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Is OVH still the best choice after the price increase?
OVH recently updated pricing for the VPS 2026 range (VPS-1 to VPS-6), and the increase is pretty significant — around 40% to 67%.
For example:
VPS-1: $4.90 → $7.60 (+55%)
VPS-2: $7.70 → $11.75 (+52%)
VPS-3: $15.00 → $23.50 (+56%)
VPS-4: $26.00 → $43.50 (+67%)
VPS-5: $40.40 → $64.50 (+59%)
VPS-6: $53.40 → $86.00 (+61%)
VPSLZ-1: $6.00 → $8.50 (+41%)
They also mentioned additional IPv4 addresses and some dedicated ranges are affected.
Service performance, availability and support levels remain unchanged.
At these new prices:
VPS-4 is now $43.50/month
VPS-6 is $86/month
This puts them much closer to entry-level dedicated servers from other providers.
So the question is:
After this price increase, is OVH still the best value option?
Or are there better alternatives in 2026?
Curious to hear what everyone thinks — staying or moving?
Comments
ovh no, @HostBilby is
Yes, KS-LE-B and KS-MYSTERY will stay at the same price.
wonder what's gonna happen to my old bf-vpsbv i've had since bf 2019!
I'm staying with OVH. I got a bunch of VPS-2. They still offer a lot of cores/ram and true unmetered bw for good price. The CPU performance isn't great but it will do for me. It really depends on what you are doing with it.
They said they are not touching pricing on older plans only vps that was sold in 2025/2026. Like I have some VPS-LE with Epyc.
oh very cool, thanks man!
Ovh
Netcup
Hetzner
Contaboo
It seems that it was a classic , low price to get market share and then increase move
How does the current pricing of OVH compare to Hetzner and to Netcup?
OVH Vps may be not worth anymore. At this point if you want to stay with OVH you can buy a low end Eco Dedicated Server! For example KS-B , KS-C or KS-1 , they have similar price but much more performance.
Yes, the only reason I would choose VPS-1 is because it has the LOCALE option; otherwise I would go with Kimsufi/Eco first
I choose OVH VPS for that 1G unmetered bw.
Anyone got a fresh yabs of VPS-2 ?
Let's be frank. OVH VPS were a real bargain for a while. Now they are probably just OK.
I think you would now get a better deals from HostHatch and GreenCloudVPS. But I prepaid for a year, and we will see what the situation will be a year from now.
Hetzner has some budget VPS in Germany and Finland, but their US prices are not exactly on the low side, in my opinion.
Yeah. The cheapest OVH server is like $5 for 8GB RAM. Even if the CPU is low speed, it's a great deal for web apps and stuff. even with the price increase it's $1/GB basically. Still a good value, on par with many lowend options.
ovh is crap, same like scaleway. what is wrong with those french cloud companies?!
They like to make their GUI's feel like a baroque pipe organ. Why not only a start and a stop button, maybe its not tres chique n'est pas? Their website redirects from us to france back to germany. Language switches with every page reload. OMG those french. Compare that to the east german DDR look and feel of netcup or hetzner. What a difference. You know that it works, not some art nouveau new quantum api nobody is interested in that art.
Contabo seems to be the cheapest, but careful! You can get actually decent performance in some upgraded locations or quite crappy one in other locations.
For the sake of fairness: I'm not up to date, didn't test since a few months, maybe more (or even all) locations have been upgraded meanwhile.
That "oh so expensive" OVH VPS still is relatively cheap, especially when considering the traffic volume of at least 100+TB and probably would be what I'd pick if I needed a relatively beefy VPS.
Contabo isn't as bad as some people say. I never really had big issues there, performance is very good, pretty stable as well. Maybe I'm just lucky, lol.
OVH no, welcome to yoursunny summer host we didn't raise our prices and we have a new mail plan too.
We can't sure yet.
Email says otherwise.
Bare Metal:
Range Current Price/Month (USD) New Price/Month (USD)
ADV-1 - Gen4 $130 $134
ADV-2 - Gen4 $156 $173
ADV-3 - Gen4 $210 $255
ADV-4 - Gen4 $260 $306
ADV-Stor - Gen4 $260 $294
GAME-1 Gen4 $170 $179
GAME-2 Gen4 $220 $230
Scale-a1 - Gen3 $500 $523
Scale-a2 - Gen3 $550 $561
Scale-a3 - Gen3 $600 $638
Scale-a4 - Gen3 $700 $701
Scale-a5 - Gen3 $780 $816
Scale-a6 - Gen3 $899 $931
Scale-a7 - Gen3 $1,000 $1,058
Scale-a8 - Gen3 $1,130 $1,147
Scale-a1 - Gen2 $420 $472
Scale-a2 - Gen2 $460 $498
Scale-a3 - Gen2 $499 $531
Scale-a4 - Gen2 $540 $587
Scale-a5 - Gen2 $599 $638
Scale-a6 - Gen2 $700 $744
Scale-i1 - Gen2 $420 $472
Scale-i2 - Gen2 $460 $498
Scale-i3 - Gen2 $490 $531
Rise-M - Gen1 $114 $118
Rise-L - Gen1 $162 $177
Rise-XL - Gen1 $320 $354
ADV-1 - Gen3 $102 $115
ADV-2 - Gen3 $149 $160
ADV-3 - Gen3 $197 $217
ADV-4 - Gen3 $245 $260
ADV-5 - Gen3 $300 $343
ADV-Stor - Gen3 $240 $255
GAME-1 - Gen3 $180 $189
GAME-2 - Gen3 $264 $272
HGR-AI-2 - Gen2 $3,320 $3,505
HGR-STOR-1 - Gen2 $1,650 $1,652
HGR-HCI-i1 - Gen2 $1,050 $1,121
HGR-HCI-i2 - Gen2 $1,150 $1,228
HGR-HCI-i3 - Gen2 $1,250 $1,322
HGR-HCI-i4 - Gen2 $1,350 $1,428
HGR-HCI-a1 - Gen2 $1,252 $1,322
HGR-HCI-a2 - Gen2 $1,427 $1,505
HGR-SDS-1 - Gen2 $1,250 $1,322
HGR-SDS-2 - Gen2 $1,450 $1,523
I recently bought vps from ovh and guess what? it uses ancient hardware. They still rock Intel Haswell - that was unfortunate buy. 1200 benchmark is not comparable to anything else.
OVH's UI (even the new version) sucks... but the service is actually really good.
The only thing that's going to change with their new pricing is that I'll cancel a few servers that I have for testing and personal projects and consolidate those projects onto other ones to trim the fat, but I'm still a happy customer.
just think in 2 years they will announce a price reduction?
Yes, but for new customer on a "new range"
where have people been moving to? a few months before my price increase kicks in but not many OVH pricing comparable in california (OVH Local Zone)
I am personally gonna be waiting for black friday. OVH is large enough and cheap enough too but thanks for the pointers.
Edit: Especially given not having too worry about egress costs at all is something that I really appreciate a lot in most/all situations.
Waiting for black friday seems to me the best option personally for me, yeah.