Cheapest VPS for Discord Bot

The hardware requirements for hosting a Discord bot are extremely low and therefore the range of suitable VPSs is among the cheapest. The bot may be coded in NodeJS, Python, Perl or any other scripting language, and a database like MySQL may be used to store permanent data across sessions. Let's analyze the hardware requirements.

• CPU: Assuming that most operations performed by the bot are API calls toward Discord itself or toward third-party endpoints, a single Intel Xeon core would be capable of running multiple instances of the script, concurrently. This will hold true unless you plan to use the bot for more CPU-intensive tasks, like transcoding audio or video or processing data with neural networks.
• RAM: Most interpreted scripts rarely consume more than 200 MB of RAM, and a small MySQL database can fit in just 500 MB as well. Unless you plan for millions of database records, a VPS with 2 GB of RAM should suffice and have memory to spare for the rest of the operating system.
• Disk: 10 GB on spinning rust is the minimum viable storage size for a small bot with a small database. If you think you'll need more, costs will rise accordingly.
• Network: Network latency and speed are presumably not that important unless you can clearly identify why they would be. If this is the correct assumption for your use case, a mere 100 Mbps hosted in any location on Earth will allow you to significantly cut costs. However, you still probably need one IPv4 address to connect to most API endpoints, as IPv6 is not yet universally supported.
• Virtualization: KVM and LXC are both viable options for a VPS that simply runs a bot and possibly a database. Most often, people prefer KVM over LXC due to its better flexibility and stronger security isolation, but for a simple Discord bot this distinction may not be significant.

Recommendations from the database

Here are some matches currently found in the database that satisfy all the requirements listed above. You can search for more VPSs using the form on the sidebar. All results are dynamically generated from the database, and the monthly prices are obtained by dividing the annual prices by 12. Note that not all providers may offer monthly billing terms.