and excluding tax. Ours are in euros, so compare with your own exchange rate in mind.
| RAM | X-ZoneServers, Ashburn | Vultr Cloud Compute | Akamai Linode Shared |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 GB | €5.50, 20 GB, unmetered | $10, 55 GB, 2 TB transfer | $12, 50 GB, 2 TB transfer |
| 4 GB | €9, 40 GB, unmetered | $20, 80 GB, 3 TB transfer | $24, 80 GB, 4 TB transfer |
| 8 GB | €16, 60 GB, unmetered | $40, 160 GB, 4 TB transfer | $48, 160 GB, 5 TB transfer |
The trade is easy to read. For the same RAM we cost roughly half as much or less, depending on the plan and the exchange rate, and there is no transfer allowance to watch: our VPS I can move up to about 32.4 TB in a 30 day month at its 100 Mbps cap with no overage. They give you two to three times the disk, a choice of many US cities and, on Linode's 2 GB plan, a listed 2,000 Mbps of outbound bandwidth. If your server stores a lot of data or must sit on the West Coast, theirs may suit you better. If it mostly computes, serves an app or relays traffic from the East Coast, ours costs less.
Where in the USA is the server?
In Ashburn, Virginia, in Equinix DC6, which is our only US location. Ashburn is one of the largest data centre markets in the world and a common home for East Coast infrastructure. Our node there runs on AMD EPYC 9754 processors with enterprise NVMe storage. The Ashburn location page has the facility details.
Two honest limits. First, Ashburn has no IPv6 yet: every VPS there gets one IPv4 address, and more IPv4 costs €1.50 a month each. Second, we do not publish latency figures from Ashburn to US users, because routes from US networks into our node vary by provider. Before you commit, test the route from where your users are with our looking glass, or deploy an hourly VPS for an hour and ping it yourself. What we have measured is the link back to Europe: 96.6 ms to Frankfurt and 102.6 ms to Amsterdam on 12 October 2026.
Who is a cheap US VPS from us good for?
- European companies that need a US presence. One supplier, one bill and one client area for servers in the EU and the US.
- A US exit address. Testing geo targeted sites, reaching US only services, or a VPN exit in the United States. Our guide to a VPN with US and EU exits walks through the setup.
- A standby in a second continent. Production in Frankfurt, a warm standby in Ashburn, kept up to date by asynchronous replication across the 96.6 ms link.
- Short US jobs. Test runs, scrapers of your own sites, CI from a US address or a demo for a US client, billed by the hour and destroyed afterwards.
- Windows workloads. Ashburn is also the only place we sell Windows Server VPS, from €10.99 a month with your own licence, as the Windows VPS USA page explains. These are billed monthly, not hourly.
Who it is not for: anyone who needs a server in a specific US city other than Virginia, a West Coast audience, or a guaranteed port. For that last one, our dedicated servers are sold in the United States from €209 a month with an unmetered, unshared 1 Gbps port, though US stock varies, so ask us for a delivery date first. Our post on Ashburn dedicated servers covers that side.
How to test a US VPS before you commit
Because routes from US networks into Ashburn vary by provider, the cheapest insurance is a one hour test. It costs less than one cent on VPS I.
- Top up a little account credit and deploy a VPS I in the United States location, billed by the hour.
- From the places that matter to you, such as your office, a few customers or a server in another US cloud, run
ping -c 20andmtr -r -c 20against its address. Compare averages, not single packets. - Download a test file from the VPS to the same places to see real throughput under the plan's port cap.
- Repeat at a busy time of day, then destroy the server. Billing stops with it.
If the routes look good, deploy the plan you need for real. If one provider's users take a long path, you know before your customers do, and you have spent a few cents finding out.
Which US plan should you pick?
| Job | Plan | Per month |
|---|---|---|
| VPN exit, bot, monitoring probe, small site | VPS I | €5.50 |
| WordPress or a small app with its database | VPS II or III | €9 or €16 |
| Production app or a standby for a European primary | VPS IV | €26 |
| Containers, CI runners, larger databases | VPS V or VI | €44 or €78 |
Need more disk without moving up a plan? Extra storage costs €4 a month per 50 GB, up to 150 GB extra. VPS I with 50 GB more costs €9.50 a month in Ashburn.
Questions people ask about cheap VPS hosting in the USA
What is the cheapest VPS in the USA you offer?
VPS I in Ashburn, Virginia: 1 vCPU, 2 GB of RAM and 20 GB of NVMe for €5.50 a month or €0.0077 an hour, excluding VAT.
Can I pay in US dollars?
Yes. Our list prices are in euros, and checkout can bill in US dollars, showing the exact total before you pay.
Is traffic metered on a US VPS?
No. Traffic is unmetered on every plan, with no allowance and no per GB charge. The plan's port cap, from 100 to 300 Mbps, is the only limit.
Do you have VPS in other US cities?
No. Ashburn, Virginia is our only US location. Our other VPS locations are in Europe.
Can I run Windows on a cheap US VPS?
Not on the Linux KVM plans, which offer Linux distributions and FreeBSD. Windows Server runs on our separate Windows VPS line in Ashburn, from €10.99 a month, with your own licence key.
Deploy a VPS in the USA
Open the hourly VPS page, pick a plan, and choose United States as the location. Pay by the hour from account credit or by the month, and test the route from your users before you move anything important.