HOURLY BILLING
From €0.0056/hour
Hourly VPS.
Pay Only for What You Use
Deploy a KVM VPS in 60 seconds, pay by the hour, and destroy it whenever you're done. Billing is automatically capped at the monthly price — run it all month and you never pay more than the flat rate.
X-ZoneServers hourly VPS starts at €0.0056/hour (Nano: 2 GB RAM, 1 vCPU, 40 GB NVMe) with billing automatically capped at €4/month — all six KVM plans deploy in about 60 seconds across 12 EU and US datacenter locations, and destroying the server stops billing immediately.
€0.0056
Lowest hourly rate
60s
Deployment time
Transparent Hourly Metering
No hidden fees, no minimum commitment
Billing increment1 hour
Monthly cost capAutomatic
Minimum commitmentNone
Destroy serverAnytime
How Hourly VPS Billing Works
Pay-as-you-go cloud servers with a built-in price ceiling
Deploy in 60 Seconds
Pick a plan and a location, and your KVM VPS is online in about a minute. Full root access, NVMe storage, and your choice of Linux distribution from the first hour.
Pay by the Hour
Every hour your server exists is metered at a fixed hourly rate — from €0.0056/hr for the Nano plan. Your balance is only charged for the hours you actually keep the server.
Capped at the Monthly Price
Hourly charges stop accumulating once they reach the plan's flat monthly price. A server you keep 24/7 simply costs the monthly rate — hourly billing never costs more.
Hourly VPS Rates
Six KVM plans, one simple rate per hour — capped at the monthly price
Nano
Entry Level
€0.0056/hour
capped at €4.00/mo
2 GB RAM1 vCPU
40 GB NVMe SSD1 Gbps Network
Unmetered traffic✓ Included
Micro
Enhanced Performance
€0.0083/hour
capped at €6.00/mo
4 GB RAM2 vCPUs
80 GB NVMe SSD1 Gbps Network
Unmetered traffic✓ Included
Most Popular
Starter
Dual-Core Power
€0.0139/hour
capped at €10.00/mo
8 GB RAM2 vCPUs
120 GB NVMe SSD1 Gbps Network
Unmetered traffic✓ Included
Basic
Quad-Core Performance
€0.0222/hour
capped at €16.00/mo
16 GB RAM4 vCPUs
160 GB NVMe SSD1 Gbps Network
Unmetered traffic✓ Included
Pro
High Performance
€0.0417/hour
capped at €30.00/mo
24 GB RAM6 vCPUs
200 GB NVMe SSD1 Gbps Network
Unmetered traffic✓ Included
Business
Enterprise Grade
€0.0806/hour
capped at €58.00/mo
32 GB RAM8 vCPUs
300 GB NVMe SSD1 Gbps Network
Unmetered traffic✓ Included
What Hourly Billing Is Perfect For
Short-lived and bursty workloads where a monthly server would sit idle
CI Runners & Build Agents
Spin up clean build machines on demand, run the pipeline, destroy them when the job finishes. Pay cents instead of a full month.
Staging & Preview Environments
Give every branch or client demo its own short-lived environment without keeping servers running between reviews.
Batch Jobs & Data Processing
Rendering, imports, scraping runs, migrations — grab extra compute for a few hours and release it when the work is done.
Traffic Spikes & Experiments
Scale out for launches and seasonal peaks, or test a new stack for an afternoon. The monthly cap protects you if it runs long.
99.9%
Uptime SLA
<60s
Deployment Time
24/7
Support Available
Up to 1Gbps
Network Speed
Hourly vs Monthly Billing
| Aspect | Hourly | Monthly |
|---|---|---|
| Billing increment | Per hour, from €0.0056/hr | Flat monthly rate |
| Commitment | None — destroy anytime | Renews monthly |
| Maximum monthly cost | Capped at the monthly price | The monthly price |
| Best for | Short-lived, bursty, experimental workloads | Always-on production workloads |
Same hardware, same network, same locations — only the billing differs. You can keep an hourly server as long as you like.
How the hourly price cap is calculated
Hourly billing meters every hour your server exists at its fixed rate — the 2 GB Nano plan, for example, bills €0.0056 for each started hour. The cap is simply the plan's flat monthly price: once your accumulated hourly charges within a billing month reach it (€4 for Nano), metering stops and the rest of the month costs nothing.
In practice that means short-lived servers cost cents — a 6-hour CI runner on Nano bills about €0.03 — while a server you forget to destroy can never surprise you with more than the monthly rate. A stopped server still reserves its RAM, CPU and IP address, so it keeps billing; destroying it ends the meter immediately, and you can redeploy a fresh one in about 60 seconds whenever you need it again.
Hourly VPS FAQ
Everything about pay-as-you-go billing
How does hourly VPS billing work?
You pay a fixed rate for every hour your server exists — from €0.0056/hr on the Nano plan. Charges are metered continuously against your account balance, and there is no minimum commitment: keep a server for two hours, pay for two hours.
What happens if I keep the server all month?
Hourly charges are automatically capped at the plan's monthly price. Once the cap is reached, the rest of the month is free — running an hourly server 24/7 never costs more than the flat monthly rate.
Does a stopped server still cost money?
Yes. A stopped server still reserves its RAM, CPU, storage, and IP address, so it continues to bill hourly. To stop billing completely, destroy the server — you can always deploy a fresh one in about 60 seconds.
How fast can I deploy and destroy servers?
Deployment takes about 60 seconds; destruction is immediate. You can automate both through the client area, which makes hourly VPS practical for CI pipelines and scheduled batch workloads.
Which plans and locations support hourly billing?
All six KVM VPS plans — from 2 GB Nano to 32 GB Business — support hourly billing in every one of our 12 EU and US locations. The hardware is identical to monthly plans: NVMe storage and 1 Gbps unmetered networking.
Can I get a dedicated server with hourly billing?
Dedicated servers are billed monthly because each one is provisioned bare-metal for a single customer. If you need short-lived capacity, the 32 GB Business VPS on hourly billing is the closest equivalent — dedicated resources, pay-as-you-go.
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