Equinix Metal vs Cherry Servers
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Equinix Metal and Cherry Servers.
Quick Verdict
1.5/5
Equinix Metal
0 reviews
4.0/5
Cherry Servers
0 reviews
Cherry Servers is rated higher (4.0 vs 1.5). Equinix Metal (formerly Packet) offered on-demand bare metal servers across Equinix metros with ARM and x86 hardware, hourly billing and private interconnects to cloud providers. Equinix stopped commercial sales and sunset the service on 30 June 2026 — it can no longer be purchased or used. 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.
Equinix Metal Discontinued: on-demand bare metal (formerly Packet), sunset 30 June 2026 | Cherry Servers Lithuanian bare metal and cloud at EU pricing | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 1.5 (0 reviews) | 4.0 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | paid | paid |
| Starting price | Free tier available | From $3.51/mo |
| Best for | Nobody — the service was sunset on 30 June 2026. Former Metal workloads belong on a modern bare metal provider from our /category/bare-metal-cloud shortlist, or on Equinix colocation if interconnection was the real dependency. | EU-based teams and operators who want configurable bare metal, BGP-level networking, and honest published pricing without hyperscaler overhead |
| 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 billingipv6ddos protectioneu datacenterus datacenterapac datacenterapi accessprivate networking | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectioneu datacentergdpr compliantapi access |
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Equinix Metal
Pros
- + Historically one of the strongest developer surfaces in bare metal: API, CLI, Terraform, Kubernetes integrations
- + Hourly on-demand billing (minimum one-hour block) with 5-50% reservation discounts by term
- + Single-tenant hardware with real interconnection: Equinix Fabric links and cloud on-ramps
- + ARM and x86 options, NVMe storage, up to 64-core EPYC-class machines
- + Shutdown was handled professionally: dated timeline, migration support, security and stability maintained to the end
Cons
- - Discontinued: sales stopped and the service was sunset on 30 June 2026 — unpicked workloads were deleted
- - Premium pricing (~$535/mo entry per third-party trackers) in a market with far cheaper bare metal automation
- - Classic vendor-concentration risk: a side product inside a colocation giant, killed by portfolio arithmetic
- - Residual resources (IPs, VLANs, VRFs, Fabric connections, dedicated ports) kept billing unless explicitly deleted
- - No free tier, no published SLA; enterprise sales-led motions for credits and reservations
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
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