Tencent Cloud vs Cherry Servers
A detailed comparison to help you choose between Tencent Cloud and Cherry Servers.
Quick Verdict
3.6/5
Tencent Cloud
0 reviews
4.0/5
Cherry Servers
0 reviews
Cherry Servers is rated higher (4.0 vs 3.6). Tencent Cloud is the cloud division of Tencent Holdings, the third-largest provider in China (15% share, Canalys Q3 2024) with about 2% of the global cloud market. Strong WeChat and gaming ecosystem integration; 22 regions with mainland China coverage. 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.
Tencent Cloud China's second-largest cloud by Tencent | Cherry Servers Lithuanian bare metal and cloud at EU pricing | |
|---|---|---|
| Overview | ||
| Rating | 3.6 (0 reviews) | 4.0 (0 reviews)✓ |
| Pricing model | freemium | paid |
| Starting price | Free tier available✓ | From $3.51/mo |
| Best for | Businesses with China or Asia-Pacific users, game studios, media delivery into mainland China, and teams building on the WeChat/mini-program ecosystem | 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 | 1 vCPU |
| RAM | 1 GB | 1 GB |
| Storage | — | 20 GB |
| Bandwidth | — | 1 TB/mo |
| SLA uptime | 99.975%✓ | 99.97% |
| Data-center count | 22✓ | 7 |
| €/vCPU/mo | €0.00✓ | €3.51 |
| €/GB RAM/mo | €0.00✓ | €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 | 22 regions / 64 AZs incl. mainland China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Seoul, Tokyo, Bangkok, Mumbai, Silicon Valley, Virginia, Frankfurt, Moscow | Šiauliai LT, Amsterdam NL, Frankfurt DE, Stockholm SE, Chicago US, Singapore SG, Tokyo JP |
| Tags | ||
| Tags | free tierhourly billinggpu availableapac datacenterus datacenterapi access | hourly billingnvme storageipv6ddos protectioneu datacentergdpr compliantapi access |
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Tencent Cloud
Pros
- + 22 regions and 64 AZs with mainland China coverage that Western clouds cannot offer
- + Published per-hour CVM price lists by region and per-second pay-as-you-go billing
- + Published 99.975% single-instance SLA with 10-400 Gbps baseline DDoS protection included
- + Trial-based Free Tier across 30+ products (CVM 2C4G free for 3 months) plus aggressive new-user pricing
- + Native WeChat, mini-program and gaming ecosystem integration
Cons
- - Mainland China compliance (ICP registration, data law) is heavy friction for Western buyers
- - Documentation and console experience are inconsistent, with machine-translated pages
- - Sales-and-ticket support model; community ecosystem is thin outside Asia
- - Promotional pricing is the headline — steady-state costs on modern instance families are closer to hyperscaler rates
- - Price list is reference-only; actual order pricing governs
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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