# Cloudpylon

> Multi-Cloud Compute Pricing & Specification Database. Comparison across 13 major cloud providers.

Last reviewed: 2026-08-22.

Cloudpylon indexes virtual machine instances, bare metal servers, and cloud compute shapes from 13 cloud infrastructure providers:
- AWS (Amazon Web Services EC2)
- Microsoft Azure (Azure Virtual Machines)
- GCP (Google Cloud Compute Engine)
- Hetzner Cloud & Dedicated
- OCI (Oracle Cloud Infrastructure Compute)
- DigitalOcean (Droplets)
- Linode / Akamai Cloud
- Alibaba Cloud (ECS)
- Tencent Cloud (CVM)
- OVHcloud (Public Cloud Instances)
- Netcup (Cloud VPS & Root Servers)
- Scaleway (Instances & Elastic Metal)
- Atlantic.Net (Cloud Servers)

## Supported Pricing Dimensions
- On-Demand / Hourly & Monthly rates
- Spot / Preemptible Pricing
- 1-Year Reserved / Savings Plans
- 3-Year Reserved / Savings Plans

## Compute Specifications Indexed
- vCPU / CPU Cores
- RAM / Memory (GiB)
- Architecture (x86_64, arm64)
- CPU Family & Generation
- Region, Country, and Continent Geographic Availability

## Primary URLs

- [Home](https://cloudpylon.com/): Provider directory and product overview.
- [All Servers Catalog](https://cloudpylon.com/instances): Every indexed instance with catalog pricing and specs.
- [Best Value & Recommended Rankings](https://cloudpylon.com/recommended): Top value-score compute picks per tier.
- [Cheapest Cloud Server Directory](https://cloudpylon.com/cheapest): Entry point for all lowest-price rankings.
- [Multi-Cloud Comparisons](https://cloudpylon.com/compare): Head-to-head provider pricing verdicts.
- [Cloud Cost Guides](https://cloudpylon.com/guides): Data-backed engineering guides (ARM64 savings, spot vs reserved, Kubernetes cost, region economics, self-hosted databases).
- [Cloudpylon Price Index](https://cloudpylon.com/price-index): Catalog statistics: median floor prices, ARM64 vs x86 discount, listing coverage.
- [Newsroom](https://cloudpylon.com/newsroom): Product updates and coverage changes.
- [Methodology](https://cloudpylon.com/methodology): How prices are collected, normalized, verified, and refreshed.
- [About Cloudpylon](https://cloudpylon.com/about): What the catalog is and how to contact the team.
- [API Documentation](https://cloudpylon.com/api): Free public JSON API overview.

## Programmatic Guides & Comparisons

- [AWS vs Hetzner](https://cloudpylon.com/compare/aws-vs-hetzner)
- [AWS vs Azure](https://cloudpylon.com/compare/aws-vs-azure)
- [AWS vs GCP](https://cloudpylon.com/compare/aws-vs-gcp)
- [DigitalOcean vs Hetzner](https://cloudpylon.com/compare/digitalocean-vs-hetzner)
- [DigitalOcean vs Linode](https://cloudpylon.com/compare/digitalocean-vs-linode)
- [Cheapest AWS Instances](https://cloudpylon.com/cheapest/aws)
- [Cheapest AWS in us-east-1](https://cloudpylon.com/cheapest/aws/us-east-1)
- [Cheapest Azure VMs](https://cloudpylon.com/cheapest/azure)
- [Cheapest Hetzner Servers](https://cloudpylon.com/cheapest/hetzner)
- [Cheapest in Europe](https://cloudpylon.com/cheapest/location/europe)
- [Cheapest in Germany](https://cloudpylon.com/cheapest/location/europe/de)
- [Cheapest 2 vCPU 4GB RAM](https://cloudpylon.com/cheapest/specs/2-vcpu-4gb-ram)
- [Cheapest 4 vCPU 8GB RAM](https://cloudpylon.com/cheapest/specs/4-vcpu-8gb-ram)
- [Cheapest ARM64 & Graviton](https://cloudpylon.com/cheapest/specs/arm64)
- [Cheapest for Kubernetes](https://cloudpylon.com/cheapest/workloads/kubernetes)
- [Cheapest for Databases](https://cloudpylon.com/cheapest/workloads/databases)

## Instance Detail URL Patterns
- AWS EC2: https://cloudpylon.com/aws/instances/{instance_type}?region={region}
- Azure VMs: https://cloudpylon.com/azure/vms/{vm_name}?region={region}
- GCP Compute: https://cloudpylon.com/gcp/instances/{instance_name}?region={region}
- Hetzner: https://cloudpylon.com/hetzner/instances/{server_name}?location={location}
- DigitalOcean: https://cloudpylon.com/digitalocean/instances/{server_slug}?region={region}
- Oracle Cloud (OCI): https://cloudpylon.com/oci/instances/{shape_name}
- Linode: https://cloudpylon.com/linode/instances/{server_id}?region={region}
- Alibaba Cloud: https://cloudpylon.com/alibaba/instances/{server_id}?region={region}
- Tencent Cloud: https://cloudpylon.com/tencent/instances/{server_id}?region={region}
- OVHcloud: https://cloudpylon.com/ovhcloud/instances/{server_id}?region={region}
- Netcup: https://cloudpylon.com/netcup/instances/{server_id}?region={region}
- Scaleway: https://cloudpylon.com/scaleway/instances/{server_id}?region={region}
- Atlantic.Net: https://cloudpylon.com/atlanticcloud/instances/{server_id}?region={region}

## Public API Endpoints
- Instances List: GET https://cloudpylon.com/api/instances
- Cheapest & Best Value Instances: GET https://cloudpylon.com/api/instances/cheapest
- Provider Native Instances: GET https://cloudpylon.com/api/{provider}/instances

A full technical reference is available at https://cloudpylon.com/llms-full.txt. Authentication policy: https://cloudpylon.com/auth.md.