--- title: "Google Cloud Alternative: CloudBlast vs Google Cloud Prices (October 2026)" description: "Google Cloud e2-medium costs $24.46 (€21.87) a month, CloudBlast VMA21 €4.80. Specs, price per vCPU, traffic, hourly billing and DDoS compared, checked October 9, 2026." url: "https://cloudblast.io/google-cloud-alternative" language: "en-US" --- Google Cloud alternative # Google Cloud alternative: CloudBlast vs Google Cloud The closest Google Cloud plan to a 2 vCPU, 4 GB server is e2-medium (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM) at $24.46 (€21.87) a month. CloudBlast's VMA21 (2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 30 GB NVMe) costs €4.80 a month, 78% less, billed by the hour with DDoS protection included. Prices checked on October 9, 2026 [Google Cloud pricing page](https://cloud.google.com/products/compute/pricing/general-purpose) [Deploy a VMA21](https://console.cloudblast.io/create/server) ## Monthly price, comparable plans CloudBlast VMA21 against Google Cloud e2-medium, the closest plans by vCPU and RAM. Euro prices excluding VAT, checked on October 9, 2026. [Get started](https://console.cloudblast.io/create/server) ### €4.80 ### €21.87 ## CloudBlast vs Google Cloud: specs and prices The Google Cloud plan closest to 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM against the smallest CloudBlast plan with at least the same vCPU and RAM. List prices excluding VAT, checked on October 9, 2026. | Feature | CloudBlast | Google Cloud | | --- | --- | --- | | Plan | VMA21 | e2-medium | | vCPU | 2 | 2 | | RAM | 4 GB | 4 GB | | Storage | 30 GB NVMe | Not published | | Price per month | €4.80 (€0.0077/h) | $24.46 (€21.87) | | Price per vCPU | €2.40 | €10.93 | | Price per GB of RAM | €1.20 | €5.47 | | Monthly traffic | 5 TB (1 TB in Hong Kong) | Not published | | Port speed | 10 Gbps | Not published | | CPU | AMD EPYC | Not published | | Hourly billing | Yes | Yes | | Minimum term | None | None | | DDoS protection | Included | Basic only | | IPv4 address included | Yes | No | | IPv6 | Yes, a /64 per server | Yes | | Datacenter locations | 4 | 43 | ### Cheapest plans Each provider's lowest-priced regular plan, checked on October 9, 2026. | Provider | Plan | Specs | Price per month | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | CloudBlast | VMA21 | 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 30 GB NVMe | €4.80 | | Google Cloud | e2-micro | 2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM | $6.11 (€5.46) | ## Where CloudBlast is the better choice - 78% cheaper for a comparable server: €4.80 against $24.46 (€21.87) a month. - DDoS protection included on every plan, with up to 2.5 Tbps of scrubbing capacity. - An IPv4 address is included. Google Cloud charges for it separately. ## Where Google Cloud is the better choice - More datacenter locations: 43 against CloudBlast's 4. - Managed databases. - Managed Kubernetes. - S3-compatible object storage. - Managed load balancers. - Plans with dedicated CPU cores. - Bare metal servers. - GPU servers. - An official Terraform provider. - A free tier. - A longer track record, founded in 2008. ## CloudBlast vs Google Cloud: common questions ### Is CloudBlast cheaper than Google Cloud? Yes. For a comparable server, CloudBlast's VMA21 costs €4.80 a month and Google Cloud's e2-medium costs $24.46 (€21.87), so CloudBlast is 78% cheaper (list prices checked on October 9, 2026). ### What is the CloudBlast equivalent of Google Cloud's e2-medium? CloudBlast's VMA21: 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 30 GB NVMe, €4.80 a month or €0.0077 an hour, with 5 TB of traffic a month outside Hong Kong. ### Does Google Cloud bill by the hour? Yes, Google Cloud bills by the hour. So does CloudBlast, on every plan, capped at the monthly price. ### Does Google Cloud include DDoS protection? Only basic filtering. CloudBlast includes always-on mitigation with up to 2.5 Tbps of scrubbing capacity on every plan. ### How do I move from Google Cloud to CloudBlast? Deploy a CloudBlast server in the location closest to your users, copy your data across with rsync or a backup restore, test it, then point your DNS at the new IP. With hourly billing, running both servers side by side for a few days costs very little. ## How we compared Prices are the list prices on Google Cloud's own pricing page on October 9, 2026, for its standard Linux VPS, excluding VAT. We compare the plan closest to 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM, and the cheapest plan, against the smallest CloudBlast plan with at least the same vCPU and RAM. Prices in other currencies are converted to euro at the European Central Bank reference rate of October 8, 2026. CloudBlast prices are from cloudblast.io/pricing. Where a provider advertises an introductory price that needs a long prepayment, we compare its regular price and show the introductory one next to it. Spotted a price that has changed? [Tell us and we will update this page.](https://cloudblast.io/contact) ### Sources - [cloud.google.com/products/compute/pricing/general-purpose](https://cloud.google.com/products/compute/pricing/general-purpose) - [cloud.google.com/compute/vm-instance-pricing](https://cloud.google.com/compute/vm-instance-pricing) - [cloud.google.com/vpc/network-pricing](https://cloud.google.com/vpc/network-pricing) - [cloud.google.com/compute/disks-image-pricing](https://cloud.google.com/compute/disks-image-pricing) - [docs.cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features](https://docs.cloud.google.com/free/docs/free-cloud-features) - [cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/extending-per-second-billing-in-google](https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/gcp/extending-per-second-billing-in-google) - [en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google\_Cloud\_Platform](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Cloud_Platform) - [cloudblast.io/pricing](https://cloudblast.io/pricing) Google Cloud alternative ## We'll help you migrate to our amazing cloud. 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