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The most reversible end of the register: usage billed in arrears, cancellation from the account, no notice period and no remainder. An invoice arriving at the end of the month does not move a record out of this band — it is payment for days already used, not a commitment to days that will not be. It is the norm for cloud infrastructure and for platforms billing by usage, and it is what makes trying something cheap — the cost of a wrong choice is the days it ran, not the year it was booked for.

18 providers can be left within a day, listed alphabetically. Mostly GPU cloud, Virtual Private Servers and Platform as a Service, of 8 categories in all. 144 records do not record this field, and cannot appear here either way.

A

  • Alibaba Cloud

    Alibaba Group's cloud platform, selling virtual machines, containers, serverless functions and managed services.

  • Amazon Web Services

    Amazon Web Services is the largest cloud infrastructure provider, spanning 123 Availability Zones in 39 geographic Regions.

  • Azure

    Microsoft's hyperscale cloud — hundreds of separately metered infrastructure services, with App Service as the managed application layer above them.

C

  • Civo

    British Kubernetes-first cloud that charges for worker nodes only, with control planes included and data transfer unmetered.

  • cloudscale.ch

    Swiss infrastructure-as-a-service provider selling virtual servers, object storage and load balancers on server hardware it owns in Swiss data centers.

D

  • DigitalOcean

    DigitalOcean is a publicly listed cloud provider best known for Droplets, its VPS product, alongside managed databases, Kubernetes and an app platform.

E

  • Exoscale

    Exoscale is a Swiss infrastructure provider selling KVM instances, managed Kubernetes, object and block storage and managed databases from European zones.

F

  • Fly.io

    Fly.io runs applications as Firecracker microVMs on hardware it operates itself, deployed from a Dockerfile through the flyctl CLI and billed by usage.

  • fortrabbit

    Managed hosting platform for developers since 2012, runs on AWS capacity in Ireland and the US.

G

  • GleSYS

    GleSYS is a Swedish infrastructure provider selling KVM and VMware servers, bare metal, managed databases, object storage and colocation from Nordic data centers.

H

  • Hetzner

    Hetzner is an independent German hosting company offering VPS, dedicated servers, cloud and storage infrastructure from its own data centers.

L

  • Linode

    Linode is a US VPS provider founded in 2003, acquired by Akamai in 2022 and now sold as Akamai Cloud.

  • lowcloud

    A Bielefeld startup that runs an application as a managed container in Germany, or operates Kubernetes inside the customer's own cloud account.

N

  • NearlyFreeSpeech.NET

    Shared hosting metered by what a site consumes rather than sold by the plan.

  • netcup

    Karlsruhe-based provider selling low-priced webhosting, VPS and root servers from European, North American and Asian locations, part of the Anexia group.

S

  • Scaleway

    French cloud provider selling instances, bare metal, managed Kubernetes, serverless containers and managed databases, with European data residency as the pitch.

  • Sliplane

    German Docker hosting that bills for the server rather than the container, so unlimited services can share one machine, with managed Postgres and S3 storage.

V

  • Verda

    Finnish GPU cloud selling GPU virtual machines, multi-node clusters and serverless containers from data centers in Helsinki.

Which of these providers is best?

Hard to say without knowing the project. A free tier matters for a side project and barely at all for a shop that loses money every minute it is down. Read a few records side by side; the guide says where to start.