UpCloud, the Helsinki-based cloud provider, has published a new price list that takes effect on November 16, 2026. It covers three lines: its previous generation of Cloud Server plans (General Purpose, High CPU and High Memory), Standard and Archive block storage, and Windows Server licences. The storage change is the one with a clear before and after, and it is not small: Standard block storage rises about 35% and Archive storage about 69% in the global locations. For anyone who parks databases, backups or file archives on attached volumes, this is a line on the bill that grows without the server itself changing.
What changes on November 16
On UpCloud's current global price list, Standard block storage costs $0.097 per GB per month and Archive storage $0.065 per GB in the global locations, with Archive at $0.110 in Helsinki. The forward-dated price list for November 16 sets Standard at $0.131 per GB and Archive at $0.110 per GB in every location, so Helsinki Archive stays where it is and everywhere else catches up to it. MaxIOPS, UpCloud's own high-performance storage tier, stays at $0.250 per GB.
The new list also sets Windows Server licences at $16.30 per CPU core per month for Standard edition and $33.60 for Datacenter. UpCloud's current page does not show its present licence rates, so the size of that change cannot be read from public pages, but the new figure is concrete enough to budget against.
The third part concerns plans that new customers can no longer order. In April UpCloud replaced its Developer plans with a cheaper Starter line, added a Premium line on AMD EPYC Turin hardware, and closed General Purpose, High CPU and High Memory plans to new deployments while keeping existing ones supported. Because those plans cannot be bought any more, the November 16 prices for them apply to servers that are already running. UpCloud's notice does not list the old figures next to the new ones.
What it costs per month
The storage arithmetic is simple. One terabyte of Standard block storage goes from $97 to $131 a month, an extra $34. One terabyte of Archive storage in a global location goes from $65 to $110, an extra $45. A modest 500 GB volume holding a database replica or nightly dumps adds about $17 a month on Standard. A team keeping 5 TB of cold backups on Archive pays about $225 more every month, $2,700 a year, for the same data in the same place.
The legacy plans are harder to judge on price alone, because they bundle far more disk than the Premium plans that replace them. After November 16 a legacy General Purpose server with 8 GB RAM, 4 cores and 160 GB of MaxIOPS costs $57 a month; the closest Premium plan, 8 GB and 4 cores with 100 GB, costs $54. At the large end, legacy 192 GB RAM and 38 cores with 2,048 GB of disk is $1,366, against $1,158 for Premium with 500 GB. On the headline price, the legacy plans cost about 6% to 20% more. Add the missing disk to Premium at the $0.250 MaxIOPS rate and the picture flips for most sizes: the 8 GB Premium server with an extra 60 GB comes to $69, and the 192 GB one with an extra 1,548 GB comes to $1,545, more than the legacy plan in both cases. The exception in the published tables is the largest size, 512 GB and 80 cores, where legacy at $3,396 still costs about $127 more than Premium with the disk added.
Why storage is the line that moved
This is the storage shortage arriving in a named provider's list. Enterprise SSD contract prices have climbed through 2026, as we covered in our look at what the flash squeeze does to the VPS disk line, and a provider that sells capacity by the gigabyte passes that cost through faster than one that bundles disk into a fixed plan.
What a buyer should do
If you run on UpCloud, list every attached volume and its tier before November 16 and price it at the new rates; archive data is where the jump is largest, and object storage or a backup plan priced per terabyte may now be the cheaper home for cold copies. If you sit on a legacy General Purpose plan, do not migrate to Premium only because its headline price is lower: compare like for like on disk, because for most sizes the legacy plan with its bundled storage stays cheaper. If you are choosing a provider now, read the storage price per gigabyte as carefully as the server price, and compare plans with disk included across hosts in our catalog or for database workloads specifically.
The figures come from UpCloud's own global price list and its "Pricing changes November 16th" price list published on October 15, 2026, with the plan changes described in UpCloud's April 2026 announcement of the Starter and Premium plans.