Varied pricing options
Pick a pricing plan to fit your need
You can choose predefined sizes and costs from our IBM Cloud® Virtual Servers for Classic Infrastructure offerings in hourly or monthly billing cycles.
Virtual server instances (VSIs)
Dedicated servers
Dedicated servers
Take full advantage of our single-tenant offering with rapid provisioning for further control and flexibility in VSI deployments, up to 56 cores and 484 GB RAM and monthly or hourly options.
Transient servers
Transient servers
Ideal for the development and testing of applications and other nonproduction workloads that don’t require constant uptime, transient servers are deprovisioned on a first-on, first-off basis.
Reserved servers
Reserved servers
Ideal for sustained workloads and enterprise-level challenges, a set of up to 20 VMs can be reserved in advance for guaranteed capacity in the data center of your choice. Choose a 1- or 3-year term.
Dedicated hosts
Dedicated hosts
Single-tenant dedicated hosts help control workload placement and support network throughputs of up to 20 Gbps. View core, RAM and local storage consumption for maximum control of workload management.
Profiles
Balanced
Balanced
Best for common cloud workloads that require a balance of performance and scalability, balanced profiles with network-attached storage yield higher performance because resources aren’t oversubscribed.
Compute
Compute
Compute profiles are best for moderate to high web-traffic workloads, such as workloads with intensive CPU demands, including production batch processing and front-end web servers.
Memory
Memory
Memory profiles are best for memory-intensive workloads, such as large memory-caching workloads, intensive database applications or in-memory and real-time analytics workloads.
Additional features
Explore virtual server resources
Autoscaling
Scale your cloud. Deploy or cancel servers with ease.
Network and bandwidth
Get unlimited bandwidth between IBM Cloud data centers.
System administration
Get reporting, OS reloads, remote reboot, monitoring.
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