OVHcloud Alternative 2026: Pricing, Performance & Features

OVHcloud is Europe's largest cloud provider, with its own data centers, its own network, and a VPS line priced lower than almost anything comparable. Raff Technologies is a US cloud provider selling VMs, managed databases, object storage, Functions and Apps on one account. On price this is not a close comparison: OVHcloud VPS-1 gives 2 vCores, 4 GB and 40 GB NVMe for $4.54/month, where the nearest Raff plan is $17.99. What differs is disk, port speed, how long a backup is kept, and what runs beside the server.

OVHcloud VPS and Raff at a glance

OVHcloud is Europe's largest cloud provider, running its own data centers and network since 1999. Raff Technologies is a US cloud provider selling VMs, managed databases, object storage, Functions and Apps from a single us-east region.

One thing has to be settled before any price is compared: OVHcloud sells two different compute products.

A Raff VM is the second kind of product. It bills hourly, exposes an API and CLI, resizes on demand, sits on private networking, and has managed databases on the same account.

So this page compares Raff against Public Cloud, and shows the VPS line separately — because it is genuinely cheaper, and some readers should buy it.

Raff Technologies runs 15,000+ VMs for 3,000+ customers from us-east, with a 99.90% monthly uptime SLA backed by service credits, rated 4.5/5 on Trustpilot and 4.6/5 on G2. VMs run AMD EPYC with DDR5 ECC memory and NVMe storage, in two lines: General Purpose with shared vCPU from $4.99/month, and CPU-Optimized with dedicated vCPU from $15.99/month. Every plan includes a 3 Gbps port with unmetered transfer regardless of size, Daily or Weekly backup schedules, uncapped snapshots, firewall controls, private networking and full root access.

Beyond the VM, Raff sells managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey, ClickHouse and Kafka from $7.99/month, object storage at $7/month for 100 GB, managed Kubernetes with a free control plane, Functions that run up to 24 hours, IAM, and Raff Apps from $3/month.

OVHcloud VPS pricing vs Raff pricing

Both providers sell shared and dedicated vCPU, so there are two comparisons. OVHcloud's shared range is D2 Discovery; its dedicated ranges are B3, C3 and R3.

Shared vCPU

Raff is within a few percent of Public Cloud on shared vCPU — about 4% cheaper at the two smaller shapes and about 1% more at 4 vCPU / 8 GB — with more disk on every row.

Dedicated vCPU

Raff is 6% to 8% cheaper.

OVHcloud Public Cloud US prices read from us.ovhcloud.com on 2026-08-20. Monthly figures are the published hourly rate at 730 hours.

Port speed

Raff runs a 3 Gbps port on every plan, including the $4.99 entry. OVHcloud scales bandwidth with instance size:

On the small instances most projects start with, that is a thirty-fold difference in ceiling.

If you only care about price, buy the VPS

OVHcloud VPS-1 is $4.54/month — cheaper than any Raff plan, and cheaper than OVHcloud's own Public Cloud. If the monthly figure decides your purchase, buy it. This page will not argue otherwise.

Why is it so much cheaper than the same company's Public Cloud? Not because the hardware is worse — OVHcloud does not say what the hardware is. It is cheaper because it is a smaller product:

• No hourly billing. Monthly commitment only, where Public Cloud and Raff bill by the hour.
• One rolling 24-hour backup, not a retention window.
• It sits outside the platform. Managed databases, object storage and Kubernetes are Public Cloud products. A VPS does not get them beside it on the same private network.
• No published CPU specification. OVHcloud states the vCore count but not the processor, the generation, or whether cores are shared or dedicated. Every other provider in this comparison publishes at least the CPU family.

That last one is worth pausing on. It is not evidence of bad hardware — it is an absence of evidence, and you can verify the absence yourself on their pricing page. If knowing what you are running on matters, that is a reason to check before buying rather than a reason not to buy.

At $4.54 the VPS is a fair trade for a small self-managed server. It is simply not the same purchase as a cloud instance.

Backups

OVHcloud VPS includes a daily backup of the previous 24 hours — one day of history. A problem introduced on Monday and found on Wednesday is already past it. Premium backup starts at $1.40/month.

Raff includes a free backup and snapshot pool — 50 GB per account plus 10–15% of each VM's disk — with Daily and Weekly schedules, 1 to 365 day retention, and uncapped snapshots. Above the pool it is $0.06/GB-month.

OVHcloud VPS performance vs Raff

Raff has no current, matched benchmark against the VPS 2027 range, and this page will not estimate one. The available data is from May 2026 and compared a Raff 2 vCPU / 4 GB instance against an OVHcloud b3-16 Public Cloud instance with 4 vCores and 16 GB — a different product line, a different shape, and a single pass. That is not a basis for a claim about VPS 2027.

What can be said from published specifications:

Bandwidth ceiling is the measurable difference. Raff publishes 3 Gbps on every plan; OVHcloud publishes 100 Mbps to 4 Gbps depending on instance size, and only its largest instances exceed Raff's port. On the shapes most projects actually buy, the gap runs from 3x to 30x, and it does not depend on a benchmark to verify.

Storage architecture. OVHcloud attaches NVMe to the host. Raff runs distributed block storage across an NVMe cluster, so a write crosses the network and is replicated before it is acknowledged — slower for small synchronous writes, and the reason data is replicated rather than pinned to one machine, snapshots are taken at the storage layer, and a VM can change plan without being rebuilt.

Reliability commitment. Raff commits to 99.90% monthly uptime with service credits, documented in the service level agreement, running 15,000+ VMs from us-east.

If performance is your deciding factor, run your workload on both. OVHcloud bills monthly with no term, so the test is inexpensive.

OVHcloud vs Raff: features and reliability

Compute

OVHcloud VPS spans 2 to 8 vCores and 4 to 24 GB. Raff spans 1 to 16 vCPU and 1 to 32 GB across two lines, with CPU-Optimized offering dedicated vCPU from $15.99/month — OVHcloud's VPS line has no dedicated-vCPU equivalent, though its Public Cloud does. Raff resizes on demand: stop the VM, switch plan, restart, with the difference settled to the account balance and a resize API endpoint.

Networking

Raff includes a 3 Gbps port at every tier with unmetered transfer, private networking, VPC, firewall controls and site-to-site VPN gateways. OVHcloud includes unlimited traffic with a tier-dependent ceiling, anti-DDoS protection on every plan, and a global network that is genuinely one of the company's strongest assets.

Storage

Raff includes about twice the disk at each matched tier, and separates storage into VM disk, block volumes at $0.08/GiB-month, and S3-compatible object storage at $7/month for 100 GB with 1 TB of egress. OVHcloud sells object storage and block storage through its Public Cloud rather than the VPS product.

Support

Raff provides 24/7 human support through live chat, with a first response typically under 10 minutes. No bots triaging you first, and no support tier to buy: a single $4.99 VM reaches the same engineers as a hundred production machines.

OVHcloud's VPS support is documented as email-based assistance alongside a substantial guide library. For a self-managed VPS at $4.54/month that is a reasonable trade, and it is worth pricing the difference honestly rather than assuming one model suits everyone.

Platform

This is where the comparison turns, if it turns at all.

Raff sells the layers around the VM on the same account: managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey, ClickHouse and Kafka from $7.99/month reachable over private networking, S3-compatible object storage, Functions with a free tier that run up to 24 hours, managed Kubernetes with a free control plane, IAM with roles and audit logs, and Raff Apps from $3/month. Private traffic between them is unmetered and free.

OVHcloud has equivalents — managed databases, object storage, managed Kubernetes — but they live in Public Cloud, a separate product with its own pricing model, rather than beside the VPS you just bought. Assembling a VPS plus Public Cloud services is a different exercise from adding a database to an existing account.

The honest counter-argument remains strong here: a VPS-4 with 24 GB of RAM at $23.37 will run Postgres, Redis and your application together comfortably. It will. What you are then operating is backups with more than 24 hours of history, restore testing, failover and version upgrades — and at that price, many teams will decide that is a fair trade.

When you should choose OVHcloud over Raff

• The VPS line on price above all else — VPS-1 at $4.54/month undercuts every Raff plan and OVHcloud's own Public Cloud, if a simpler product suits you
• Users outside North America — European and global regions plus Local Zones in more than 15 cities, against Raff's single us-east
• Memory-heavy single servers — 24 GB at $23.37 has no Raff equivalent near that price
• Dedicated servers and bare metal — a deep dedicated range that Raff does not offer at all
• Anti-DDoS at every tier — included on all VPS plans as standard

When you should choose Raff over OVHcloud

• Backups with real retention — Daily and Weekly schedules with 1 to 365 day retention, against a single rolling 24-hour backup (VPS backup strategy)
• Egress-heavy applications — a 3 Gbps port on every plan against 100 Mbps on d2-2 and 250 Mbps on d2-4, a twelve to thirty-fold difference in ceiling
• More included disk — roughly twice the storage at each matched tier
• Database-backed products — managed PostgreSQL, MySQL, Valkey, ClickHouse and Kafka from $7.99/month on the same account over private networking (VPS for databases)
• Long-running serverless jobs — Raff Functions run up to 24 hours; nothing in the OVHcloud VPS product is equivalent
• 24/7 live support — chat to the same engineers at any account size, first response typically under 10 minutes, against email-based VPS support

Migrating from OVHcloud to Raff

1. Be clear which OVHcloud product you are on — if you run a VPS 2027 plan, Raff costs more and this migration is about backup retention, port ceiling and managed services, not price. If you run Public Cloud instances, Raff is cheaper at every class.
2. Check which VPS generation you are on — OVHcloud notes that VPS 2027 configurations have shifted, so an older plan may not map to the model with the same name.
3. Check your region requirement — Raff serves us-east only. European or Asian users will see added latency.
4. Right-size on utilisation — OVHcloud ships more cores at the upper tiers; Raff ships more disk. Measure what the workload uses rather than matching specifications.
5. Move data in order — files with rsync or SCP, then database dumps into managed Postgres or MySQL, then assets to object storage. Keep the OVHcloud VPS running throughout.
6. Cut over and cancel properly — lower DNS TTL beforehand, switch, then cancel the VPS in the OVHcloud control panel rather than leaving it idle.

About OVHcloud

OVHcloud is a French cloud provider founded in 1999 and headquartered in Roubaix, operating its own data centers and network across Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific. It offers VPS, dedicated servers, Public Cloud instances, managed Kubernetes, object storage and Local Zones, and is one of the largest cloud providers in Europe. See OVHcloud VPS for current plans and terms.

Conclusion: OVHcloud or Raff?

The honest split is not price against price — it is what stage the workload is at.

For a trial, a prototype, a staging box or a small static site, the OVHcloud VPS is enough. $4.54/month, unlimited traffic, a daily backup, and a server that works. Nothing on this page beats that for something you are still deciding about, and you should not pay production prices for a machine you might delete next week.

For production, the deciding factors stop being the monthly figure. They become: how far back your backups go, whether the port holds up when traffic arrives, whether you can attach a managed database without assembling a second product, and how fast someone answers at 3 AM. That is the comparison Raff is priced for:

• Price at production class — against OVHcloud Public Cloud, the equivalent product, Raff is level with Public Cloud on shared vCPU and 6% to 8% cheaper on dedicated, with more disk on most rows
• Backup history — 1 to 365 days of retention with Daily and Weekly schedules, against a single rolling 24-hour backup
• Port ceiling — a 3 Gbps port on every Raff plan, against 100 Mbps to 1 Gbps on the Public Cloud instances most projects buy
• Room to grow — managed databases from $7.99, object storage, Functions and Kubernetes on the same account and private network, rather than in a separate product

OVHcloud keeps the advantages that come with its scale: regions across three continents, Local Zones in more than 15 cities, a deep dedicated server range, and the cheapest entry price here.

The part that decides it: what happens when it works

Start on the OVHcloud VPS if the project might not survive the month. At $4.54 it costs almost nothing to find out, and that is a genuinely good reason.

But be clear what you are choosing, because the VPS line does not grow into Public Cloud — it is a separate product. When the project does work, and backups need to reach further back than yesterday, or traffic outgrows the port, or you need a managed database on a private network, you are not upgrading. You are migrating: a different product or a different provider, a data move, a DNS cutover, and a maintenance window you have to explain to someone.

On Raff the same account runs from $4.99 to 16 vCPU and 32 GB, and the managed database, object storage, Functions and Kubernetes are already there on the same private network. Growing means selecting a larger plan and restarting, not planning a migration.

So the question is not which server is cheaper this month. It is whether you want to spend a weekend migrating in six months — and if the answer is no, starting where you intend to end up is worth more than the difference between $4.54 and $17.99.

Raff runs 15,000+ VMs for 3,000+ customers and is rated 4.5/5 on Trustpilot, with a 99.90% monthly uptime SLA in writing.