An OVHcloud alternative you can rent for a day
OVHcloud bills its dedicated servers by the month, and its Kimsufi range adds an installation fee equal to one month's rent. Here you rent the same kind of bare metal by the day, the week or the month, with no setup fee, in Cyprus and Texas.
What's different
| Feature | OVHcloud dedicated | VPS Provider |
|---|---|---|
| Shortest billing period | 1 month | 1 day |
| Setup fee | Kimsufi: one month's rent, from $11.10 to $18.80 on the models listed | None, on every server and every period |
| Entry price | Kimsufi from $11.10 a month on 2013-era Xeon E5; Advance from $136.00 a month | $10 a day or $65 a month for a 6-core Ryzen 5 3600 with 64 GB |
| Longer terms | Monthly, with discounts on 12 and 24 month commitments | 3 months (5% off) or 6 months (10% off), no commitment |
| Brands to choose from | Kimsufi, So you Start and OVHcloud ranges, each with its own site and support | One catalogue, one price list, one account |
| Locations | 46 datacentres worldwide | Cyprus (EU) and Texas (US) |
| Virtual machines | Fixed VPS and Public Cloud plans | Any size: 1–32 vCPU, 1–128 GB RAM, 20–2000 GB NVMe |
OVHcloud prices, ranges and installation fees as published on eco.ovhcloud.com (Kimsufi) and ovhcloud.com (bare metal) on 6 November 2026, excluding tax. OVHcloud, Kimsufi and So you Start are trademarks of OVH SAS. VPS Provider is not affiliated with OVHcloud.
What a short job actually costs
The cheapest Kimsufi server, KS-B, is $11.10 a month plus $11.10 of installation fees: $22.20 before the machine is yours, whether you need it for three days or thirty. A day on our Ryzen 5 3600 is $10, so three days is $30 and nothing else, and a week is $32. Rent the same machine for a full month and you pay $65, the same list price as the equivalent Hetzner machine, with no fee on top.
When VPS Provider makes sense
You need the server for days, not months
A migration, a load test, a render or a conference demo. Pay for the days you use instead of a month plus an installation fee.
Current hardware at the low end
The cheapest OVHcloud servers run processors from 2013 and 2014. Our entry server is a six-core Ryzen 5 3600 with 64 GB of memory and two NVMe drives.
Odd sizes
A virtual machine with exactly the vCPUs, memory and storage you need, priced per unit, when no fixed plan fits.
Where OVHcloud is the better choice
A fair comparison says both sides. Choose OVHcloud when one of these matters more to you.
Datacentres almost everywhere
OVHcloud lists 46 datacentres across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. We have two rooms, in Cyprus and in Texas.
A full cloud around the server
Private network, object storage, managed Kubernetes, load balancers and their own public cloud sit next to the bare metal. We rent servers and virtual machines, nothing else.
A very large company
OVHcloud is one of the biggest hosting companies in Europe, with its own datacentres, its own network and a long track record. We are small and new.
Questions
Is VPS Provider cheaper than OVHcloud?
For a few days, yes: you pay 16% of the monthly price per day and there is no installation fee, while an OVHcloud rental starts at a full month. For a long rental on the cheapest hardware, Kimsufi is cheaper per month than anything we sell, on older processors. Our monthly prices match the Hetzner list price for the same hardware.
Does OVHcloud charge a setup fee?
On the Kimsufi range the installation fee shown next to each server equals one month's rent, from $11.10 to $18.80 on the models listed on 6 November 2026. We never charge a setup fee, on any server or any billing period.
Can I move from Kimsufi or So you Start?
Yes. You get a server with Ubuntu, Debian, Rocky Linux or AlmaLinux installed and root access over SSH, so you copy your data and configuration the way you would between any two Linux servers.
How do you compare with Hetzner?
Our monthly prices are the Hetzner list price for the same hardware, without Hetzner's setup fee, and we also bill by the day and the week. See the Hetzner comparison.