Cherry Servers vs IBM Cloud
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Cherry Servers and IBM Cloud.
Quick Verdict
4.0/5
Cherry Servers
0 reviews
3.2/5
IBM Cloud
0 reviews
Cherry Servers is rated higher (4.0 vs 3.2). Cherry Servers offers dedicated bare metal and cloud VPS from Vilnius, Lithuania and Amsterdam, Netherlands. API-driven infrastructure with hourly billing and GDPR-compliant EU hosting. IBM Cloud offers Virtual Server Instances, Kubernetes, bare metal, and strong mainframe (Z-series) integration. Used by financial services needing IBM Z connectivity. 60+ global datacenters.
Cherry Servers Lithuanian bare metal and cloud at EU pricing | IBM Cloud Enterprise cloud with mainframe integration | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 4.0 (0 reviews)✓ | 3.2 (0 reviews) |
| Pricing model | paid | freemium |
| Starting price | From $3.51/mo | Free tier available✓ |
| Best for | EU-based teams and operators who want configurable bare metal, BGP-level networking, and honest published pricing without hyperscaler overhead | Enterprises anchored to IBM Z, Power, SAP, or Oracle estates, and regulated financial services teams needing certification coverage and mainframe adjacency |
| Specifications (entry plan) | ||
| CPU cores | 1 vCPU | — |
| RAM | 1 GB | — |
| Storage | 20 GB | — |
| Bandwidth | 1 TB/mo | — |
| SLA uptime | 99.97% | — |
| Data-center count | 7 | — |
| €/vCPU/mo | €3.51 | — |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €3.51 | — |
| Features | ||
| IPv6 | ✓ | |
| DDoS protection | ✓ | |
| Automated backups | ✓ | |
| Snapshots | ||
| Managed option | ||
| Bare metal | ||
| GPU available | ||
| S3-compatible | ||
| Hourly billing | ||
| Free tier | ✓ | |
| Data-center locations | ||
| Regions | Šiauliai LT, Amsterdam NL, Frankfurt DE, Stockholm SE, Chicago US, Singapore SG, Tokyo JP | — |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectioneu datacentergdpr compliantapi access | free tierhourly billinggpu availableeu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenterapi access |
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Cherry Servers
Pros
- + Two decades of operating history, own data center in Lithuania, ISO 27001 / SOC-attested colo sites
- + Clear published price lists: VPS from $3.51/mo, bare metal from $57.33/mo, hourly rates everywhere
- + Operator-grade networking: 10 Gbps uplinks, 100 TB+ free egress on dedicated, BGP, BYOIP, floating IPs
- + Seven locations across EU, US, and APAC, with EU jurisdiction for GDPR-sensitive work
- + Free IPv6 /64 (expandable to /56) on bare metal, standard DDoS protection included
Cons
- - Own pages publish conflicting entry prices ($3.51 vs $3.24 vs $5.83 on the same page)
- - Hourly billing on entry VPS plans costs roughly 4x the monthly rate over a full month
- - Entry Gen 2 VPS plans bundle only 1 TB transfer and have no annual discount
- - No real managed hosting tier — support is 24/7 but servers are self-managed
- - IPv6 is bare metal only; VPS/VDS get none, and regional stock is uneven
IBM Cloud
Pros
- + IBM Z (mainframe) and Power Virtual Server integration that no commodity host offers
- + Credit-backed 99.99% SLA on Virtual Server for VPC with multizone regions of three or more separate data centers
- + Ten instance profile families including Confidential Computing and storage-optimized shapes
- + Bare metal, spot-style transient servers, reserved capacity, and hourly billing in one contract surface
- + Free Lite account plus generous rotating new-account credits for trials
Cons
- - Two overlapping platforms (Classic and VPC) with different APIs, images, and pricing
- - Roughly 10x the monthly cost of value leaders for a comparable 2-vCPU VM
- - DDoS scrubbing is a separate paid product (Cloud Internet Services)
- - Metered extras (boot volume, egress, load balancers) make cost prediction work
- - Base support tier is not the enterprise support IBM's reputation implies
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