Independent hosting benchmarks
Uplink figures, storage tiers, transfer models and real entry prices across 9 seedbox providers — plus the hosting comparisons that decide which one you actually need.
Ranked on network provisioning, storage tier and value. Uplink is host capacity, not a per-slot guarantee.
| Provider | Rating | From | Storage | Uplink | Locations | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| DediSeedbox | 4.9 | $10 | 0.75 TB | 10 Gbps | Netherlands | Visit ↗ |
| RapidSeedbox | 4.8 | €15 | 1.2 TB | 10 Gbps | Netherlands, France | Visit ↗ |
| GigaRapid | 4.7 | €2.99 | 0.2 TB | 10 Gbps | Netherlands | Visit ↗ |
| Ultra.cc | 4.6 | €4.95 | 1 TB | 50 Gbps | Netherlands, Canada | Visit ↗ |
| Whatbox | 4.4 | €14 | 3.9 TB | 100 Gbps | Netherlands, USA | Visit ↗ |
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One bundles bandwidth, the other bills it. The distinction decides most of the cost.
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Uplink, storage tier, transfer model and location — read as infrastructure, not marketing.
Storage
Storing 2 TB is cheap everywhere. Moving it is where the invoices diverge.
Privacy
It moves exposure from your ISP to your provider. Everything that follows from that.
Most hosting comparisons rank on price and a star rating. That hides the thing that actually determines whether a plan works for you: how the provider provisioned the parts you cannot see.
Every provider page here starts from four questions, and answers them with the provider's own published figures rather than a summary of their marketing.
Is the uplink sized for sustained saturation or for bursts? A 1 Gbps burst port and a 1 Gbps sustained port behave very differently after a week of load.
Unmetered, metered-then-throttled, or metered-then-billed. The third is where unexpected invoices come from.
Bulk spinning disk, NVMe cache in front of it, or all-flash. Capacity and latency are priced separately for a reason.
Where the machine physically sits, which decides both latency and which legal regime applies.
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