Rackspace Spot

Save big on cloud costs

1 cluster - 4 x m3.medium nodes │ Non-production control plane │ 1 load balancer

* Estimated costs, not accounting for network egress and other variable costs.

Rackspace Spot

$12.88
‍per month*

4x nodes @ $0.72

1x non-production control plane @ $0

1x load balancer @ $10

* Based on current market prices. Market prices will vary over time with demand and supply.

Hyperscalers

K8s + Spot Instances

$159.42
‍per month*

4x nodes @ $17.86

1x control plane @ $72

1x load balancer @ $16

* Estimated pricing comparison data from 06/10/2025.

K8s + Droplets

$108
‍per month*

4x nodes @ $24

1x control plane @ $0

1x load balancer @ $12

* Estimated pricing comparison data from 06/10/2025.

2 clusters - 4 x m3.large nodes │ Production control plane │ 2 load balancer │ 2 persistent volumes at 5GB

* Estimated costs, not accounting for network egress and other variable costs.

Rackspace Spot

$106.36
per month*

8x nodes @ $0.72

2x control planes @ $0

2x load balancers @ $10

2x persistent volumes @ 5GB x $0.06/GB

* Based on current market prices. Market prices will vary over time with demand and supply.

Hyperscalers

K8s + Spot Instances

$468.86
per month*

8x nodes @ $36.50

2x control planes @ $72

2x load balancers @ $16

2x persistent volumes @ 5GB x $0.08/GB

* Estimated pricing comparison data from 06/10/2025.

K8s + Droplets

$628
per month*

8x nodes @ $63

2x control planes @ $40

2x load balancers @ $12

2x persistent volumes @ $10

* Estimated pricing comparison data from 06/10/2025.

4 clusters - 16 x m3.2xlarge nodes │ Production control planes │ 4 load balancers │ 12 persistent volumes at 20GB

* Estimated costs, not accounting for network egress and other variable costs.

Rackspace Spot

$259.04
per month*

64x nodes @ $0.72

4x control planes @ $40

4x load balancer @ $10

12x persistent volumes @ 20GB x $0.06/GB

* Based on current market prices. Market prices will vary over time with demand and supply.

Hyperscalers

K8s + Spot Instances

$10,925
per month*

64x nodes @ $166

4x control planes @ $72

4x load balancers @ $16

12x persistent volumes @ 20GB x $0.08/GB

* Estimated pricing comparison data from 06/10/2025.

K8s + Droplets

$16,456
per month*

64x nodes @ $252

4x control planes @ $40

4x load balancers @ $12

12x 20GB persistent volumes @ $10

* Estimated pricing comparison data from 06/10/2025.

Real-time auction prices

Our open market determines server prices based on real-time supply and demand.
See current prices and available capacity levels to determine your maximum bid.

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Enterprise-grade features at Spot prices

All the reliability and functionality you expect from managed Kubernetes,
with the cost benefits of spot instance pricing.

Honest Spot servers

Other clouds set a high floor price for their Spot server capacity. Our true market auction can save you >90%.

Fully managed Kubernetes

Fully Managed Kubernetes with a hosted control plane. We deploy, scale, monitor and upgrade Kubernetes for you.

Full featured infrastructure

Spot and On-demand servers, shared persistent storage, load balancers and generous egress traffic.

Automated operations

Auto-scaling node pools, terraform provider and powerful APIs to manage infrastructure-as-code.

Stateful workloads

Run stateful applications with persistent storage that transparently migrates even if a spot server is recycled.

Market transparency

Visibility into market prices and levels of capacity available at various price points enable you to bid with confidence.

Available enterprise support SLA

All Spot accounts are covered with community (Github) and Email support; an Enterprise Support SLA agreement is available separately.

>99.9% Kubernetes API uptime

Automated node replacement

>99% Node Delivery Rate

Expert support via Github and Email

Detailed cost analytics

Enterprise Support SLA available

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The technology behind the savings

Our platform leverages available resources across Rackspace's global datacenters to provide you with a stable, reliable cloud at unbelievable prices.

Kubernetes Control Plane

Every customer cluster gets its own Cluster-API based Kubernetes control plane. We deploy and manage this for you so you don't have to.

Market Auction

Our auction engine continuously connects available capacity with demand, enabling true price discovery.

Declarative Architecture

Spot itself runs on a fully Kubernetes infrastructure, with declarative design for all objects and continuous reconciliation against declared intent.

SmartHub.ai Slashes Cloud Costs By Over 86% With Rackspace Spot

Achieved a staggering reduction in monthly cloud costs by over 86% in very quick time
Empowered developers with a simple, easy-to-use Terraform-compatible Kubernetes platform.
Gained a stable and rapidly deployable environment for their development and testing needs.

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“When we found Rackspace Spot, it almost seemed too good to be true. There’s nothing in the cloud infrastructure space that can compete on pricing or usability for our needs.”

Arun Narayanaswamy, Founder and CTO of SmartHub.ai

What our customers are saying

Companies of all sizes trust RackSpace Spot to deliver reliable
Kubernetes infrastructure at a fraction of the cost.

Spot provides the most affordable Kubernetes hosting on the market. It's easy and accessible to use for anybody, providing a cost-effective service that will change the platform hosting industry.

Matthew Kosmoski

CTO, IT Service Provider

Spot is my first choice for stateless compute-intensive workloads. The Terraform integration and hands-free Kubernetes management delivers massive value for the price.

Robert Putt

Platform Engineer,
CloudNative Solutions

I ran Airflow in Spot with fault-tolerant Kubernetes components, so preemption wasn’t a concern. I had no infrastructure-related failures. Spot felt almost too good to be true—it was astonishingly inexpensive to run.

Airflow User

I really like Rackspace and your Spot product - it's really fast and great hardware choice/location and easy to use. If it had DBaaS support, I'd move even more projects over. That’s the one thing holding me back!

Chris White

DevOps Lead

I've found spot as a create way to learn Kubernetes. It comes with a lot of features off the start. Easy to setup and add new nodes. Their terraform provider makes it easy to manage the entire system.

Koray Okumus

Platform Engineer

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