VPS in the United States
A VPS in San Francisco, the United States, from $4 a month.
If your users are in North America, serve them from North America. Same prices as every other country, paid in crypto, no card and no ID. Billed by the hour, never more than the month, paid in crypto.
- $0.006 an hourcapped at $4 a month
- Ready in minutesusually ready within 15 minutes
- DDoS filteringon every server, no add-on
- No card, no IDpay in crypto from your balance
Who hosts in San Francisco
Why put a server in the United States?
If your users are in North America, serve them from North America. San Francisco has a physics floor of 6 ms to Los Angeles, 30 ms to Chicago, 30 ms to Mexico City and 41 ms to New York.
It is the same price as every other country, paid in crypto, with no card and no ID. That matters for builders outside the US who need a US address for an API, a store or a test, without handing over a card.
Be clear about the law: servers in the United States sit under US law, including the DMCA notice process. There is no single federal privacy law; rules are sector by sector, with FTC enforcement and a growing number of state laws. If you want EU rules instead, Amsterdam is one click away.
United States at a glance
- Server location
- San Francisco, United States
- Jurisdiction
- Not in the EU or EEA.
- Data protection
- No single federal privacy law. Federal rules are sector by sector (health, finance, children), with FTC enforcement and a growing number of state privacy laws.
- Main internet exchanges
- SIX Seattle370 networks
- Equinix Ashburn345 networks
- Any2West264 networks
- DE-CIX New York263 networks
- Closest to
- North America, especially the West Coast, with reach across the Pacific to Asia.
Exchange figures describe the country’s internet, not which exchanges your server connects to.
Latency from San Francisco
How close is San Francisco to your users?
The physics minimum, not a marketing number. Where another of our locations is clearly closer, we say so.
- Los Angeles6 ms
- Chicago30 ms
- Mexico City30 ms
- Toronto36 ms
- New York41 ms
- London86 msCloser: Netherlands, 4 ms
- Paris90 msCloser: Luxembourg, 3 ms
- Seoul90 msCloser: Japan, 12 ms
- Berlin91 msCloser: Germany, 4 ms
- Madrid93 msCloser: Luxembourg, 13 ms
Show all 26 cities
- Warsaw94 msCloser: Lithuania, 4 ms
- Rome100 msCloser: Bulgaria, 9 ms
- São Paulo104 ms
- Almaty108 msCloser: Pakistan, 11 ms
- Istanbul108 msCloser: Turkey, 0 ms
- Athens109 msCloser: Bulgaria, 5 ms
- Hong Kong111 msCloser: Singapore, 26 ms
- Sydney119 msCloser: Singapore, 63 ms
- Tel Aviv119 msCloser: Turkey, 11 ms
- Cairo120 msCloser: Turkey, 12 ms
- Lagos126 msCloser: Bulgaria, 45 ms
- Dubai130 msCloser: Pakistan, 20 ms
- Karachi130 msCloser: Pakistan, 11 ms
- Mumbai135 msCloser: Pakistan, 16 ms
- Jakarta139 msCloser: Singapore, 9 ms
- Johannesburg170 msCloser: Turkey, 75 ms
The fastest a round trip from San Francisco could ever be: light in fibre covers about 200 km per millisecond, over the straight-line distance. Real routes are longer and add equipment, so expect more. We only suggest another location when it saves at least 10 ms, and some neighbouring countries don’t connect directly, so a closer location can still be slower. Hourly billing makes it cheap to test both.
Plans in San Francisco
Every size, deployed in San Francisco.
Same price as every other country. Hourly never goes above the monthly cap, and a Keep year costs less than twelve months.
| Plan | vCPU | RAM | NVMe | Traffic | Hourly | Monthly cap | Keep a year | Deploy |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lite 2 | 2 | 2 GB | 40 GB NVMe | 1 TB | $0.006 | $4 | $40 | Deploy Lite 2 in San Francisco |
| Lite 6 | 6 | 6 GB | 100 GB NVMe | 2 TB | $0.012 | $8 | $80 | Deploy Lite 6 in San Francisco |
| Lite 8 | 8 | 8 GB | 160 GB NVMe | 3 TB | $0.018 | $12 | $120 | Deploy Lite 8 in San Francisco |
| Lite 16 | 16 | 16 GB | 320 GB NVMe | 4 TB | $0.03 | $20 | $220 | Deploy Lite 16 in San Francisco |
| Lite 32 | 16 | 32 GB | 640 GB NVMe | 6 TB | $0.06 | $40 | $440 | Deploy Lite 32 in San Francisco |
| Lite 64 | 24 | 64 GB | 1,280 GB NVMe | 8 TB | $0.12 | $80 | $880 | Deploy Lite 64 in San Francisco |
| Lite 96 | 32 | 96 GB | 1,920 GB NVMe | 10 TB | $0.18 | $120 | $1,320 | Deploy Lite 96 in San Francisco |
| Lite 128 | 40 | 128 GB | 2,560 GB NVMe | 12 TB | $0.24 | $160 | $1,760 | Deploy Lite 128 in San Francisco |
| Lite 192 | 48 | 192 GB | 3,840 GB NVMe | 14 TB | $0.36 | $240 | $2,640 | Deploy Lite 192 in San Francisco |
| Lite 256 | 64 | 256 GB | 5,120 GB NVMe | 16 TB | $0.48 | $320 | $3,520 | Deploy Lite 256 in San Francisco |
More ways to host in San Francisco
Pay for a year, get months free.
From $40 a year
Deploy a Keep 2 in San FranciscoPay once, keep the server.
From $140 once
Deploy a Forever Keep 1 in San Francisco32 TB of traffic a month.
From $8 a month
Deploy a Traffic Lite 2 in San FranciscoUp to 3 TB of NVMe storage.
From $10 a month
Deploy a Vault 2 in San FranciscoNVIDIA GPU slices, by the hour.
From $40 a month
Deploy a Forge L4 in San Francisco
Prices exclude VAT, which applies to EU consumers. Traffic counts outbound only, and the allowances of all your servers add up into one pool. Full pricing.
Good fits
What to run in San Francisco.
Three jobs that suit the United States, and the plan we would start each one on. Delete any time and billing stops.
A store or site for US customers
Eight vCPUs and 8 GB of RAM on the West Coast, a short hop from Los Angeles.
Lite 8$12/mo
Deploy Lite 8 in San FranciscoAn API next to US services
Keep the hop to US-based platforms short, on a Lite you pay for by the hour.
Lite 6$8/mo
Deploy Lite 6 in San FranciscoUS backups on a Vault
700 GB of NVMe storage and 10 TB of traffic on a Vault 2.
Vault 2$10/mo
Deploy Vault 2 in San Francisco
How it works
From payment to root in San Francisco.
No sales call, no paperwork. One crypto deposit funds every server you run, in any of our countries.
Create an account
An email address and a password, plus your country for VAT. No name, no phone number, no ID.
Add funds in crypto
From $20, in Bitcoin, Ethereum, USDT, USDC, Solana, BNB, XRP or Monero. Your first deposit picks up the launch bonus by itself.
Pick the plan in San Francisco
Choose an image, add your SSH key or take a root password, and deploy. Billing starts when the server is ready.
Log in and build
Your server is usually ready within 15 minutes. Full root access, an IPv4 address and DDoS filtering come with it.
United States questions
Before you pick San Francisco.
Is San Francisco good for users on the East Coast?
For most websites and APIs, yes: the physics floor is 41 ms to New York and 30 ms to Chicago. For fast-paced games or trading aimed at the East Coast, measure first. For Europe, Amsterdam is far closer (4 ms to London against 86 ms from here).
Which privacy law applies in the United States?
There is no single federal privacy law. Federal rules are sector by sector, such as health, finance and children, with the FTC acting against unfair or deceptive practices, and a growing number of states have their own consumer privacy laws.
Do US copyright rules apply to a server here?
Yes. Section 512 of the US Copyright Act, part of the DMCA, gives hosts a safe harbor when they act on valid copyright notices. Servers in the United States sit under US law.
Can I reach Latin America from San Francisco?
Mexico City has a physics floor of 30 ms. For São Paulo it is 104 ms; none of our locations is much closer.
Does a server here cost more than in other countries?
No. Every plan costs the same in all 15 of our countries, with the same traffic allowance, billed by the hour and never more than the monthly price.
Nearby countries
VPS in Iceland
VPS in Japan
VPS in the NetherlandsRun more than one country
One balance pays for servers anywhere we operate, at the same price. A second server in Iceland is the simplest backup plan there is.
Your server in San Francisco.One crypto payment away.
Lites from $4 a month, usually ready within 15 minutes. Pay by the hour, never more than the month.