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IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC VPS: prices, locations and ping
IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC as a metro line
Every data-center city, west to east. Each station is a place you can deploy.
Plans and prices
| Plan | Line | vCPU | RAM | Disk | Traffic | USD / mo | $ / GB RAM |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| cx2-2x4 | Compute (cx2) | 2 | 4 GB | — | — | $57 | $14.25 |
| bx2-2x8 | Balanced (bx2) | 2 | 8 GB | — | — | $65 | $8.12 |
| mx2-2x16 | Memory (mx2) | 2 | 16 GB | — | — | $81 | $5.06 |
| bx2-4x16 | Balanced (bx2) | 4 | 16 GB | — | — | $131 | $8.19 |
| bx2-8x32 | Balanced (bx2) | 8 | 32 GB | — | — | $261 | $8.16 |
| cx2-8x16 | Compute (cx2) | 8 | 16 GB | — | — | $229 | $14.31 |
| mx2-8x64 | Memory (mx2) | 8 | 64 GB | — | — | $327 | $5.11 |
| bx2-16x64 | Balanced (bx2) | 16 | 64 GB | — | — | $522 | $8.16 |
List prices converted to USD per month. Current pricing page ↗
Estimated ping from big markets
What’s included
- NVMe disks
- DDoS filtering
- Snapshots
- IPv6
- API
- Private networking
- Custom ISO
- Dedicated-CPU plans
- Unmetered traffic
- Windows images
- Backups (extra cost)
KVM · panel: IBM Cloud console, CLI and REST/Terraform APIs
Support, terms, payment
Pay with: not listed.
Support: not stated.
SLA: none published. Refund window: none stated.
Based in: Armonk, US.
Strengths
- 13 multizone regions including Madrid, Osaka, Montreal and two Indian cities
- Wide profile range: balanced, compute, memory, Flex burstable (10/25/50% baseline), Spot and GPU
- Big new-customer discount (70% for a year) in Madrid, Sao Paulo and Osaka until end of 2026
Trade-offs
- Not a budget VPS: the smallest comparable 2-vCPU profile is $57-65/month before disk and egress
- Pricing is only visible inside the console; public pages give no per-profile rates
- Trustpilot score is 1.9 from 89 reviews, with few recent ones
Hosts with similar footprints
- Microsoft Azure Virtual Machines (B-series)$6.86 · 48 cities
- Google Cloud Compute Engine$6.11 · 41 cities
- UltaHost$5.52 · 29 cities
- Akamai Cloud (Linode)$5 · 26 cities
- FastComet$53.87 · 24 cities
- SSD Nodes$17 · 15 cities
Questions people ask
How much does IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC cost?
Its cheapest priced plan is $57 a month (cx2-2x4). The median across its plans works out to $8.16 per GB of RAM. Check the provider’s page for current promotions.
Where are IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC’s servers?
Dallas, Washington DC, Toronto, Montreal, Sao Paulo, Frankfurt, London, Madrid, Tokyo, Osaka, Chennai, Mumbai and 1 more — 9 countries across North America, South America, Europe, Asia, Oceania.
Does IBM Cloud Virtual Servers for VPC accept crypto or PayPal?
The pages we read did not list payment methods.