Server cost in India at a glance
The figures below are our own published rupee prices, because they are the ones we can vouch for line by line. Every price excludes 18% GST and, for VPS and VDS, covers one 30-day period.
| Server type | What you get | Price (excl. GST) | Suits |
|---|---|---|---|
| KVM VPS | 2–16 fair-share vCPU, 4–32 GB RAM, 40–240 GB NVMe, 5 TB transfer | ₹674 to ₹5,017 per 30 days | Websites, apps, small databases, test servers |
| VDS | 4 or 8 pinned physical cores, 16 or 32 GB RAM, NVMe, 10 TB transfer | ₹3,576 or ₹6,908 per 30 days | Steady CPU-heavy work that cannot share cores |
| Windows VDS | As above, with the Windows Server licence included | ₹4,499 or ₹9,199 per 30 days | Windows applications on dedicated cores |
| Dedicated server | A whole physical machine, unmetered port | ₹14,499 to ₹51,999 a month | Large databases, storage, full hardware control |
| GPU server | RTX 4090/L4, L40S/A6000 or A100/H100 class cards | Quoted per build | AI inference, fine-tuning and training |
The rest of this guide explains what sits behind each line, and the costs that are easy to miss: licences, bandwidth, backups, IP addresses, GST and, if you buy hardware, power and rack space.
VPS server price in India
A virtual private server is a virtual machine with its own kernel, reserved RAM and NVMe storage, sharing the physical CPU fairly with other tenants. It is the cheapest way to get root access to a server, and enough for most business websites and small applications.
| Plan | vCPU | RAM | NVMe | Per 30 days (excl. GST) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Starter | 2 | 4 GB | 40 GB | ₹674 |
| Standard | 4 | 8 GB | 80 GB | ₹1,348 |
| Performance | 8 | 16 GB | 160 GB | ₹2,696 |
| Power | 16 | 32 GB | 240 GB | ₹5,017 |
Every plan includes 5 TB of transfer, one public IPv4 address, an IPv6 /64 and reverse DNS you set yourself. Traffic between your own servers in the same region is free, so splitting a web server and a database server across two smaller plans does not add a bandwidth bill.
If you are unsure which size you need, start small: an upgrade is charged pro rata for the rest of the period, while a downgrade gives no credit for the period you are in. Our guide on how much RAM a VPS needs helps with sizing.
VDS: when dedicated cores are worth paying for
A VDS gives you whole physical cores pinned to your machine rather than a share of them. You pay for that: VDS 4, with 4 cores, 16 GB RAM and 240 GB NVMe, is ₹3,576, against ₹1,348 for a 4-vCPU VPS. VDS 8, with 8 cores, 32 GB RAM and 400 GB NVMe, is ₹6,908. Both include 10 TB of transfer.
The premium makes sense when the CPU is busy most of the day, as with build servers, game servers, busy databases or video processing, and when performance has to be predictable. For a website that is idle most of the time, a VPS is the better value.
The Windows VDS prices show what a Windows Server licence adds: ₹4,499 against ₹3,576 for VDS 4, and ₹9,199 against ₹6,908 for VDS 8, so ₹923 and ₹2,291 a period respectively.
Dedicated server price in India per month
A dedicated server is a whole physical machine that nobody else uses. Our prices are the same in Mumbai and Delhi NCR, and the operating system you choose does not change the hardware price.
| Configuration | CPU | RAM | Storage | Per month (excl. GST) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| DS-Entry | 8 cores / 16 threads | 32 GB | 2 × 960 GB NVMe | ₹14,499 |
| DS-Compute | 64 cores | 128 GB | 4 × 1.92 TB NVMe | ₹40,699 |
| DS-Storage | 16 cores | 64 GB | 12 × 16 TB HDD (192 TB raw) | ₹51,999 |
What the price includes matters as much as the number. Ours covers the hardware, the operating system, unmetered transfer, DDoS filtering, IPMI access, 24×7 remote hands and 4-hour hardware replacement. Control-panel licences, extra IPv4 addresses, managed administration and off-site backup storage are extra. When comparing quotes, check each of these; a lower monthly figure may leave out remote hands or a hardware replacement commitment.
Dedicated servers are ordered by enquiry. Stock builds are delivered in 2–4 hours during working hours; custom builds are quoted within a working day and delivered in 1–3 working days.
GPU server cost in India
GPU servers have no fixed price list because the card, its memory and supply all vary. We quote each build within one working day, in rupees with no forex markup and excluding 18% GST. The builds fall into three classes:
- Inference: RTX 4090 or L4 cards with 24 GB of memory.
- Fine-tuning: L40S or A6000 cards with 48 GB.
- Training: A100 or H100 cards with 80 GB.
The bigger question is whether to rent a GPU by the month at all. Hourly cloud GPUs from the large cloud platforms (we do not bill by the hour) are cheaper for short bursts of work. Once a card is busy for more than roughly 200–300 hours a month, a monthly GPU server usually works out cheaper. If you already own a card, bring-your-own-card colocation is quoted too. There is no refund once a GPU build is provisioned, so settle the specification first. More on this in GPU server hosting.
Software licences: cPanel and Windows Server
The server price is rarely the whole bill. Two licences come up most often.
cPanel is licensed per month by the number of accounts you host. Its published prices, in US dollars and excluding VAT, are:
| cPanel tier | Accounts | Per month (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Solo | 1 | $29.99 |
| Admin | Up to 5 | $35.99 |
| Pro | Up to 30 | $53.99 |
| Premier | Up to 100 | $69.99 |
Premier is the only tier offered for metal and dedicated servers, and each extra account costs $0.49. cPanel says new pricing applies to orders and renewals from 16 December 2026, so check the current figure before you budget. On our servers, cPanel, Plesk or CyberPanel is billed at the vendor's price with no markup. For a single site, the cPanel licence can cost more than the VPS underneath it, which is worth knowing before you choose it over a free panel. See what cPanel is for the alternatives.
Windows Server 2025 is licensed per core. Microsoft's suggested prices are $1,176 for Standard and $6,771 for Datacenter, each covering 16 core licences, and prices vary by country. Renting avoids that up-front cost: our Windows VDS plans include the licence, and dedicated Windows servers include Windows Server 2019 or 2022 for the first 180 days, after which you bring your own licence or it is billed at the Microsoft SPLA rate.
Buying your own server vs renting
Buying a server swaps a monthly bill for a large up-front payment, and the running costs do not disappear. We have not put a rupee figure on hardware, because it depends heavily on the configuration and is usually quoted rather than listed.
If you buy, the machine still needs somewhere to live. With colocation you rent space, power, cooling and network connectivity in a third-party data centre, but you buy, configure and maintain the hardware yourself. Colocation is priced by the rack or cabinet, cage or floor area, and the total also depends on how much power you draw, how many power distribution units you use, your bandwidth, and support incidents and the support contract, including remote hands when the facility's staff do the hands-on work for you.
Power is a lasting cost rather than a falling one. Uptime Institute's 2025 global survey found that average data-centre power efficiency (PUE) has barely changed for six years, so the overhead of powering and cooling a server is not shrinking. Keeping a server in the office instead moves that cost onto your own electricity bill, without a data centre's redundant power and network.
| Buy and colocate | Rent a dedicated server | |
|---|---|---|
| Up-front cost | Hardware purchase | None beyond the first month |
| Monthly cost | Rack space, power, bandwidth, remote hands | One price that includes these |
| Hardware failure | You source and fit the part | Replaced by the provider |
| Licences | Bought separately | OS included (Windows for the first 180 days); panels at vendor cost |
| Upgrading | Buy new hardware | Order a different configuration |
Buying tends to make sense for organisations that already run hardware, have staff to maintain it and expect to keep a machine busy for years. For most businesses, renting is simpler to budget.
Hidden server costs: GST, bandwidth, backups and IPs
- GST. Our prices exclude GST, and 18% is added at checkout. The ₹674 VPS therefore costs ₹795.32 with GST, and the ₹14,499 dedicated server ₹17,108.82. Our guide to GST on web hosting explains how it applies.
- Bandwidth overage. Transfer beyond the plan's allowance is ₹150 per TB, billed on the next invoice. You get an email at 80% and 100% of the allowance, and traffic is not throttled.
- Backups. Snapshots are ₹5 per GB per month, but a snapshot is not an off-server backup. Off-server backups for a VPS are an add-on with no published price, so ask for a quote; daily backups are included only on Web & cPanel, WordPress and reseller hosting plans, not on VPS, VDS or dedicated servers.
- More storage. Extra NVMe is ₹10 per GB per month.
- Extra IPv4 addresses. ₹319 a month each.
- Someone to run it. If you want us to look after the server for you, managed support is ₹9,999 a month, which is best weighed against the cost of your own staff's time.
Add-ons taken mid-period are charged pro rata for the rest of the period.
How server billing works
Our VPS and VDS servers are billed in 30-day periods, paid in advance from a prepaid rupee wallet. The first 30 days are charged when you order, and the listed price is the price of one period. A renewal invoice is raised 3 days before the period ends and, with auto-renew on by default, paid from the wallet. You can renew ahead for 1, 3, 6 or 12 periods, though there is no discount for doing so.
Two terms matter for budgeting. Deleting a server early does not refund the rest of the period, so even a short test costs a full 30 days. And if a renewal is not paid, the server is suspended 2 days after the due date and deleted 7 days after that. There are no setup fees and no free trial, and the 7-day money-back guarantee does not cover VPS, VDS or dedicated servers.
Which server should you budget for?
- A business website or a few small apps: a VPS from ₹674 to ₹1,348 per 30 days.
- A busy shop, a database or several sites behind cPanel: a larger VPS, plus the panel licence.
- Constant CPU load or Windows software: a VDS from ₹3,576, or ₹4,499 with Windows.
- Large databases, storage or full hardware control: a dedicated server from ₹14,499 a month.
- AI work: another provider's hourly cloud GPUs for bursts, and a quoted GPU server once a card is busy for more than about 200–300 hours a month.
Whatever you choose, add GST, licences, backups and, if no one on your team can look after a server, managed support before comparing totals.
Prices are as published on 15 November 2026 and exclude GST. Third-party licence prices are in US dollars and change; check the vendor before you budget.
Sources (checked )
- cPanel: cPanel Pricing
- Microsoft: Windows Server 2025 pricing
- Supermicro: What Is Colocation?
- TechTarget: What is a colocation facility (colo)?
- Uptime Institute: Uptime Institute Global Data Center Survey 2025