Cherry Servers Review (2026)Hourly Bare Metal and VPS
By Daan Haket · Researched and written with an AI assistant · who does what
The exact price of each virtual-server configuration loads dynamically, so we could not read a full price list. Spot servers have no SLA and can be stopped on two minutes of notice, and card payments need an identity check.
developers and small teams who want a single-tenant bare-metal or KVM server billed by the hour, with root access, in European data centres.
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Pricing (2026)
✓ Pricing re-verified 10 Nov 2026
“Plans start at $3.5/month for a 1 vCore Cloud VPS.”Source: cherryservers.com/pricing/virtual-servers, read 21 Oct 2026
“€16.00 / 5 IPs / mo”Source: cherryservers.com/pricing, read 21 Oct 2026
“€2.99 / 50GB / mo”Source: cherryservers.com/pricing, read 21 Oct 2026
Cherry Servers bills by the hour, the month or a longer fixed term, and the plan table shows prices excluding VAT. The overview page lists virtual servers from €0.015 an hour and dedicated servers from €0.084 an hour. The virtual-server FAQ says plans start at $3.5 a month for a 1 vCore Cloud VPS, and that every virtual plan includes 1 to 35 TB of traffic depending on the plan.
Add-ons are priced separately: Elastic Block Storage from €0.066 per GB a month, Backup Storage from €2.99 for 50 GB a month (free for dedicated servers), a Floating IP from €2.00 a month, a 5-address public subnet from €16.00 a month and a load balancer from €10.14 a month. The site offers a 15-day money-back guarantee. Exact monthly prices for each virtual-server configuration load dynamically and were not visible in the page text, and the page quotes euros in one place and dollars in another, so check the plan table and the VAT line at checkout. Plans change, so check the live price on their site before you buy.
Cherry Servers’s pricing page, as we read it
What Cherry Servers does
Bare-metal and virtual server hosting in European data centres, billed by the hour or on fixed terms, with root access.
You pay for the hardware you pick, by the hour or on a fixed term
There are no plan tiers like a software subscription: you choose a virtual server (shared VPS or dedicated-core VDS) or a dedicated bare-metal server, and extras such as storage, IPs and a load balancer are billed on top. Hourly billing suits short tests; the fixed monthly and longer terms are cheaper per hour but commit you, so test with an hourly server inside the 15-day guarantee first.
How to actually use Cherry Servers
Sign up in the client portal, pick a virtual or dedicated server and a location (Lithuania, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Chicago, Singapore or Tokyo, depending on the product), choose the operating system and networking, and confirm the order. The site says a virtual server is deployed in about 3 minutes and a dedicated server in about 12 minutes, with root access on Linux or administrator rights on Windows. Card payments need an identity check through iDenfy, according to the payment docs. We did not open an account or order a server.
Distilled from Cherry Servers' own pricing overview, virtual-server pricing page, spot-server docs and payment docs, read on 10 November 2026 with research prepared in October 2026. Cherry Servers is an affiliate partner of ours through Awin. We have not used the service ourselves.
Cherry Servers vs Contabo, side by side
Each column shows the vendor’s own published entry price, read on the date shown. Entry prices can cover different services or units, so check what each one buys. We do not average them into a score.
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The natural comparison is Contabo: Contabo is in our directory as a reviewed VPS provider. We have not compared the two on price, so check the same vCore and RAM size on both, and the billing terms, before you commit.
Frequently asked questions
How much does Cherry Servers cost?
Per its pricing pages read on 10 November 2026, virtual servers start at €0.015 an hour and dedicated servers at €0.084 an hour, excluding VAT. The FAQ says a 1 vCore Cloud VPS starts at $3.5 a month.
Is there a money-back guarantee?
The pricing page lists a 15-day money-back guarantee. We did not check the conditions.
What happens to a spot server?
The spot docs say the SLA does not apply to spot servers and that they can be stopped with two minutes of notice, so do not run anything you cannot lose.
How do I pay?
The site lists 20+ payment methods, including cryptocurrencies. The payment docs say card payments need an identity check hosted by iDenfy, and fixed-term services are not renewed automatically by default.
How fast is a server ready?
The site says about 3 minutes on average for virtual servers and 12 minutes for dedicated ones. That is the supplier figure; we did not order one.
What do we not know?
The price of each configuration, the VAT amount at checkout, and the current promotions, since the plan table loads dynamically.
Is this a hands-on review of Cherry Servers?
This is a researched assessment, not a hands-on test. Where we've used a tool ourselves, we say so explicitly. We name what each tool is good and bad at, and we earn a commission only if you sign up, at no cost to you.
- Read 2026-11-10 on cherryservers.com/pricing and /pricing/virtual-servers.
- A dated screenshot of that pricing page, kept on this site as the receipt.
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