Click column headers to sort · bar = cluster starting price $/mo (control plane + cheapest node)
| Provider | Cluster from $/mo ▼ | Control plane | Cheapest node | HA control plane | Region | Trustpilot | Notes |
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How to choose?
Independent clouds (Linode, Scaleway, Vultr, DigitalOcean, UpCloud) offer the control plane free — you pay only for worker nodes, so a small cluster starts at the cheapest node alone ($5–12/mo). UpCloud 🇫🇮 is Finnish and runs in Helsinki; Linode has the lowest starting price ($5/mo node).
AWS EKS and Google GKE charge ~$73/mo for the control plane alone ($0.10/h) on top of nodes — a significant fixed cost for a small cluster, but justified if you need deep AWS/GCP integration and massive scale. GKE has a datacenter in Hamina (Finland). In production, remember HA control plane: on independents it costs extra ($40–60/mo), on large clouds it is included in the management fee.