How we calculate our pricing claims

A Cube is billed per resource, per hour, and metered by the minute. There is no instance type and no plan: you pick vCPU, RAM and disk independently and pay for what those come to.

• $0.001 per vCPU, per hour
• $0.0025 per GB of RAM, per hour
• $0.00005 per GB of disk, per hour

RAM and disk are reserved 1:1 — there is no overselling and no thin provisioning, so the GB you are billed for is a GB that exists on the host. Powering a Cube off stops the vCPU and RAM charges immediately; the disk keeps billing at the same per-GB rate, because it is still occupying real storage.

The hourly cost of a Cube is:

hourly = ((vcpu × 0.001) + (ramGb × 0.0025) + (diskGb × 0.00005)) × tierMultiplier

Monthly figures on this site are hourly × 730 — 730 hours being the average month (8,760 hours ÷ 12). We use 730 rather than 720 or 744 so a monthly quote is neither flattering nor pessimistic depending on which month you read it in. Because billing is per-minute and usage-based, a monthly figure is an illustration of a Cube left running 24/7, never a subscription you are committed to.

Larger Cubes get a lower effective rate through a multiplier applied to the whole hourly cost. The tiers are:

Competitor prices were researched on 31 May 2026 and re-checked on 2 August 2026 against the live vendor pricing pages. For each size we take the cheapest plan from the named providers that meets or exceeds the same vCPU, RAM and disk, and compare it with what the formula above produces for the identical specification.

The headline “up to 69%” is the largest value in the final column — Math.max over the rows above, not a figure chosen for effect. The smallest is 51%, which is the honest floor of the same set and the reason the other claim is worded “less than half” rather than “69% cheaper”.

A price comparison is only useful if you know what it does not cover. This one deliberately excludes:

• Bandwidth and egress. Every provider prices transfer differently, and a Cube's allowance is not represented in the table above. A workload that moves a lot of data may compare differently.
• Committed-use and annual discounts. The competitor prices are list, on-demand, monthly. Several providers discount for annual prepayment; Krova Cloud has no commitment to discount, because there is no subscription.
• Free tiers and promotional credit. Introductory credit distorts the first months of any comparison, so none is counted on either side.
• Regional price variation. Competitor pricing can differ by region; we compare against their published US pricing.
• Features that are not like-for-like. Every competitor instance in this table comes with a public IPv4 address, which a Cube deliberately does not have. That is a genuine architectural difference, not a cost saving we are claiming credit for — see how isolation works.

If you find a size where this arithmetic does not hold, or a competitor price that has moved since we last checked, please tell us — the numbers above are generated, so correcting the source corrects every page that quotes it.

You do not have to take the table on trust. The live rates are served from the public API and need no authentication:

curl https://krova.cloud/api/v1/pricing

Apply the formula in section 2 to any specification and you will get the same figure the pricing page quotes and the same figure you are billed. The competitor prices are the vendors' own published list prices on the dates given above.