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It pairs with a licence channel at about USD 14.17 a month, which puts the honest all-in figure near USD 33.21 rather than 19.02.","limits":[],"limits_note":"the page prints four cycles: monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and yearly, where quarterly and half-yearly are the monthly price multiplied with no discount and only the yearly payment applies -16.7 per cent. The 20 per cent VAT rate appears in the vendor's own worked example rather than as a line on the plan. No byte quota, port speed, request rate or object cap is printed, which is why limits[] is empty rather than padded with a kind the vocabulary does not cover.","binding":"none","binding_note":"nothing in the seven-kind vocabulary binds, because the vendor publishes no quota of any kind. The constraint that decides the row is commercial rather than a limit: Windows installs at no charge but the key is the buyer's, and a licence channel costs more per month than the machine.","identity_cost":{"kind":"card","detail":"an account and a payment method at order","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event observed the yearly discount is illustrated on the entry plan and the figure for Plus is arithmetic on the stated percentage rather than a printed total.","confidence":"documented","confidence_note":"the plan, its shape, the EUR 16.99 tax-inclusive price, the four cycles and the bring-your-own-licence sentence are read from the vendor page on 2026-10-26. Two derived numbers are weaker and labelled as arithmetic: the yearly equivalent of EUR 15.84 a month and the USD conversion at 1.1193. The 20 per cent VAT rate is the vendor's own example, not a printed line on this plan.","evidence":[{"url":"https://by-hoster.net/en/cheap-windows-vps","date":"2026-10-26","proved":"quoted: 'Windows - Plus EUR 16.99/mo (8 vCores, 16 GB, 250 GB)', beside 'Windows - Core EUR 9.99/mo (4 vCores, 8 GB, 100 GB)' and 'Windows - Max EUR 28.99/mo (16 vCores, 32 GB, 500 GB)'"},{"url":"https://by-hoster.net/en/cheap-windows-vps","date":"2026-10-26","proved":"quoted on the licence: 'the Microsoft licence is not included: we install the system you choose at checkout at no extra charge, but we neither supply nor resell a licence'; the string BYOL does not occur and this sentence is the bring-your-own statement"},{"url":"https://by-hoster.net/en/cheap-windows-vps","date":"2026-10-26","proved":"quoted on cycles: 'Monthly, quarterly, half-yearly and yearly. Quarterly and half-yearly are simply the monthly price multiplied, with no discount: only yearly payment applies -16.7%'"},{"url":"https://by-hoster.net/en/cheap-windows-vps","date":"2026-10-26","proved":"quoted on tax: 'our prices are shown with tax included' and the worked example 'An ex-VAT price of EUR 6.99 comes to EUR 8.39 including VAT', which is a 20 per cent rate applied by the vendor itself"}],"verdict":"qualifies-with-caveat","verified_at":"2026-10-26T13:30:00.000Z","price_per_tb_month":null,"notes":"The EUR 16.99 is tax-inclusive, so it is not comparable with an ex-VAT figure without adjusting, and the USD 19.02 conversion inherits that basis. The yearly figure is EUR 14.15 a month equivalent, or USD 15.84, and the yearly invoice is EUR 169.83, which is USD 190.09 at 1.1193; the vendor illustrates the 16.7 per cent discount on its entry plan rather than on Plus, so the Plus figure is arithmetic on a printed percentage. The licence gate is the honest caveat: at USD 14.17 a month for a 16-core Standard licence channel the all-in cost is near USD 33.21, which is roughly what a licence-printed row costs.","extras":{"shape":{"vcpu":8,"ram_gib":16,"disk_gib":250},"billing_model":"monthly, quarterly, half-yearly or yearly","term":"none monthly; yearly at 16.7 per cent off","monthly_eur":16.99,"monthly_usd":19.02,"yearly_monthly_eur":14.153,"yearly_monthly_usd":15.84,"yearly_first_payment_eur":169.83,"yearly_first_payment_usd":190.09,"setup_fee_eur":0,"vat_included":true,"vat_rate_example":0.2,"windows_licence":"bring your own: installed at checkout at no charge, licence neither supplied nor resold","windows_images":"buyer's choice at checkout, named per order rather than listed on the page","fx":"EUR 1 = USD 1.1193, ECB reference rate, 2026-10-23","plan_url":"https://by-hoster.net/en/cheap-windows-vps"}},"claims":[{"path":"$.extras.monthly_usd","kind":"price","num":19.02,"unit":null,"per":"month","currency":"USD","usd":19.02,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"},{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":16,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}