QuantVPS Pricing 2026: All 10 Plans, Standard vs Plus

Key Takeaways

• QuantVPS has 10 plans across two families: Standard (AMD EPYC, DDR4) from $29.99 to $299.99 a month, and Plus (AMD Ryzen, DDR5, automatic backups) from $39.99 to $399.99.
• Every plan sits on the same network: 0.52ms to CME from Chicago, dedicated IP, DDoS protection, unmetered bandwidth and cancel-anytime monthly billing.
• The Plus premium is small at the bottom (+$10 on Starter) and large at the top (+$100 on Dedicated). Ultra+ actually has fewer cores than Ultra (8 vs 12), traded for faster ones.
• Monitor support is a hidden plan limit: Starter and Lite support 1 monitor, Pro 2, Ultra 4, Dedicated 6. Multi-screen traders get pushed up a tier by this, not by CPU.
• For most single-platform futures traders, VPS Lite ($59.99) is the honest sweet spot. Multi-account prop traders running a trade copier belong on Pro ($99.99) or Pro+ ($129.99).
• QuantVPS is no longer Chicago-only. Servers now run in Chicago, New York, London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Tokyo, which changes the old advice that it is useless for forex.

The Price Everyone Quotes Is Out of Date

Search for QuantVPS pricing and you will find the same number repeated across half the internet: $79 a month. It used to be the entry point. It is not anymore.

The current QuantVPS lineup starts at $29.99 a month for the VPS Starter and tops out at $399.99 a month for Dedicated+. That is ten plans, split into two hardware families that share names, share a network, and differ in ways the pricing page does not spell out.

This matters for one simple reason. The old $79 floor made QuantVPS a premium decision you had to justify. A $29.99 floor makes it a decision about which tier, not whether. The question changes, so the answer should too.

We verified every number below against the QuantVPS pricing page in September 2026. Prices move. The structure usually does not. If you want the broader verdict on the service itself, our QuantVPS review covers it. This page is the plan-by-plan map.

Standard Plans: AMD EPYC and DDR4

The Standard family runs on AMD EPYC server processors with DDR4 memory. Every plan lists the same 0.52ms latency to CME.

• VPS Starter: $29.99/month. 2 EPYC cores, 4GB DDR4, 50GB NVMe, 1 monitor. No backtesting capacity listed.
• VPS Lite: $59.99/month. 4 EPYC cores, 8GB DDR4, 75GB NVMe, 1 monitor. No backtesting capacity listed.
• VPS Pro: $99.99/month. 6 EPYC cores, 16GB DDR4, 150GB NVMe, 2 monitors, simple backtesting.
• VPS Ultra: $189.99/month. 12 EPYC cores, 32GB DDR4, 300GB NVMe, 4 monitors, moderate backtesting.
• Dedicated: $299.99/month. 12+ Ryzen cores, 128GB DDR4, 1TB NVMe, 6 monitors, extensive backtesting.

Read the jumps, not the plans. Starter to Lite doubles cores and RAM for $30. Lite to Pro doubles RAM again and adds a second monitor for $40. Pro to Ultra doubles everything for $90. The steepest value cliff is at the top: Dedicated costs $110 more than Ultra and quadruples the memory.

The Starter is the plan that rewrote the category. At 2 cores and 4GB it is a thin machine. It will run one charting platform with a handful of charts and one connection. It will not comfortably run NinjaTrader with a dozen instruments, a market replay session and a browser full of tabs. Think of it as a dedicated execution box, not a workstation.

Plus Plans: AMD Ryzen, DDR5 and Backups

The Plus family keeps the same plan names and swaps the hardware underneath: AMD Ryzen consumer-class processors, DDR5 memory, a 3Gbps+ network and automatic backups included.

• VPS Starter+: $39.99/month. 2 Ryzen cores, 4GB DDR5, 50GB NVMe, 1 monitor.
• VPS Lite+: $79.99/month. 4 Ryzen cores, 8GB DDR5, 75GB NVMe, 1 monitor.
• VPS Pro+: $129.99/month. 6 Ryzen cores, 16GB DDR5, 150GB NVMe, 2 monitors. QuantVPS labels this Most Popular.
• VPS Ultra+: $199.99/month. 8 Ryzen cores, 32GB DDR5, 300GB NVMe, 4 monitors.
• Dedicated+: $399.99/month. 12+ Ryzen cores, 128GB DDR5, 2TB+ NVMe in RAID1, 6 monitors, 10Gbps+ network.

That $79.99 Lite+ is where the old "QuantVPS costs $79" number comes from. It is a real plan. It is just no longer the cheapest one.

Now the detail almost nobody points out. Ultra+ has 8 cores. Ultra has 12. You pay $10 more for four fewer cores. That is not a mistake on the pricing page. It is a trade: fewer, faster cores against more, slower ones. Which side wins depends entirely on what your software does with a core.

Standard vs Plus: What the Extra Money Actually Buys

Three things separate the families. One of them matters a lot, one matters sometimes, and one matters until the day it matters more than anything.

Single-core speed. Ryzen desktop-class chips generally beat EPYC server chips core for core. EPYC wins on core count and parallel work. Retail charting platforms lean hard on a small number of fast threads for the interface and order handling. So a trader clicking orders on a busy NinjaTrader or Sierra Chart screen feels the Plus family more than an optimizer grinding a backtest across 12 cores does. That is why Ultra+ gives up cores and still costs more.

DDR5 and the faster network. Real, but secondary. Memory speed helps heavy chart loads and replay. The 3Gbps+ line is headroom most single traders never touch.

Automatic backups. This is the quiet one. On Standard plans, if you misconfigure a workspace, a Windows update eats your platform install, or you nuke a folder by accident, you rebuild by hand. On Plus, you roll back. A funded account with a daily loss limit does not care why your platform will not open at the New York open. It only cares that it will not.

The premium by tier:

• Starter to Starter+: +$10
• Lite to Lite+: +$20
• Pro to Pro+: +$30
• Ultra to Ultra+: +$10 (with 4 fewer cores)
• Dedicated to Dedicated+: +$100 (double the storage, RAID1, 10Gbps)

Our read: at Starter and Ultra, the Plus upgrade is cheap enough to be an easy yes if you trade manually. At Pro, $30 a month for backups and faster cores is defensible for anyone running funded accounts. At Dedicated, you already know whether you need RAID1, and nobody should talk you into it.

What Every Plan Gets, Including the Cheapest

The part of the pricing that does not change by tier is the part you are really paying for.

• 0.52ms to the CME matching engine from the Chicago location. The $29.99 Starter and the $399.99 Dedicated+ sit on the same path to Aurora. Latency is a network property, not a hardware tier.
• Dedicated IP and DDoS protection.
• 24/7 NOC monitoring.
• Unmetered bandwidth.
• Trade copier compatible, which matters for anyone mirroring trades across several prop accounts.
• Cancel anytime monthly billing.
• Setup in 1 to 5 minutes on VPS plans, 30 to 120 minutes on Dedicated tiers.
• 30+ supported platforms, including NinjaTrader, Tradovate, Rithmic, TradeStation, Sierra Chart, Quantower, MultiCharts, Thinkorswim, IBKR, TradingView, MetaTrader 4 and 5, cTrader and DAS Trader Pro.

One thing we did not find on the pricing page: a stated money-back guarantee. Cancel-anytime is not the same as a refund. Budget your first month as spent.

The locations list changed too. QuantVPS now runs servers in Chicago, New York, London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Tokyo. For years the honest advice on this site was that QuantVPS was a Chicago tool and forex traders should look elsewhere. With New York and London on the list, that advice needs an asterisk: pick the location nearest your broker's server, not the one on the homepage. Our CME Aurora VPS explainer covers why geography beats hardware every time.

Which Tier Fits Your Trading

Match the plan to the workload, not to the ego. Five trader profiles cover almost everyone.

1. One platform, one account, a few charts. Starter ($29.99) or Starter+ ($39.99). A futures trader running Tradovate or a lean NinjaTrader workspace on MES or MNQ. The Starter's value is uptime and location, not horsepower. If your platform stutters when the market gets loud, you bought too small.

2. The serious single-account trader. Lite ($59.99). Four cores and 8GB is the realistic floor for NinjaTrader with multiple instruments, an order flow tool and indicators that actually compute something. This is the plan we would point most readers at. It is also cheaper than the old $79 entry that everyone still quotes.

3. Multi-account prop firm traders. Pro ($99.99) or Pro+ ($129.99). Three to five evaluation or funded accounts mirrored through a trade copier, two screens of charts, 16GB of RAM so nothing swaps mid-session. If you are paying monthly subscriptions to a futures prop firm like FunderPro Futures, the VPS is a rounding error next to one blown account. Take Pro+ for the backups.

4. Algo traders who backtest on the box. Ultra ($189.99). Twelve EPYC cores for optimization runs and several strategies live at once. This is the one place the Standard family is the better buy than Plus: parallel backtests love core count.

5. Funds, heavy automation, big replay libraries. Dedicated ($299.99) or Dedicated+ ($399.99). 128GB of RAM and 6 monitors. If you have to ask whether you need it, you do not.

A simple rule settles the in-between cases. Buy the smallest plan your platform runs smoothly on during the busiest 15 minutes of your session. Upgrade when it stutters, not before.

The Annual Math and the Discount

Monthly numbers hide the real cost. Here is what each common tier costs over a year at list price.

• Starter: $359.88
• Lite: $719.88
• Lite+: $959.88
• Pro: $1,199.88
• Pro+: $1,559.88
• Ultra: $2,279.88

The honest comparison is not QuantVPS against a $20 generic VPS. It is QuantVPS against the cost of one bad fill or one frozen platform during a funded evaluation. A single futures prop firm reset or a blown trailing drawdown usually costs more than a year of the Starter plan. Our real math on whether QuantVPS is worth it runs that calculation by strategy type.

On discounts: when we checked in September 2026, the QuantVPS sale page was advertising 60% off the first month as a limited-time offer with no end date shown. First-month discounts are the cheapest way to test your platform on the box. They do not change what you pay from month two, so pick the tier on list price, then take the discount as a free trial of that decision.

The Verdict

QuantVPS stopped being a luxury the day the Starter plan launched at $29.99. The network edge, 0.52ms to CME, is identical across every tier. What you buy as you climb is room: cores, memory, screens and, on Plus plans, a way back when something breaks.

Three takeaways worth keeping. Most traders should start on Lite at $59.99, not the $79.99 plan everyone quotes. Multi-account prop traders should pay the $30 for Pro+, because backups are insurance you only regret skipping once. Algo traders who backtest should stay on Standard Ultra, because twelve cores beat eight faster ones for parallel work.

Speed is not a strategy. A VPS will not fix a bad setup. It will make sure a good one gets filled where you meant it to.

See current QuantVPS plans and pricing

Frequently Asked Questions

How much does QuantVPS cost in 2026?

QuantVPS plans range from $29.99 to $399.99 per month. The Standard family (AMD EPYC, DDR4) runs Starter $29.99, Lite $59.99, Pro $99.99, Ultra $189.99 and Dedicated $299.99. The Plus family (AMD Ryzen, DDR5, automatic backups) runs Starter+ $39.99, Lite+ $79.99, Pro+ $129.99, Ultra+ $199.99 and Dedicated+ $399.99. Prices verified September 2026.

What is the difference between QuantVPS Standard and Plus plans?

Plus plans use AMD Ryzen processors instead of AMD EPYC, DDR5 memory instead of DDR4, a 3Gbps+ network, and include automatic backups. Ryzen cores are faster individually, which helps charting platforms, while EPYC offers more cores for parallel backtesting. Ultra+ has 8 cores against Ultra's 12.

Which QuantVPS plan is best for NinjaTrader?

For a single NinjaTrader account with several instruments and indicators, VPS Lite at $59.99 is the realistic starting point. The $29.99 Starter handles a lean workspace only. Traders running multiple prop firm accounts through a trade copier should use VPS Pro or Pro+ for the 16GB of RAM and 2-monitor support.

Is the cheapest QuantVPS plan as fast as the expensive ones?

On network latency, yes. Every Chicago plan lists 0.52ms to CME, because latency depends on location and network path rather than hardware tier. Higher tiers add CPU cores, RAM, storage and monitor support, which affects how smoothly your platform runs, not how far your orders travel.

Does QuantVPS offer refunds or a free trial?

The QuantVPS pricing page lists cancel-anytime monthly billing but we found no stated money-back guarantee. In September 2026 the sale page advertised 60% off the first month, which is the cheapest way to test a plan. Treat the first month as spent rather than refundable.

Does QuantVPS have servers outside Chicago?

Yes. QuantVPS lists Chicago as its primary location plus New York, London, Dublin, Amsterdam, Frankfurt and Tokyo. Futures traders on CME should use Chicago. Forex traders should choose the location closest to their broker's trade server, which is usually New York or London.