# Cherry Servers review (2026): is it worth $3.5 a month? > Bare-metal and virtual servers billed hourly or on fixed terms Checked Nov 13, 2026 ยท graded Nov 13, 2026 by ToolGPA. Cherry Servers rents dedicated bare-metal servers and virtual servers (VPS and VDS) from data centers in Lithuania, the Netherlands, Germany, Sweden, the US and Singapore, with storage, backup and network add-ons. Billing can be hourly, fixed-term or spot, and the site lists 20+ payment methods including cryptocurrency. - **Category:** Web Hosting - **Made by:** Cherry Servers - **Website:** https://www.cherryservers.com - **Runs on:** Web - **Who should skip it:** Not for you if you want a managed server, as self-service plans are unmanaged. - **Facts last checked:** Nov 13, 2026 ## Pricing As of Nov 13, 2026, Cherry Servers is a paid product, starting at $3.5 per month for a 1 vCore Cloud VPS, or $0.018 per hour. - **Pricing model:** Paid - **Free plan:** None. - **Free trial:** None listed. | Plan | Price | What you get | | --- | --- | --- | | Virtual servers | $3.5 per month and up, for 1 vCore Cloud VPS, excluding VAT | VPS and VDS plans billed hourly (from $0.018 an hour) or on monthly to annual terms. Dedicated-core VDS plans reach 16 vCores and 72 GB RAM; 1 to 35 TB of free traffic. | | Dedicated servers | $0.098 per hour and up, billed hourly, excluding VAT | Bare-metal servers from $0.098 an hour on the pricing overview, managed by UI or API. A 15-day money-back guarantee applies to dedicated server plans. | Read from https://www.cherryservers.com/pricing on Nov 13, 2026. Prices change, so confirm with Cherry Servers before buying. ## Key features - **Bare-metal servers:** Dedicated, instant, custom and GPU servers are offered, with an average deployment time of 12 minutes listed. - **Virtual servers:** Cloud VPS, storage VPS, Cloud VDS, ARM VDS and Premium and Performance VDS plans deploy in about 3 minutes. - **Flexible billing:** Hourly, fixed-term and spot billing are listed, with 20+ payment methods including cryptocurrency. - **Storage and network add-ons:** Elastic block storage from $0.077 per GB a month, backup storage, floating IPs, public subnets and load balancers are sold separately. - **API and automation:** Servers can be managed through a UI or API, and a developer automation section is listed. - **Locations:** Servers can be deployed in Lithuania, Amsterdam, Frankfurt, Stockholm, Chicago and Singapore for virtual servers. ## Good for - Developers who need bare metal on hourly billing - Teams running blockchain nodes or game servers - Buyers who want to pay with cryptocurrency ## Worth knowing - Prices are quoted in US dollars excluding VAT, and the dedicated server hourly start differs slightly between pages ($0.091 in an FAQ, $0.098 on the overview). - The self-service plans are unmanaged infrastructure; the site points to sales engineers for custom setups. - Backup Storage is free for dedicated servers; other storage, IPs and load balancers are priced separately. - Monthly dedicated-server prices were not readable on the pages we checked. ## ToolGPA grades **GPA: 1.8 out of 4**, graded Nov 13, 2026. Cherry Servers rents virtual servers from $3.50 a month and bare-metal servers by the hour, with an API. The plans are unmanaged and storage, IPs and load balancers are priced separately. - **Value for money: B.** A 1 vCore Cloud VPS is $3.50 a month ex. VAT, inside the cheaper quarter. - **Free plan and trial: F.** Nothing free and no trial on the pages read, so you pay from day one. - **Features: C.** Bare-metal and virtual servers, hourly billing, add-ons and an API. Monthly dedicated prices were not readable. - **Ease of use: D.** Unmanaged servers that you set up and secure yourself. - **Platforms and integrations: B.** Web portal with an API and automation, but no phone or desktop app. These are ToolGPA's own grades. Graded from this listing, whose facts were read from Cherry Servers's own pages on 13 November 2026. Not based on using the product, and shorter than our full reviews. ## Where it stands among web hosts - Cherry Servers's GPA of 1.8 is higher than 29 of the 122 other web hosts we grade, and level with 19. - It stands best on value for money (B, above 79 of 122) and worst on free plan and trial (F, above 0). - Its paid plans start at $3.50 a month, against a middle price of $9.69 for the category: 19 of the 107 others that charge start lower. - On features, ease of use and platforms it scores 2.0 out of 4. 10 tools score higher and cost less. The category's chart of price against score: https://toolgpa.com/charts/web-hosting ## Keep it, or make your own? **Keep it.** To replace Cherry Servers you would be making connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. That is not a weekend's work, with an AI app builder or without one. That makes this kind of software worth paying for, not this one in particular: 74 of the 122 other web hosts grade higher. It costs $42 a year. - You could not: Connections to other products, each kept working as those products change. A judgement by ToolGPA from this listing, by rules that are the same for every tool. Nothing was built to test it. **Tags:** Public API, Workflow automation ## Alternatives - [Hetzner](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hetzner): German hosting: web hosting, cloud servers and dedicated servers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cherry-servers-vs-hetzner) - [Latitude.sh](https://toolgpa.com/tools/latitude-sh): Bare-metal servers, GPU clusters and VMs with hourly or monthly rates. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cherry-servers-vs-latitude-sh) - [Hostkey](https://toolgpa.com/tools/hostkey): Dedicated, GPU and VPS servers from European and US data centers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cherry-servers-vs-hostkey) - [Contabo](https://toolgpa.com/tools/contabo): Low-priced VPS and dedicated servers from a German host. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cherry-servers-vs-contabo) - [OVHcloud](https://toolgpa.com/tools/ovhcloud): VPS, public cloud, web hosting and dedicated servers. [Compare](https://toolgpa.com/compare/cherry-servers-vs-ovhcloud) ## Sources The prices, plans, platforms and features above were read from these pages on Nov 13, 2026: - https://www.cherryservers.com/pricing - https://www.cherryservers.com/pricing/virtual-servers - https://www.cherryservers.com/pricing/dedicated-servers - https://www.cherryservers.com/virtual-servers Page: https://toolgpa.com/tools/cherry-servers Listed by ToolGPA (toolgpa.com).