Google Cloud Alternative: CloudBlast vs Google Cloud Prices (October 2026)

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Monthly price, comparable plans

CloudBlast VMA21 against Google Cloud e2-medium, the closest plans by vCPU and RAM. Euro prices excluding VAT, checked on October 9, 2026.

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€4.80

€21.87

CloudBlast vs Google Cloud: specs and prices

The Google Cloud plan closest to 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM against the smallest CloudBlast plan with at least the same vCPU and RAM. List prices excluding VAT, checked on October 9, 2026.

Feature	CloudBlast	Google Cloud
Plan	VMA21	e2-medium
vCPU	2	2
RAM	4 GB	4 GB
Storage	30 GB NVMe	Not published
Price per month	€4.80 (€0.0077/h)	$24.46 (€21.87)
Price per vCPU	€2.40	€10.93
Price per GB of RAM	€1.20	€5.47
Monthly traffic	5 TB (1 TB in Hong Kong)	Not published
Port speed	10 Gbps	Not published
CPU	AMD EPYC	Not published
Hourly billing	Yes	Yes
Minimum term	None	None
DDoS protection	Included	Basic only
IPv4 address included	Yes	No
IPv6	Yes, a /64 per server	Yes
Datacenter locations	4	43

Cheapest plans

Each provider's lowest-priced regular plan, checked on October 9, 2026.

Provider	Plan	Specs	Price per month
CloudBlast	VMA21	2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 30 GB NVMe	€4.80
Google Cloud	e2-micro	2 vCPU, 1 GB RAM	$6.11 (€5.46)

Where CloudBlast is the better choice

78% cheaper for a comparable server: €4.80 against $24.46 (€21.87) a month.
DDoS protection included on every plan, with up to 2.5 Tbps of scrubbing capacity.
An IPv4 address is included. Google Cloud charges for it separately.

Where Google Cloud is the better choice

More datacenter locations: 43 against CloudBlast's 4.
Managed databases.
Managed Kubernetes.
S3-compatible object storage.
Managed load balancers.
Plans with dedicated CPU cores.
Bare metal servers.
GPU servers.
An official Terraform provider.
A free tier.
A longer track record, founded in 2008.

CloudBlast vs Google Cloud: common questions

Is CloudBlast cheaper than Google Cloud?

Yes. For a comparable server, CloudBlast's VMA21 costs €4.80 a month and Google Cloud's e2-medium costs $24.46 (€21.87), so CloudBlast is 78% cheaper (list prices checked on October 9, 2026).

What is the CloudBlast equivalent of Google Cloud's e2-medium?

CloudBlast's VMA21: 2 vCPU, 4 GB RAM, 30 GB NVMe, €4.80 a month or €0.0077 an hour, with 5 TB of traffic a month outside Hong Kong.

Does Google Cloud bill by the hour?

Yes, Google Cloud bills by the hour. So does CloudBlast, on every plan, capped at the monthly price.

Does Google Cloud include DDoS protection?

Only basic filtering. CloudBlast includes always-on mitigation with up to 2.5 Tbps of scrubbing capacity on every plan.

How do I move from Google Cloud to CloudBlast?

Deploy a CloudBlast server in the location closest to your users, copy your data across with rsync or a backup restore, test it, then point your DNS at the new IP. With hourly billing, running both servers side by side for a few days costs very little.

How we compared

Prices are the list prices on Google Cloud's own pricing page on October 9, 2026, for its standard Linux VPS, excluding VAT. We compare the plan closest to 2 vCPU and 4 GB of RAM, and the cheapest plan, against the smallest CloudBlast plan with at least the same vCPU and RAM. Prices in other currencies are converted to euro at the European Central Bank reference rate of October 8, 2026. CloudBlast prices are from cloudblast.io/pricing. Where a provider advertises an introductory price that needs a long prepayment, we compare its regular price and show the introductory one next to it.

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