Plans / Bandwidth cost
Bandwidth and traffic costs, explained
How much outbound traffic your hosting includes, and which plans give you the most headroom before you pay overage fees.
Metered vs unmetered
Budget VPS hosts usually include a large traffic allowance, tens of terabytes a month, or advertise unmetered bandwidth on a shared port. Hyperscale clouds work differently: compute is cheap to start, but every gigabyte leaving the network is billed, and a busy media site can run up a surprising egress bill. If you serve large files or lots of images, included bandwidth matters as much as CPU.
How to keep traffic costs down
- Put a CDN in front of static assets. Cloudflare and similar edges absorb most of the traffic for free or cheap.
- Prefer hosts with generous included transfer if your workload is bandwidth-heavy.
- Watch egress pricing on hyperscalers; object storage with no egress fees can pay for itself.
Plans with the most included bandwidth
| Provider / Plan | Bandwidth | Resources | Price | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cloudflare Pages (free) | unmetered | - | $0/mo | Get |
| Namecheap Stellar | unmetered | 20 GB SSD | $1.98/mo | Get |
| IONOS VPS Linux XS | unmetered | 1.0 vCPU · 1.00 GB RAM · 10 GB NVMe | €2/mo | Get |
| DreamHost Shared Starter | unmetered | - | $2.59/mo | Get |
| GreenGeeks Lite | unmetered | 10 GB SSD | $2.95/mo | Get |
| Namecheap Stellar Plus | unmetered | - | $2.98/mo | Get |
| A2 Hosting Startup | unmetered | 100 GB NVMe | $2.99/mo | Get |
| Hostinger Premium Shared | unmetered | 100 GB SSD | $2.99/mo | Get |
| IONOS VPS Linux S | unmetered | 1.0 vCPU · 2.00 GB RAM · 80 GB SSD | €3/mo | Get |
| OVHcloud VPS Starter | unmetered | 1.0 vCPU · 2.00 GB RAM · 20 GB SSD | $3.90/mo | Get |
| DreamHost Shared Unlimited | unmetered | - | $3.95/mo | Get |
| OVHcloud VPS vle-2 | unmetered | 2.0 vCPU · 2.00 GB RAM · 40 GB NVMe | $3.99/mo | Get |