After checking prices for cloud server at the end of 2016, I thought it was again a good idea to update the price coparison table. Thankfully the job was not that hard thanks to the open source community, which had already done the comparison.

Deffinitely there are some changes, with storage increasing.

In any case, I did tried Scaleway this year. And found it a bit lacking of features compared to DigitalOcean - backups, domain management. Some of the other features do exist, but you pay extra which causes the overall value to increase.

Pricing source: https://gist.github.com/justjanne/205cc548148829078d4bf2fd394f50ae

Server Price Breakdown: DigitalOcean, Amazon AWS LightSail, Vultr, Linode, OVH, Hetzner, Scaleway/Online.net:
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$5/mo
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| Provider               | Type | RAM   | Cores | Storage    | Transfer | Network | Price |
| ---------------------- | ---- | ----- | ----- | ---------- | -------- | ------- | ----- |
| LightSail              |  vps | 512MB |     1 |   20GB SSD |      1TB |   1000M | 5.00$ |
| DO                     |  vps | 512MB |     1 |   20GB SSD |      1TB |   1000M | 5.00$ |
| VULTR                  |  vps |   1GB |     1 |   25GB SSD |      1TB |   1000M | 2.50$ |
| Linode                 |  vps |   1GB |     1 |   20GB SSD |      1TB |   1000M | 5.00$ |
| Hetzner                |  vps |   1GB |     1 |   25GB SSD |      2TB |   1000M | 5.19$ |
| OVH                    |  vps |   2GB |     1 |   10GB SSD |     10TB |    100M | 3.80$ |
| Scaleway               |  vps |   2GB |     2 |   50GB SSD |      ∞TB |    200M | 3.26$ |
| Scaleway (ARM)         |  vps |   2GB |     2 |   50GB SSD |      ∞TB |    200M | 3.26$ |
| Scaleway               | dedi |   2GB |     4 |   50GB SSD |      ∞TB |    200M | 3.26$ |

$10/mo
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| Provider               | Type | RAM   | Cores | Storage    | Transfer | Network |
| ---------------------- | ---- | ----- | ----- | ---------- | -------- | ------- |
| LightSail              |  vps |   1GB |     1 |   30GB SSD |      2TB |   1000M |
| DO                     |  vps |   1GB |     1 |   30GB SSD |      2TB |   1000M |
| VULTR                  |  vps |   2GB |     1 |   40GB SSD |      2TB |   1000M |
| Linode                 |  vps |   2GB |     1 |   30GB SSD |      2TB |   1000M |
| Hetzner                |  vps |   2GB |     2 |   50GB SSD |      5TB |   1000M |
| OVH                    |  vps |   4GB |     1 |   20GB SSD |     10TB |    100M |
| Kimsufi                | dedi |   2GB |     2 |  500GB HDD |      ∞TB |    100M |
| Scaleway               |  vps |   8GB |     8 |  200GB SSD |      ∞TB |    300M |
| Online.net             | dedi |   4GB |     2 |  120GB SSD |      ∞TB |   1000M |

$20/mo
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| Provider               | Type | RAM   | Cores | Storage    | Transfer | Network |
| ---------------------- | ---- | ----- | ----- | ---------- | -------- | ------- |
| LightSail              |  vps |   2GB |     1 |   40GB SSD |      3TB |   1000M |
| DO                     |  vps |   2GB |     2 |   40GB SSD |      3TB |   1000M |
| VULTR                  |  vps |   4GB |     2 |   60GB SSD |      3TB |   1000M |
| Linode                 |  vps |   4GB |     2 |   48GB SSD |      3TB |   1000M |
| Hetzner                |  vps |   4GB |     2 |  100GB SSD |      8TB |   1000M |
| OVH                    |  vps |   8GB |     2 |   40GB SSD |     10TB |    100M |
| Kimsufi                | dedi |   4GB |     2 |    1TB HDD |      ∞TB |    100M |
| Scaleway               | dedi |  16GB |     8 |   50GB SSD |      ∞TB |    500M |
| Online.net             | dedi |  16GB |     8 |  250GB SSD |      ∞TB |   1000M |

$40/mo
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| Provider               | Type | RAM   | Cores | Storage    | Transfer | Network |
| ---------------------- | ---- | ----- | ----- | ---------- | -------- | ------- |
| LightSail              |  vps |   4GB |     2 |   60GB SSD |      4TB |   1000M |
| DO                     |  vps |   4GB |     2 |   60GB SSD |      4TB |   1000M |
| VULTR                  |  vps |   8GB |     4 |  100GB SSD |      4TB |   1000M |
| Linode                 |  vps |   8GB |     4 |   96GB SSD |      4TB |   1000M |
| OVH                    |  vps |  30GB |     2 |  100GB SSD |     10TB |    100M |
| Hetzner                |  vps |  16GB |     4 |  400GB SSD |     20TB |   1000M |
| Kimsufi                | dedi |  16GB |     8 |    2TB HDD |      ∞TB |    100M |
| Scaleway               | dedi |  32GB |     8 |   50GB SSD |      ∞TB |    800M |
| Online.net             | dedi |  32GB |     8 |  750GB SSD |      ∞TB |   1000M |

$80/mo
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| Provider               | Type | RAM   | Cores | Storage    | Transfer | Network |
| ---------------------- | ---- | ----- | ----- | ---------- | -------- | ------- |
| LightSail              |  vps |   8GB |     2 |   80GB SSD |      5TB |   1000M |
| DO                     |  vps |   8GB |     4 |   80GB SSD |      5TB |   1000M |
| VULTR                  |  vps |  16GB |     6 |  200GB SSD |      5TB |   1000M |
| Linode                 |  vps |  12GB |     6 |  192GB SSD |      8TB |   1000M |
| OVH                    |  vps |  60GB |     4 |  200GB SSD |     10TB |    100M |
| Hetzner                |  vps |  32GB |     8 |  600GB SSD |     30TB |   1000M |
| Hetzner                | dedi |  64GB |     8 | 1024GB SSD |     30TB |   1000M |
| SoYouStart             | dedi |  64GB |     6 |    3TB HDD |      ∞TB |    250M |
| Scaleway               | dedi |  32GB |     8 |   50GB SSD |      ∞TB |    800M |
| Online.net             | dedi |  64GB |     8 | 1500GB SSD |      ∞TB |   1000M |

Links:

https://www.kimsufi.com

To compare with only a year before see this article:

http://lesichkov.co.uk/article/20161218062536085767/end-of-2016-vps-hosting-prices