From about $0.0025 per hour # Hourly VPS: pay as you go, stop anytime Run a KVM server in Germany for an hour, a weekend or a year. Your balance is charged hour by hour, and deleting the server stops the charges. [Get an hourly VPS](https://cloud.datapasa.com/register) [See plans](#plans) ## How pay as you go works here A prepaid balance, charged in small hourly steps. ### Charged every hour The first hour is charged when you order, then each following hour in advance, straight from your balance. ### No contract, no setup fee There is no minimum term and nothing to cancel. Order a server when you need it and delete it when you are done. ### Transparent rates Monthly prices are simply the hourly rate times 730, so what you see on the plan table is what you pay over time. ### Low balance warnings We email you when your balance falls below 30% of the monthly cost of your active servers, at most once a day. ### Ready in minutes Servers deploy in a few minutes, so a short task does not waste time or money waiting for setup. ### Top up by card or crypto Add funds from $5 through Stripe or with USDT, BTC and about 100 other coin and network pairs. ## Hourly VPS plans Each plan shows its hourly rate. The monthly price is that rate times 730. VPS-1 $1.81/mo $0.0025/hr CPU 1 vCPU RAM 1 GB NVMe 16 GB Traffic 1 TB [Order VPS-1](https://cloud.datapasa.com/cloud/order?tariff=ce21ba18-988f-4eb8-947a-41adb86019d9) VPS-2 $3.54/mo $0.0048/hr CPU 1 vCPU RAM 2 GB NVMe 32 GB Traffic 32 TB [Order VPS-2](https://cloud.datapasa.com/cloud/order?tariff=a8cdefa7-dc24-45d3-aeaf-ce97fee1837d) s1.micro $6.06/mo $0.0083/hr CPU 1 vCPU RAM 2 GB NVMe 32 GB Traffic 32 TB [Order s1.micro](https://cloud.datapasa.com/cloud/order?tariff=d95a1121-7739-4408-a851-dd9d42df11cf) VPS-3 $7.09/mo $0.0097/hr CPU 2 vCPU RAM 4 GB NVMe 64 GB Traffic 32 TB [Order VPS-3](https://cloud.datapasa.com/cloud/order?tariff=402a3c18-a3ab-4447-85a5-138162552777) s1.small $11.68/mo $0.0160/hr CPU 2 vCPU RAM 4 GB NVMe 48 GB Traffic 32 TB [Order s1.small](https://cloud.datapasa.com/cloud/order?tariff=45f8f274-2772-40ce-99e0-c70494d793b3) VPS-4 $12.16/mo $0.0167/hr CPU 4 vCPU RAM 8 GB NVMe 128 GB Traffic 32 TB [Order VPS-4](https://cloud.datapasa.com/cloud/order?tariff=0a5f56fa-c6bf-475a-a5c9-e6afa6900f93) [See all plans and prices](https://datapasa.com/en/pricing) ## Hourly billing, with the actual numbers Every plan has an hourly rate, and the monthly price you see is that rate multiplied by 730 hours. VPS-3 with 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM and 64 GB NVMe costs $0.009708 per hour. Run it for 10 hours and you pay about $0.10. Keep it for a full day and it comes to roughly $0.23. Leave it on all month and you pay $7.09. The smallest plan, VPS-1, costs about a quarter of a cent per hour, and even VPS-7 with 8 vCPU and 24 GB RAM is under five cents per hour. That changes how you think about servers: instead of keeping one machine busy with everything, you can start a dedicated one for a specific job and throw it away afterwards. - VPS-3 for 10 hours: about $0.10. - VPS-3 for 24 hours: about $0.23. - VPS-3 for a full month: $7.09. - VPS-7 for 10 hours: about $0.46. ## When pay as you go makes sense Hourly servers suit anything with a clear start and end. Heavy CI jobs and release builds that are too slow on shared runners can run on a bigger machine for an hour. You can test a new OS version, try out a deployment script on a clean system, or reproduce a bug from a customer report without touching your main server. They also fit short events. Host a game server for a Friday night with friends, a demo environment for a client meeting, or extra capacity for a launch day, then delete it once the event is over. If traffic grows, order a larger plan next to your current one, move the workload, and remove the old server. ## What happens with your balance DataPasa works on a prepaid US dollar balance. You top up from $5, and every running server takes its hourly charge from it. When you delete a server, charging stops at once. Hours that have already been used are not returned, and since each hour is charged in advance, the hour in progress counts in full. If your balance drops below 30% of the monthly cost of your active servers, you get an email. If it reaches zero, servers are suspended for 24 hours with their data kept, which gives you time to top up. After that they are deleted along with their disks and IP addresses, so keep a small cushion for long running servers. ## Real servers, not a limited trial tier Hourly billing applies to every plan, not a cut down version. Each server is a KVM virtual machine in Falkenstein, Germany, with dedicated vCPU and RAM, NVMe SSD, full root access and an uplink of up to 1 Gbps. You can choose Ubuntu, Debian, AlmaLinux, Rocky Linux, CentOS or FreeBSD, and reinstall from the panel. Because a server can be recreated in minutes, it is worth keeping your setup in a script or a Docker Compose file. That way spinning up a fresh machine for a test is one command after SSH login. Our wiki has a step by step guide explaining how hourly billing is calculated, linked on this page. ## Step by step guides Written by our team and tested on DataPasa servers. [How hourly billing works](https://datapasa.com/wiki/billing/hourly-billing) [How to buy a VPS at DataPasa](https://datapasa.com/wiki/getting-started/how-to-buy-a-vps) ## Hourly VPS FAQ The first hour is charged from your prepaid balance when you order. After that each hour is charged in advance. When you delete the server, charging stops immediately. VPS-3 costs $0.009708 per hour, so 10 hours cost about $0.10 and a full day about $0.23. The smallest plan, VPS-1, costs about a quarter of a cent per hour. Yes. Top up your balance by card through Stripe or with USDT, USDC, BTC, ETH, XMR and about 100 coin and network pairs in total. The hourly charges work the same way. Hours already used are not returned. Charging simply stops from the moment of deletion. Unused money from card top-ups can be refunded to the card on request. Crypto top-ups and bonus credits are not refundable. No. There is no contract, no minimum term and no setup fee. The only minimum is the $5 top-up amount, and that money stays on your balance until your servers use it. Servers are suspended for 24 hours with their data kept. If you top up in that time they continue. Otherwise they are deleted with their disks and IP addresses. ## Related pages [ VPS Germany KVM servers in a Falkenstein data center with NVMe SSD, dedicated vCPU and RAM and up to 1 Gbps uplink. 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