If you’re specifically just into Virtual Private Servers, you may want to look at Contabo as an alternative from most cloud providers like AWS, Azure, Alibaba, GCP, Oracle Cloud and Huawei.
Almost all Cloud Providers pricing are “pay-as-you-go” by the seconds, minute or hourly basis but Contabo packages are fixed monthly.
Comparing the packages (CPU, RAM, Storage and Traffic) over the prices compared, Contabo is more cheaper and practical if you will commit on a monthly basis.
If you’re constrained with a budget of lower than $5 than maybe chose from the other cloud vendors. But with just a small add up with cost, Contabo is way more advisable to buy.
See the links and some screenshots taken.
There could be changes in prices from the screenshots taken from the time of this post.
AWS (Lightsail) have these pricing details
https://aws.amazon.com/lightsail/pricing/
If you need highly configurable environments and instances with consistently high CPU performance for applications such as video encoding or HPC applications, AWS recommend you use Amazon EC2.
You may want to checkout Azure pricing here:
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/linux/
https://azure.microsoft.com/en-us/pricing/details/virtual-machines/windows/
Alibaba Cloud pricing
https://www.alibabacloud.com/campaign/lightspace
Oracle Cloud pricing:
https://www.oracle.com/ph/cloud/price-list.html
Google Cloud compute engine pricing:
https://cloud.google.com/compute/all-pricing
Huawei pricing:
https://www.huaweicloud.com/intl/en-us/pricing/index.html#/ecs
These Cloud Vendors except Contabo also provides offer free trials so you can test your use cases.