Best Unmetered Bandwidth VPS Hosting in 2026

"Unmetered" is the most abused word in hosting. It is technically true on almost every plan that advertises it, and it means something different on every one of them, because the number that decides how much data you can actually move is not the traffic policy. It is the port speed.

Here is the arithmetic that the marketing skips. A 10 Gbps port running flat out for a month moves roughly 3,240 TB. A 1 Gbps port moves about 324 TB. A 200 Mbit port moves about 64 TB, and a 100 Mbit port about 32 TB. So "unmetered on 100 Mbit" is a 32 TB plan with better wording, and a metered 20 TB allowance on a 10 Gbps port is the faster product even though it has a number attached. Anyone comparing an unmetered plan against a metered one without checking both ports is comparing nothing.

This article ranks ten providers on what their bandwidth policy does in practice: the port, the fair use clause, what happens when you cross a threshold, and whether the meter you avoided on traffic shows up somewhere else on the invoice. We are CloudBlast, we are first on this list, and our own caveat is stated in our own entry.

How We Ranked These Providers

Port speed first. Unmetered on a narrow pipe is a small plan. We treat the port as the real capacity number and the traffic policy as a modifier.

What the fair use clause actually says. Most unmetered plans reserve the right to act on sustained utilisation. The question is at what percentage, and whether the answer is published or discovered.

What happens when you cross it. Throttling to a lower speed is survivable. Overage billing is expensive. Suspension is a business risk. These are three very different consequences and providers rarely lead with which one applies.

Where else the meter is. Traffic is one of several possible meters. Snapshots, backups, block storage, extra IPv4 and load balancers all bill separately on plenty of platforms that proudly do not bill for traffic.

Whether it is inbound, outbound or both. Almost everybody gives inbound away. Outbound is the number that matters, and a few providers quote a combined figure that flatters the plan.

Quick Comparison

Indicative entry-tier terms as of September 2026. "Effective ceiling" is what the port can physically move in a month at 100% utilisation, which no plan expects you to reach.

1. CloudBlast

Best for: genuinely high egress workloads that need both an unmetered policy and a port wide enough for it to mean something.

Entry plan: VMA11, 1 AMD EPYC core, 3 GB RAM, 20 GB NVMe, €3.60/mo or €0.0049/h.

Traffic is unmetered in Amsterdam and Salt Lake City on a 10 Gbps port, on every plan, including the €3.60 entry tier. The combination is the point. Plenty of hosts offer unmetered traffic and plenty offer a fast port, and the two together at this price is unusual, because it requires owning the transit relationship rather than reselling somebody's allowance.

What that changes is which workloads become viable on a cheap box. A package mirror, a media library, an off-site backup target, a game server pushing constant state, a self-hosted video service: on a metered provider at $0.01/GiB, 5 TB of egress a month is roughly $50 on top of a $6 instance. Here it is zero on top of €3.60, and the invoice does not move when a release goes viral.

Our honest caveat is Hong Kong. It is capped, from 500 GB a month on the VMA11 up to 3 TB on the VMA81, because APAC transit genuinely costs several times what European transit costs. We would rather publish the cap than advertise unlimited and have an awkward conversation later. Any provider claiming unlimited traffic in Hong Kong at a budget price is metering you somewhere else or has not thought it through.

The rest of the stack is the same in all three regions: AMD EPYC on all eight plans, NVMe throughout, always-on DDoS mitigation with up to 2.5 Tbps of scrubbing capacity included, hourly billing from €0.0049/h, a public API and an MCP server. Add-ons that other hosts use to claw the money back are priced plainly: backups €0.09/GB, block storage €0.15/GB, extra IPv4 €2.50/mo.

What we like: unmetered on a 10 Gbps port rather than a narrow one, same policy on every plan, no overage line on the invoice, DDoS included so attack traffic is not your problem to pay for.

What to watch: Hong Kong is metered, not unmetered. Three regions, not thirty. Sustained saturation of a 10 Gbps port on a €3.60 plan will start a conversation, as it would anywhere.

2. OVHcloud

Best for: unmetered traffic from a provider that owns its own backbone, if you can live with the port.

OVHcloud owns its data centres and its network, which is the structural reason it can offer unmetered traffic on every VPS plan and keep doing it while others introduce meters. Entry plans run around $4.20/mo for 1 vCPU, 2 GB and 20 GB of SSD.

The port is the whole story. Lower tiers are typically 100 Mbit to a few hundred, rising to 1 or 2 Gbps on larger plans. That means no overage bill is possible, and it also means your throughput ceiling is set at signup and cannot be exceeded. For a site serving pages, that is completely fine. For a backup target or a media origin, work out the transfer time on 100 Mbit before you commit, because 32 TB a month sounds generous until you need 500 GB moved in an hour.

What we like: unmetered on every plan with no overage possible, own backbone, EU data sovereignty, stable pricing.

What to watch: narrow ports on entry tiers, clunky control panel, no hourly billing, provisioning can be slow.

3. netcup

Best for: German-hosted boxes with a wide shared uplink and a lot of disk.

netcup gives unmetered traffic on a 2.5 Gbps shared uplink, which is a better bandwidth story than most of this list and comes attached to genuinely generous hardware: a VPS 1000 G11 is roughly 4 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 256 GB of SSD for about €9.66/mo.

The word doing the work is "shared". The uplink is not dedicated to your instance, so sustained throughput depends on what your neighbours are doing. In practice it performs well, and it is a different guarantee from a dedicated port. Billing is the other friction point: monthly or annual contracts, sometimes a setup fee, and voucher codes that make the real price whatever you found that month.

What we like: unmetered on a 2.5 Gbps shared uplink, excellent resource allocation, German data centres, good uptime record.

What to watch: shared uplink rather than a dedicated port, contract terms and setup fees, voucher-dependent pricing, mostly German-language support.

4. Hostwinds

Best for: unmetered US bandwidth with a managed option and a support team that answers.

Hostwinds offers unmetered transfer on most VPS plans out of Dallas and Seattle, from around $5/mo, typically on a 1 Gbps port. In the American market, where nearly everyone meters, that policy is the reason to be on this list.

The fair use clause is the thing to read. Sustained heavy utilisation triggers an account review rather than an automatic bill, which is more predictable than overage and less predictable than a hard throttle, because the outcome depends on a conversation. Performance is ordinary, the API is basic and the panel is dated. This is a traditional host with a good bandwidth policy.

What we like: unmetered on most plans, managed tier available, responsive support, hourly billing offered.

What to watch: account review rather than a published threshold, modest CPU performance, two locations, upsells at checkout.

5. BuyVM

Best for: cheap unmetered boxes with enormous cheap block storage attached.

BuyVM built its reputation on two things: unmetered gigabit on plans that cost a few dollars a month, and block storage slabs priced far below what mainstream clouds charge. For a media archive, a seedbox-style workload or an off-site backup target, that pairing is hard to beat on price.

The policy is honest about being a shared resource. Sustained saturation is met with a throttle rather than an invoice, which is the right consequence if your priority is a predictable bill. Stock is the practical problem: popular plans sell out and stay out, so buying one is partly a matter of timing. The panel is functional, not modern, and there is no meaningful managed layer.

What we like: unmetered gigabit at a very low price, extremely cheap block storage, throttle instead of overage billing, DDoS filtering available.

What to watch: frequent stock shortages, shared throughput in practice, minimal automation, small location list.

6. GreenCloud

Best for: unmetered plans in Asia-Pacific locations where unmetered is genuinely rare.

GreenCloud sells unmetered options on select plans across a location list that includes several APAC cities, which matters because the economics that force caps in that region force them on almost everybody. If you need volume out of Singapore, Tokyo or Hong Kong without an egress meter running, the shortlist is short and this is on it.

Read each plan individually rather than the brand. Some are unmetered, some carry large allowances, and the port varies. Crossing a threshold typically means a speed reduction rather than a bill. Performance is fine for the price and the platform is a budget one, so treat it as a bandwidth product rather than a compute product.

What we like: unmetered options in APAC, throttle rather than overage, decent price for the traffic, KVM plans with NVMe on some tiers.

What to watch: terms differ plan by plan, variable performance, budget-tier support, no serious API.

7. Contabo

Best for: high volume at a low price when 200 Mbit is fast enough, which is more often than people assume.

Contabo does not claim unmetered. It includes 32 TB and throttles beyond it rather than billing, on a 200 Mbit port. That is honest, and the port is the actual constraint: 200 Mbit sustained for a month is about 64 TB, so the 32 TB allowance sits at roughly half of what the pipe could physically deliver.

For the money this remains extraordinary value on everything except network speed: Cloud VPS 10 is 3 vCPU, 8 GB of RAM and 75 GB of NVMe for $4.95/mo. If your workload is bulk transfer where total volume matters more than transfer rate, that is a good trade. If a user is waiting on the other end of the download, it is not.

What we like: 32 TB included with a throttle rather than an overage bill, no renewal increase, unmatched RAM and disk per euro.

What to watch: 200 Mbit port, no hourly billing, variable I/O, slow support.

8. InterServer

Best for: a fast port with a straightforward allowance, from a company that owns its data centre.

InterServer is metered rather than unmetered, and it earns a place here because the allowance is generous relative to the price and the port is not artificially narrowed. Slices run roughly $6 each for 1 core, 2 GB of RAM and 30 GB of storage, on gigabit, out of its own Secaucus facility or Los Angeles.

The reason to consider a metered plan in an unmetered roundup is predictability of speed. A published allowance on a gigabit port tells you exactly what you get, where an unmetered plan on an undisclosed port tells you nothing. Overage is billed, so the risk profile is the opposite of a throttled plan: your site stays fast and your invoice moves.

What we like: owns its facility, gigabit ports, no renewal price games, clear allowance.

What to watch: metered with billed overage, dated panel, weak API, two locations.

9. Time4VPS

Best for: large European allowances on annual terms, when total volume matters more than anything else.

Time4VPS runs Lithuanian infrastructure and sells plans with large included allowances on gigabit ports, at prices that are competitive when you commit annually. For a European backup target or an archive that moves a lot of data on a schedule, the value is real.

Two caveats. The pricing that looks best is annual prepay, so the flexibility is gone. And the location list is one country, whatever the marketing implies, so if you need a server somewhere specific this is not the product. Overage is billed rather than throttled.

What we like: large allowances, gigabit ports, low annual pricing, straightforward terms.

What to watch: Lithuanian infrastructure only, annual prepay for the best rates, billed overage, basic automation.

10. HostKey

Best for: unmetered plans in specific European and Asian locations, including bare metal when a VPS is not enough.

HostKey sells VPS, dedicated servers and GPU boxes across locations including the Netherlands, Finland, Germany, Turkey and the US, with unmetered options on selected plans. The useful part is the range: if a VPS port is not wide enough for what you are doing, the same provider will sell you a dedicated machine with a bigger one, which shortens the migration when a workload outgrows its plan.

Ports on unmetered plans vary from 100 Mbit to 1 Gbps depending on the tier, so the speed is again the real cap. Pricing is quoted per configuration rather than as a tidy ladder, and provisioning on custom builds can take time.

What we like: unmetered options across several countries, VPS through to bare metal and GPU, upgrade path without changing vendor.

What to watch: port speed varies by plan, pricing is configuration-dependent, provisioning delays on custom hardware.

What "Unmetered" Actually Means

Four terms get used interchangeably and mean four different things.

Unmetered. No counter on your traffic. Your ceiling is the port and the fair use clause. Best case here is a wide port with a published fair use position, worst case is a narrow port and a clause that says whatever support decides it says.

Unlimited. Marketing for unmetered, usually attached to a narrower port and a longer terms-of-service page. Treat the word as a prompt to go and find the port speed.

Included allowance. A stated number of TB, then a consequence. Hetzner includes 20 TB on EU instances, Contabo 32 TB, DigitalOcean 1 TB pooled. This is often the most honest model, because the number is checkable.

Metered. Pay per GB, sometimes after a free tier. Predictable to model and unpredictable to budget, since the bill scales with your traffic rather than your capacity.

The one to be careful with is unmetered on a narrow port, because it advertises the absence of a limit while enforcing a stricter one than the plans that publish numbers.

The Arithmetic Nobody Does

Multiply the port speed by the month and you get the ceiling. Then take the realistic fraction.

Nothing sustains 100% for a month, so the right-hand column is the useful one. It also shows why the comparison people make is usually backwards: a metered 20 TB allowance on a 10 Gbps port serves a traffic spike far better than an unmetered 100 Mbit plan, even though only one of them has a limit written on it. Spikes are where narrow ports fail, and spikes are what you actually bought headroom for.

How to Verify a Provider's Claim Before You Commit

1. Find the port speed on the plan page. If it is not published, ask support before buying. A provider that will not state a port speed has told you what the port speed is.
2. Read the acceptable use policy, not the marketing page. Search it for "sustained", "fair use", "95th percentile" and "excessive". The presence of a percentile means you are on a burstable commit, which is fine and is not unmetered.
3. Run iperf3 in both directions against a public endpoint near your users, immediately after deploying. Compare the result with the advertised port. An hour of a €0.005/h instance costs half a cent.
4. Test a sustained transfer, not a burst. Many plans deliver full speed for thirty seconds and settle lower. Push 50 GB and watch the rate curve.
5. Check what else is metered. Snapshots, backups, block storage, extra IPv4 and load balancers. A plan with free traffic and a metered everything-else is not necessarily cheaper.
6. Confirm inbound and outbound separately. Some quoted figures are combined, which flatters the plan by roughly the ratio of your upload to your download.

Frequently Asked Questions

The Verdict

CloudBlast if you want unmetered traffic on a port wide enough for the word to mean something, on AMD EPYC and NVMe from €3.60/mo. OVHcloud for unmetered on every plan from a network owner, if the entry port is fast enough for you. netcup for a 2.5 Gbps shared uplink and a lot of disk. Hostwinds for unmetered in the US with support attached. BuyVM for cheap unmetered gigabit and very cheap block storage. Contabo for bulk volume when transfer rate does not matter.

The general rule is simple. Read the port before the policy, and if the port is not published, that is your answer.