OVHcloud renumbered its VPS line: where the Value and Advance prices went

Big hosts reprice in two ways: quietly bump a number, or retire the plan names people learned to search for. OVHcloud has just done the second. The virtual server range on ovhcloud.com/en/vps is now branded VPS 2027, with four generically numbered plans — VPS-1 through VPS-4 — where the older Value and Advance names used to sit. If you bookmarked a price for an "Advance-2" in March, the page no longer speaks that language.

What the new lineup costs (checked 2026-10-07)

Published monthly prices on the US-market page, stated verbatim:

• VPS-1 — from $4.54/month: 2 vCores, 4 GB RAM, 40 GB NVMe SSD, 500 Mbps, unlimited traffic, daily backup of the previous 24 h included.
• VPS-2 — from $8.50/month: 4 vCores, 8 GB RAM, 75 GB NVMe SSD, 1 Gbps.
• VPS-3 — from $12.32/month: 6 vCores, 12 GB RAM, 100 GB NVMe SSD, 2 Gbps.
• VPS-4 — from $23.37/month: 8 vCores, 24 GB RAM, 200 GB NVMe SSD, 3 Gbps.

The same page now sells add-ons à la carte: premium automatic backup from $1.40/month and snapshots from $0.40/month — options that used to be bundled differently on the old Advance tiers.

What we still track on the old names

Our OVHcloud menu retains the legacy plans, with their two-tier monthly pricing:

• VLE-2 Value VPS — 1 vCPU, 2 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD — $3.40 first month, $4.20/mo on renewal (a 24% step-up, shock score 1.24).
• Advance-2 VPS — 2 vCPU, 8 GB RAM, 80 GB — $8.40 first month, $10.40/mo renewal (1.24).
• Advance-4 VPS — 4 vCPU, 16 GB RAM, 160 GB — $16.40 first month, $21.40/mo renewal (1.31, flagged "steep").
• Kimsufi KS-1 (OVH's budget arm) — Atom CPU, 4 GB RAM, 500 GB HDD — $4.00 first month, $13.50/mo renewal. That is a shock score of 3.38 — the biggest monthly jump of anything we track on OVHcloud. The Kimsufi site itself now advertises its KS range "from US$11.10", so even the entry floor has climbed well above that headline $4.
• Game Dedi EG-3 dedicated — Ryzen 5, 32 GB RAM, NVMe — $44 first month, $52/mo renewal (1.18, "fair").

Mapping old to new

On paper the new names map roughly as: VPS-1 (2 vCPU/4 GB) sits near where Advance-2's 8 GB tier started at $8.40 — but VPS-1 is cheaper with less RAM. VPS-2 (4 vCPU/8 GB, $8.50) is the closest successor to Advance-2's spec at almost the identical first-month price. The catch: "from $X/month" on the new cards behaves like every OVHcloud headline — it is the first-payment price, and OVHcloud has always renewed these plans higher. The old Advance-4 data proves the pattern at +30% after month one. Price the new range on its renewal column, not its hero figure — and check the current OVHcloud deals list, where renewal shock is the whole score.

How OVHcloud's renewals compare

OVHcloud is not the worst offender we track, only the most structural: the Contabo two-tier jump runs about 39% and HostUS's MVZ line still posts a headline monthly rate that nearly doubles on renewal. Flat-renewal counter-examples are Netcup and RackNerd (annual plans renew at the signup rate). Until OVHcloud publishes renewal numbers next to the 2027 "from" prices, assume the gap and budget for it.

New-lineup prices verified verbatim on ovhcloud.com and kimsufi.com on 2026-10-07; legacy-plan figures are the values recorded in the OneYearDeal catalogue — see each deal card for the numbers we hold.