KVM VPS · Istanbul · New York soon
Pay by the hour. Never more than the monthly price in a billing period. Delete it and billing stops.
An hourly VPS is a virtual private server rented by the hour instead of by the month. You deploy it when a job starts, delete it when the job ends, and pay for the hours in between.
That suits work with an end date: a test run, a demo, a data migration, a weekend project. At HourlyVPS each server is a KVM virtual machine with its own vCPU, memory, NVMe disk and dedicated IPv4 address. Five rules decide the bill.
How you pay
Every server is billed by the hour: the plan’s hourly rate is deducted from the server’s prepaid balance for every hour it exists, powered on or off, until you delete it.
Billing unit
Billing is by the hour: every hour a server exists is charged at the plan’s hourly rate. The price tapes and cost tables on this site count every started hour as a full hour, so they show the most a duration can cost; the cost calculator charges a partial hour to the nearest cent, as the bill does.
Monthly cap
Every plan is capped at 500 hours per billing period: the monthly price is 500 times the hourly rate, and after 500 billed hours (about 20.8 days) the rest of the period is free, so a server left on all month pays exactly the monthly price and never more. A billing period is one month from your order date, not the calendar month, and the cap resets every period.
When billing ends
A stopped server is still billed, because its vCPU, memory, disk and IP addresses stay reserved for you; only deleting the server stops billing.
Account credit
Your account runs on prepaid credit, with a minimum top-up of $5.
Every plan has one hourly price and a monthly price that works as a cap: in a billing period, the charges for a server stop once they reach it. A short job costs only its hours, and nothing is prepaid or refunded. When a job runs for several days you can rent a VPS by the day on the same meter, and a server that never switches off is a monthly VPS with no lock-in. The ruler shows one billing period of Quartz Q4.
6 of our 9 plans, priced per hour. Switch the table to read the same price per day (24 hours) or as the monthly cap; each Deploy button orders that plan’s metered server.
| Plan | vCPU | RAM | NVMe | Traffic | Price | Order |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quartz Q11 Gbps port | 1 shared | 1 GB | 25 GB | 2 TB/monthIstanbul | $0.01/hour$0.24/day$5.00/month max | Deploy Quartz Q1 |
| Quartz Q21 Gbps port | 1 shared | 2 GB | 50 GB | 3 TB/monthIstanbul | $0.02/hour$0.48/day$10.00/month max | Deploy Quartz Q2 |
| Quartz Q41 Gbps port | 2 shared | 4 GB | 80 GB | 4 TB/monthIstanbul | $0.03/hour$0.72/day$15.00/month max | Deploy Quartz Q4 |
| Quartz Q81 Gbps port | 4 shared | 8 GB | 160 GB | 5 TB/monthIstanbul | $0.05/hour$1.20/day$25.00/month max | Deploy Quartz Q8 |
| Chrono C825 Gbps port | 2 dedicated | 8 GB | 100 GB | 6 TB/monthIstanbul | $0.07/hour$1.68/day$35.00/month max | Deploy Chrono C8 |
| Chrono C1625 Gbps port | 4 dedicated | 16 GB | 200 GB | 8 TB/monthIstanbul | $0.13/hour$3.12/day$65.00/month max | Deploy Chrono C16 |
Six common jobs on the meter at today’s prices. Each card draws the job to scale, on a 24-hour ruler or a billing-period ruler, and names the plan and the total.
1 hour
$0.02Quartz Q2 · 1 × $0.02/hour
A self-hosted runner for one pipeline, deleted when the job reports back.
3 hours
$0.39Chrono C16 · 3 × $0.13/hour
k6 or Locust generators on pinned vCPUs, so the client is never the bottleneck.
6 hours
$0.18Quartz Q4 · 6 × $0.03/hour
A clean copy of the app for one review call, gone before the end of the day.
2 days
$2.40Quartz Q8 · 48 × $0.05/hour
One shared box for the team from kickoff to the final demo, deleted on the way home.
14 days
$10.08Quartz Q4 · 336 × $0.03/hour
A shared staging box for a two-week sprint, rebuilt from scratch for the next one.
1 month
$10.00 capped at the monthly priceQuartz Q2 · 1 × $10.00 monthly cap
A bot, a small site or a VPN that never sleeps: once the charges reach the monthly price, the rest of the billing period is free.
Point load tests only at systems you own or have written permission to test. The acceptable use policy sets out what is allowed.
No contract to sign and nothing to give back. The whole life of a server fits in four steps.
Quartz plans share vCPU time and suit most jobs. Chrono plans pin each vCPU to your server for work that keeps the processor busy for hours.
Istanbul. Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux or Rocky Linux, or your own ISO on request.
Log in as root over SSH, or use the VNC console if the network is not up yet. Take a snapshot before a risky change; script it all through the REST API.
Copy off what you want to keep, then delete the server in the client area. Billing stops when the server is deleted; see when billing ends.
The fine print at reading size. Each sentence below is the rule itself, word for word, not a summary of it.
Charges are deducted in whole cents: a full hour costs exactly the hourly rate, and a partial first or last hour is rounded to the nearest cent, never more than a full hour.
Ordering a server takes an initial credit of $5 ($9 for Chrono C32, $16 for Chrono C64). It is prepaid credit, not a fee: the server’s hourly usage is deducted from it, and when it runs out you top up.
When a server’s balance is down to about 24 hours of usage, you get a top-up invoice; at zero balance the server is suspended, and a suspended server is deleted 7 days later.
Usage is metered, so there are no refunds to claim: you pay only for the hours a server exists, never more than the monthly price in a billing period. Account credit is not paid out to your card or crypto wallet unless the law requires it. Details: Refunds
Istanbul plans include the monthly traffic allowance listed for each plan, prorated for a server that exists for part of a billing period.
Every server comes with one dedicated IPv4 address and IPv6, included in the plan price. Details: IP addresses
The same hardware sits behind every plan. Only the size and the CPU policy change.
| Host CPUs | Intel Xeon PlatinumQuartz plans share vCPU time; Chrono plans pin each vCPU |
|---|---|
| Memory | DDR4 ECC registered |
| Storage | Enterprise NVMe SSD |
| Network port | 1 Gbps (Quartz) · 25 Gbps (Chrono) |
| Virtualization | KVM (full virtual machine, own kernel) |
| DDoS mitigation | Always on, inline, 1.2 Tbps capacity |
| IP addresses | 1 dedicated IPv4 + IPv6 |
| Access | Full root over SSH · VNC console |
| Snapshots and API | Snapshots · REST API |
| Images | Ubuntu · Debian · AlmaLinux · Rocky LinuxCustom ISO on request |
Shared vCPU, for most workloads
vCPU time is shared with other servers on the same host, which keeps the price down. A good fit for web apps, bots, staging copies, CI jobs and anything that spends most of its time waiting on the network or the disk.
Dedicated (pinned) vCPU, for sustained CPU work
Each vCPU is pinned and reserved for your server instead of shared. Choose it for work that keeps the processor busy for hours at a stretch: compiles, encodes, simulations, game servers with many players.
Servers run in Istanbul today; New York is coming soon and cannot be ordered yet. Pick the city closest to the people or systems your server talks to.
Türkiye
United States
Not open for orders yet. Plans, prices and traffic terms for this city will be published when servers there can be deployed.
Choose a location to check your latency.
A registered US company sells the servers, support answers in writing, and the payment rules are the ones printed on this page.
You can pay and top up your credit by card or cryptocurrency.
Opening an account takes minimal paperwork; see the verification policy.
Short answers, using today’s prices. The full plan list and every rule are on the pricing page.
The billing rules near the top of this page decide the bill. Applied to one job: 8 hours on Quartz Q4 cost 8 × $0.03/hour = $0.24.
Delete it a few minutes after the 8-hour mark and that part hour is charged too, rounded to the nearest cent and never more than a full hour, so the job costs at most $0.27 (9 hours).
Yes. Quartz Q4 left stopped for a weekend still costs $1.44 for its 48 hours, the same as running. When billing ends explains why.
If you will not need the server for a while, copy its data somewhere safe and delete it. Deploying a fresh one later takes a few clicks.
Yes. In a billing period, the charges for a server stop once they reach its monthly price: on Quartz Q4 that is $15.00, reached after 500 hours (20 days 20 hours). The rest of that billing period costs nothing more.
A server left on for 30 days: 1 × $15.00 monthly cap. There is nothing to switch and no contract: the cap applies by itself.
Ordering a server takes an initial credit: $5 for Quartz Q1 to Chrono C16, $9 for Chrono C32 and $16 for Chrono C64. It is not a fee. It is prepaid credit in your account, and the server’s hours are paid from it.
At the smallest plan’s rate, $5 pays for 500 hours of a Quartz Q1 (20 days 20 hours at $0.01/hour). Hourly usage is deducted from the credit, and when it runs out you top up.
You get a top-up invoice well before anything stops: on Quartz Q4 a day of usage is $0.72, and that is roughly what is left when the invoice is issued. The low-balance rule sets out what happens at zero; the Terms of Service have the full terms.
Deleting a server removes it together with its disk, and it cannot be undone. Copy off anything you want to keep first, for example with rsync or scp to another machine. Billing for the server stops when it is deleted.
Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux and Rocky Linux images are ready to deploy. For anything else, open a ticket and ask for a custom ISO, then install it from the VNC console.
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Deploy, do the job, delete. The bill follows the hours the server existed, and never passes the monthly price in a billing period.
Quartz Q4 $0.03/hour
Deploy