Every VPS we would put an AI agent on, side by side
Sorted by what you pay after the introductory period, because that is the price you actually live with. Click any column to re-sort.
Read this first: the cheapest line is not the answer for everyone. Hetzner and Contabo cost a third of DigitalOcean for the same RAM, but DigitalOcean's documentation and panel are the reason many people never open a support ticket. The table tells you the numbers; the chooser tells you which numbers matter for you.
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How to read the columns
- Renewal €/mo is the price after any intro period. Hostinger's headline price needs a 24-month term and roughly doubles at renewal; we show the renewal.
- 1-click agent means the provider installs OpenClaw for you at checkout or from a template. Contabo and Hostinger do. Everyone else is Docker and a guide.
- Panel is our one-line verdict on the control panel. It matters more than people admit: you will use it at 11pm when something breaks.
- EU data means you can place the server inside the EU. All six can; the American providers do it through Amsterdam or Frankfurt regions.
- Affiliate marks the providers that pay us. Hetzner and Oracle do not, and are in the table on merit.
What is not in the table, on purpose
Benchmark numbers. We have run them, and they move month to month with load on shared hosts. The stable finding is simple enough to say in words: Hetzner's NVMe is consistently fast; Contabo's is noticeably slower under I/O and its CPU steal is higher; the others sit in between. For an agent that mostly waits on API calls this rarely matters. For browser automation it can.