{"rid":"compute/layerstack","card":{"rid":"compute/layerstack","eid":"vpsbenchmarks","topic":"compute","slug":"layerstack","provider":"LayerStack","url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/layerstack","domain":"vpsbenchmarks.com","category":"cloud VM","tier":null,"verdict":"paid-only","vorder":3,"grp":"paid","confidence":"reported","binding":"none","identity_kind":"email","identity_basis":"defaulted","needs_card":null,"needs_phone":null,"needs_id":null,"needs_institution":null,"country":null,"crypto":null,"interfaces":null,"egress_metered":null,"per_object_bytes":null,"retention_days":null,"verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","verified_basis":"live","checked_on":"2026-10-22","stale_on":"2026-11-05","n_evidence":2,"usd_month":null,"usd_per_tb_month":null,"summary":"USD 28.06/month for R108 in Hong Kong, Singapore or Japan: 2 shared vCPUs, 4 GB RAM, 150 GB storage. The same price applies to the R108-HK and R108-TP varian...","duplicate_of":null,"n_unknown":9},"record":{"topic":"compute","slug":"layerstack","provider":"LayerStack","url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/layerstack","category":"cloud VM","free_tier":{"stated":"USD 28.06/month for R108 in Hong Kong, Singapore or Japan: 2 shared vCPUs, 4 GB RAM, 150 GB storage. The same price applies to the R108-HK and R108-TP variants; R208 is USD 53.80 with 4 cores, 12 GB and 250 GB. The page warns its plan list is not exhaustive, so this is the cheapest plan it has tested rather than the provider's floor.","unit":"GiB","metered_on":"wall-clock","source_url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/layerstack","read_on":"2026-10-22","notes":"none"},"per_object_cap":{"stated":"not applicable","bytes":null,"source_url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/layerstack","notes":null},"retention":{"stated":"not applicable","days":null,"source_url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/layerstack","notes":null},"egress":{"terms":"not published on the page read","metered":false,"free_allowance":null,"price_per_tb":null,"source_url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/layerstack"},"interface":["unknown"],"interface_detail":"inferred from the tooling the provider documents; not probed","tooling":"not stated on the page read","chaining":"USD 28.06 for 4 GB and 150 GB in Hong Kong or Singapore is the cheapest Asian-presence row, which matters for a crawler that needs a non-European source address. It is twice the price of Aruba for the same RAM, so the reason to take it is the location, not the machine","limits":[],"limits_note":"No transfer allowance and no port speed appear on the page read, so nothing here caps bytes. The plan list is explicitly partial, so even the price is a lower bound on what the provider sells.","binding":"none","binding_note":"No transfer allowance and no port speed appear on the page read, so nothing here caps bytes. The plan list is explicitly partial, so even the price is a lower bound on what the provider sells.","identity_cost":{"kind":"email","detail":"not stated","country":null},"reliability_note":"no reliability event recorded","confidence":"reported","evidence":[{"url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/layerstack","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"plan rows, transcribed and joined by me (unquoted values are not verbatim): [R108-HK] 2 4.0GB 150GB $28.06 / month, [R108] 2 4.0GB 150GB $28.06 / month, [R108-TP] 2 4.0GB 150GB $28.06 / month, [R208-HK] 4 12.0GB 250GB $53.80 / month"},{"url":"https://www.vpsbenchmarks.com/hosters/layerstack","date":"2026-10-22","proved":"'It has data centers in: - Hong Kong - Japan - Singapore'; the instance type reads 'vCPUs are shared in all General Purpose plans'"}],"verdict":"paid-only","verified_at":"2026-10-22T00:00:00.000Z","notes":"Found via vpsbenchmarks. Not in dossier/compute (searched: layerstack, no record). The benchmark page states twice that its list is not exhaustive, and R108 at USD 28.06 is unlikely to be a provider's entry plan, so the offer recorded here is explicitly the cheapest tested plan. would-settle: https://www.layerstack.com/en/pricing, which the page links as the provider page for the instance type.","extras":{"wave2":{"class":null,"free_tier_kind":"none","shape":{"vcpu":2,"ram_gib":4,"disk_gib":150,"gpu_class":null,"gpu_count":null}}}},"claims":[{"path":"$.free_tier.stated","kind":"free-quota","num":4,"unit":"GB","per":null,"currency":null,"usd":null,"fx_date":null,"parse":"ok"}],"unknown":[["$.egress.metered","egress-unknown"],["$.identity_cost.detail","not-stated"],["$.identity_cost.kind","identity-defaulted"],["$.interface","interface-unknown"],["$.per_object_cap.notes","process"],["$.per_object_cap.stated","not-applicable"],["$.reliability_note","none-observed"],["$.retention.notes","process"],["$.retention.stated","not-applicable"]],"history":[],"drift":[]}