Leaseweb's cheapest server is €51.26 a month - a promotional rate on a Xeon E3-1230v2 that first shipped in 2012, sitting in Frankfurt. Around it sits the fine print: a $50 setup fee, VAT on top, a one-year term before the 10% discount applies, a metered 30 TB volume as standard, and up to five business days once you touch the spec. An unmetered 10 Gbps port is a different product line starting near €960/mo. Server Room starts at $5/mo, ships in about five minutes, and puts the unmetered port in the price.
The network is genuinely excellent. The friction is everything wrapped around the server.
Three dual-socket Intel Xeon pairings at matching core counts, memory and disks - with their setup fee and traffic allowance counted in.
The same processor on both sides, the same memory and the same disks - and ours is the cheaper of the two before their $50 setup fee and VAT. Fair warning: Frankfurt currently runs this box on promo at €104.53, which undercuts us until the discount lapses.
Twelve cores per socket either way, matching memory, matching disks, and roughly the same money. What separates them is an unmetered port instead of a 30 TB allowance, no setup fee, and Gold-tier silicon against their Silver.
Eight more cores than their R750 on the same 128 GB and the same disks, and cheaper before setup and VAT. If you need more than 40, their 48-core R750 with the 5318Y is the one to look at - €269.12, still metered at 30 TB.
Leaseweb figures were read in August 2026 from their configurator and their public catalog, sorted cheapest-first. Note their listings count cores per processor, so a dual-socket machine holds twice the number shown. Euro prices exclude VAT, and promotional rates appear crossed out beside a higher standard rate - we print both. At the very bottom of the range they win outright: their cheapest server is €51.26 promo (€60.31 list) against $84.13 for our nearest 32 GB build. Setup costs $50.00 on their side and nothing on ours. Our figures are configurator totals for the builds shown.
Specs settle half the decision. Fees, contracts, traffic and how long you wait settle the rest.
| Server Room | Leaseweb | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry dedicated server | From $5.00 / mo, all-in | From €51.26 / mo promo in Frankfurt (list €60.31), plus $50 setup and VAT |
| Setup fees | None on instant configurations | $50.00 on a representative configured build |
| Deployment time | ~5 minutes; custom builds within 24h | 1 hour on stock configs, up to 5 business days once configured; longer on a first order pending KYC |
| Bandwidth | Unmetered options up to 10 Gbps as standard | Metered 30 TB volume as standard |
| Cost of unmetered 10 Gbps | A port upgrade on any build | A separate product line - from about €958/mo |
| Contract terms | Month to month at the listed price | Month-to-month available; the 10% discount needs a 1-year term |
| cPanel | Included on every plan above the $5 entry server | Defaults to no control panel - licence is a paid option |
| Buying process | Self-serve checkout, no sales call | Hundreds of SKUs, sales-led for anything non-standard |
| Migration help | Free - we move you from Leaseweb with little to no downtime | Self-service |
Leaseweb is the right answer when you need a nine-region footprint, a colocation cage beside your servers, and a named account manager to sign it all off. Server Room is the right answer when you'd rather not pay the setup fee, the tax line, the one-year term and the five-day wait - and when an unmetered port should be a checkbox rather than a €958/mo product line. From $5/mo, month to month, running in about five minutes, and we'll migrate you off Leaseweb for free with little to no downtime.
