Cheapest VPS you can pay for with crypto in Europe: $10 to $22 plans, by the day, no account

What cheap means here

Our cheapest servers are the European ones, and the European price is the same in Falkenstein, Nuremberg and Helsinki. The entry point is $10 a month for 2 shared vCPU, 2 GB of RAM and 40 GB of NVMe, and there are six more plans under $25 covering Arm, cost-optimised x86 and the newer x86 generation. Every one of them is a full KVM virtual machine with root access, a dedicated IPv4 and IPv6 address, 20 TB of outbound traffic a month, a browser console and the ability to reinstall any supported Linux image. There is no setup fee, no contract, and the price is identical whether you pay in Bitcoin, Monero, Ethereum, Solana or by card.

Two of these stand out on specification per dollar. BVCX23 at $11 doubles the RAM of BVX11 for one dollar more. BVCX33 at $16 and BVA21 at $20 both give 4 cores and 8 GB, which is enough for a Monero node, a Matrix homeserver with a few dozen users, or a small Docker host running a handful of services; the Arm plan has twice the disk.

What you give up at the low end

• Shared vCPU. Every plan in the table shares physical cores with other tenants. For web servers, bots, VPNs and nodes that is fine; sustained 100 percent CPU for hours will be throttled and is what the BVG dedicated plans (from $80) exist for.
• 2 GB of RAM on BVX11 and BVX12. Ubuntu 24.04 idles at a few hundred megabytes, so you have room for a web server, a database and a small application, but not for a Java service, a JavaScript build pipeline or a Bitcoin node with a large dbcache. Add swap on the NVMe or move up to a 4 GB plan.
• 40 GB of NVMe on the three smallest plans. A pruned Bitcoin node fits; a full one does not. A Monero node wants at least 160 GB of disk, so the smallest plans are out for that job.
• Arm compatibility on BVA11 and BVA21. The Ampere cores run aarch64. Ubuntu, Debian, Docker, Go, Rust, Node, Python, Nginx, PostgreSQL, Bitcoin Core and monerod all ship native Arm builds; some closed-source binaries, older game servers and x86-only Docker images do not. If you are unsure, rent a day of BVA11 for $0.40 and try it.
• Cost-optimised x86 (BVCX) is the budget tier: shared Intel or AMD cores with less clock than the BVX performance plans. The difference shows in single-thread speed, not in capability.
• The newer BVX12 generation costs more than BVX11 for the same memory and disk; you are paying for faster cores. At the cheap end BVX11 or BVCX23 is the rational choice unless you have measured a CPU bottleneck.

Prepaid by the day: the arithmetic

Prepaid servers are priced at the monthly rate divided by 30, multiplied by the number of days you choose, from 1 to 365. There is no subscription behind a crypto order and nothing on file to charge later; when the days run out the server is deleted unless you have extended it, and a reminder is emailed beforehand. That makes a cheap plan even cheaper for anything that does not need to run all month.

• BVX11 at $10 a month is about $0.33 a day: one day $0.33, three days $1.00, a week $2.33, 30 days $10.
• BVCX23 at $11: $0.37 a day, $2.57 a week.
• BVA21 at $20: $0.67 a day, $4.67 a week, which is a Monero node for a weekend of syncing tests.
• A year of BVX11 prepaid is $121.67 (365 days), paid once, with no renewals to remember until the reminder email next October.

The exact figure appears live on the configure page as you move the days slider, and an existing server can be extended from the access page by any number of days in any supported currency, so a server bought with Bitcoin can be extended with a card or with Monero.

Crypto minimums and very short rentals

Each coin has a minimum invoice amount of a few dollars, shown live at checkout, because tiny on-chain payments are impractical to process. Cards have a floor of $0.50. A single day of BVX11 at $0.33 is below both, and two days at $0.67 clears the card minimum but usually not the crypto one. In practice this means three choices for a very short box: pay by card for two or more days, pick a crypto term long enough that the invoice clears the coin’s minimum (typically a week or so of the $10 plan, less for larger plans), or choose a larger plan whose daily price is higher. For anything you intend to keep a month, the minimum never comes into play. Bitcoin confirms in 10 to 30 minutes; Monero, Ethereum and Solana in a few minutes; cards provision in about a minute.

Falkenstein, Nuremberg or Helsinki

All three European locations carry the same price, so the choice is about network position, jurisdiction and stock.

• Falkenstein, Germany: the default. Central European latency (Frankfurt 5 to 10 ms, London and Paris 15 to 25 ms, Warsaw 20 to 30 ms), the largest capacity, and usually everything in stock.
• Nuremberg, Germany: effectively interchangeable with Falkenstein, 3 ms away. Marginally better for Munich, Austria, Switzerland and northern Italy. Use it as the second site when you want two German locations.
• Helsinki, Finland: best for the Nordics, Baltics, Poland, Russia and Ukraine (Stockholm 8 to 12 ms, Moscow about 20 ms, Warsaw 22 to 35 ms), 10 to 20 ms further from Western Europe. Finland is an EU state outside the Five, Nine and Fourteen Eyes groupings, which is why privacy-minded buyers often prefer it even at equal cost.
• Stock: the cheapest plans sell out first. If the configure page shows your plan unavailable in one location, the other two are the same price and the same images.

# Pick by measurement: a day in each location is about a dollar in total.
for h in YOUR.FSN1.IP YOUR.NBG1.IP YOUR.HEL1.IP; do
  printf '%s: ' "$h"; ping -c 20 -q "$h" | tail -n 1
done

Keeping a cheap server useful

• Enable unattended security updates (Ubuntu does this by default) and a firewall before anything else listens; a $10 server gets scanned just as hard as a $1000 one.
• Add a 2 GB swap file on BVX11 so a memory spike degrades gracefully instead of invoking the OOM killer.
• Use the backups add-on only if you actually need restorable images; it is priced as a percentage of the plan, so it is cheap on a cheap plan, but it is also one more copy of your data.
• Set a calendar reminder a few days before expiry in addition to our email, especially for servers bought on an alias address you do not check daily.
• Do not run a Tor exit, a miner or a scanner. These get a cheap server terminated as quickly as an expensive one.

Which plan to pick

If $10 is the target, BVX11 does the job for a VPN, a static site, a bot or a jump host. If you can spend one more dollar, BVCX23 at $11 is the better machine. For 8 GB of RAM under $20, choose BVCX33 at $16 for x86 software or BVA21 at $20 for anything with Arm builds, which includes every node and most self-hosted services. Pick Falkenstein unless you have a Nordic audience or a jurisdiction preference, in which case Helsinki is the same price. Configure a server, set the days, and pay in Bitcoin, Monero or card; the access link follows the confirmation.