Less than half the price. Any size you want.
The same dedicated vCPU, RAM and disk you would buy from AWS Lightsail, DigitalOcean, Vultr or Linode — for up to 69% less. Sized to whatever shape you want, billed by the minute, and every GB reserved 1:1 on the host.
Choose a product
Cube is prepaid compute you control over SSH. Nest is managed web hosting on a fixed monthly or yearly plan.
Cubes from $2.92/moNo credit card to sign up
What each resource costs
Quoted per hour, charged per minute. Power a Cube off and vCPU and RAM stop billing immediately — only the disk it occupies keeps its per-GB rate, on the full disk size.
Common Cube sizes
Pick any vCPU, RAM and disk combination you like — these are only the popular presets, with the volume discount already applied.
| Size | vCPU | RAM | Disk | Volume discount | Per hour | Per month |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Sandbox | 1 | 1 GB | 10 GB | — | $0.004 | $2.92 |
| Micro | 1 | 2 GB | 20 GB | — | $0.007 | $5.11 |
| Small | 2 | 2 GB | 20 GB | — | $0.008 | $5.84 |
| Popular | 2 | 4 GB | 40 GB | — | $0.014 | $10.22 |
| Mid | 3 | 6 GB | 60 GB | 5% off | $0.01995 | $14.56 |
| Large | 4 | 8 GB | 80 GB | 5% off | $0.0266 | $19.42 |
| XL | 6 | 12 GB | 100 GB | 15% off | $0.03485 | $25.44 |
| XXL | 8 | 16 GB | 100 GB | 15% off | $0.04505 | $32.89 |
| 3XL | 12 | 24 GB | 100 GB | 20% off | $0.0616 | $44.97 |
| Max | 16 | 32 GB | 100 GB | 20% off | $0.0808 | $58.98 |
Per-month estimate = hourly rate × 730 hours, running 24/7. Power off a Cube and disk continues at the same per-GB rate while vCPU and RAM stop billing entirely. 4 OS images to start from.
At Popular (2 vCPU · 4 GB): Krova $10.22/mo vs Lightsail $20 — 51% less. Same vCPU, RAM and disk.
Pick by workload
Not sure what size to start with — pick the workload that matches.
Tiers unlock as you grow
There's nothing to subscribe to. Every new space starts on the entry tier and climbs the ladder on its own — activate the space, then spend as you go — unlocking more Cubes at once and bigger sizes. Tiers set your limits; usage is the only thing you pay for.
Tiers are limits, not bills — they cost nothing. You're charged only for the compute and storage your Cubes actually use.
Launch a CubeEvery GB is reserved 1:1
Budget hosting leans on overselling — more RAM and disk sold than the host physically has, on the bet that customers won't use it. When workloads spike, you pay for that bet: thrashed RAM, evicted pages, throttled I/O, and an app that slows down exactly when it is busiest.
Krova Cloud reserves what you provision. Your 4 GB Cube holds 4 GB of host RAM to itself, and a 40 GB disk occupies 40 GB of real storage — no thin provisioning, no surprise out-of-disk errors.
RAM
Reserved 1:1 against host RAM whenever your Cube is running, and dedicated to it alone. Never oversold.
Disk
Real bytes on real disk, not a quota against a shared pool — held whether the Cube runs or not, which is why disk is the one thing that keeps billing after you power off.
How this compares
Every figure read from the provider's own pricing page and stamped with the date we read it, with the arithmetic shown.
Questions about the bill
Is there a subscription or monthly plan?
No. Krova Cloud is prepaid pay-as-you-go — there's nothing to subscribe to. You load credit whenever you like and it's drawn down by the minute while your Cubes run, and stopped Cubes and backups pay only for the disk they keep. Add a card to enable one-click top-ups and optional auto-recharge (we top you back up when your balance gets low). Tiers (which set how many Cubes you can run at once, how many backups you keep, and how often snapshots are taken) unlock automatically as you spend — they're limits, not bills, and cost nothing. Cube size is never gated: every tier can run up to 16 vCPU, 32 GB RAM and 100 GB disk. Need more headroom? Email support and we'll review your use case and lift your limits where it makes sense.
How does billing work — what if I only run a Cube for 5 minutes?
Rates are quoted per hour, but you're billed by the minute. Run a Cube for 5 minutes and you pay for 5 minutes, not a full hour — there's no rounding up. Power off a Cube and compute charges (vCPU + RAM) stop immediately; only the disk it occupies on the host keeps billing, at the same per-GB rate. Credit is consumed as you go, and you can watch the balance in real time.
What happens when I power off a Cube?
Cube shuts down gracefully and its disk is kept exactly as you left it — nothing on it is lost. Compute charges (vCPU + RAM) stop immediately; only the disk component of the Cube's hourly rate continues, since the rootfs still occupies host disk. Starting it again works just like powering on any server.
What happens when my credit runs out?
When your balance can't cover the next hour, every running Cube is automatically powered off — its disk is kept, so you can start it again once you top up. We email you a low-balance warning about five days before you'd run out, based on your current usage, and again when the balance reaches zero. Storage still costs us money while your balance sits at zero, so if a space stays unfunded for seven days we permanently delete its backups and the disks of its powered-off Cubes. We send reminders before that happens, and adding credit at any point before the deletion date keeps everything.
Why is Krova Cloud cheaper than AWS, DigitalOcean, or Linode?
Because the architecture is cheaper to run and we pass that on. Lightweight Firecracker microVMs pack far more efficiently onto bare metal we own and operate ourselves — no reseller margin in the middle — and we put the savings into the rate card instead of into a sales team. You get the same real, dedicated resources, reserved 1:1 with no overselling, typically at less than half the price of an equivalent VPS. Same machine. A very different bill.
No subscription. Pay by the minute.
Prepaid credit, drawn down by the minute while a Cube runs — stopped Cubes and backups pay only for the disk they keep. Signing up is free. Claim $5 in free credit — one-time, per account, and nothing is charged for it.