StackRates VPS prices

Answer a plain-language hosting price question ("cheapest 4 GB VPS in Germany under $10", "hetzner vs vultr", "server for a Minecraft Java server") from today’s prices.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "question": {
      "type": "string"
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "question"
  ]
}

Cheapest VPS plans matching a size, budget, provider or location, cheapest first (one per provider unless exactly one provider is given).

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "min_ram_gb": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Minimum memory in GB (0.5 for 512 MB)."
    },
    "min_vcpu": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Minimum vCPU count."
    },
    "min_disk_gb": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Minimum disk in GB."
    },
    "max_usd_month": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Maximum monthly price in USD."
    },
    "min_transfer_tb": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Minimum included monthly transfer in TB."
    },
    "providers": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "Provider slugs, e.g. hetzner, digitalocean, vultr, akamai-linode, aws-lightsail, ovhcloud, contabo, netcup."
    },
    "location": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Country, city or region slug, e.g. usa, germany, india, frankfurt, new-york, europe, asia, austria, vienna, helsinki, zurich."
    },
    "no_commitment": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Leave out prices that need a prepaid term."
    },
    "unmetered": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Only plans with unmetered traffic."
    },
    "managed": {
      "type": "boolean",
      "description": "Managed hosting (Cloudways, Kinsta) instead of unmanaged servers."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "1-20, default 8."
    }
  }
}

The documented requirements of a self-hosted app or game server (n8n, Nextcloud AIO, Immich, Minecraft Java, Odoo, GitLab, ... 192 apps) and the cheapest plans that meet them.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "app": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "App name or slug, e.g. n8n, immich, minecraft-java, gitlab."
    },
    "location": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Country, city or region slug, e.g. usa, germany, india, frankfurt, new-york, europe, asia, austria, vienna, helsinki, zurich."
    },
    "max_usd_month": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Maximum monthly price in USD."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "app"
  ]
}

Introductory and sale prices on the providers’ own pages today, each judged on its first year against the cheapest regular plan with as much memory.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "providers": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "description": "Provider slugs, e.g. hetzner, digitalocean, vultr, akamai-linode, aws-lightsail, ovhcloud, contabo, netcup."
    },
    "min_ram_gb": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Minimum memory in GB (0.5 for 512 MB)."
    },
    "max_usd_month": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "Maximum monthly price in USD."
    }
  }
}

A messy buying question in plain words ("moving WordPress and a small Postgres app off a $40 box, I am in Germany, no yearly contract") answered from today’s prices: how the question was read (editable filter), the matching plans with their cost over the term, two to four sentences on the trade-offs written only from those rows, and what the data cannot answer. Pass the previous answer’s `filter` to continue a conversation. Every number comes from the dataset; the first line says whether a small language model or the rule parser read the question.

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "question": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "The buyer’s question, up to 500 characters."
    },
    "filter": {
      "type": "object",
      "description": "The `filter` object returned by the previous advise_vps_choice call, to carry the conversation forward."
    },
    "term_months": {
      "type": "number",
      "enum": [
        12,
        36
      ],
      "description": "How long the buyer plans to keep the server (default 12)."
    },
    "country": {
      "type": "string",
      "description": "Buyer’s country, ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 (DE, GB, US), used only to add VAT where the price is ex VAT."
    },
    "limit": {
      "type": "number",
      "description": "1-20, default 8."
    }
  },
  "required": [
    "question"
  ]
}