OpenMetal vs AWS Dedicated Server Cost

Q: Is OpenMetal cheaper than AWS for dedicated servers?

For sustained 24/7 workloads above $10,000 per month in cloud spend, OpenMetal’s fixed monthly pricing typically delivers significant savings over AWS, with the gap widening as egress volume and storage requirements increase.

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The cost difference is structural, not just a matter of unit price. OpenMetal charges a fixed monthly rate per server that includes local NVMe storage, 20 Gbps LACP private bandwidth, IPMI access, and DDoS protection. AWS bills compute per hour, storage per GB/month (EBS), and egress per GB transferred. On a 3-node deployment running 24/7 for 12 months, the EBS cost alone for equivalent NVMe capacity can add $500+ per node per month before accounting for IOPS provisioning .

Egress is where the gap accelerates. At 50 TB/month, AWS egress charges reach approximately $4,500/month on top of compute and storage costs. OpenMetal’s 95th-percentile billing keeps egress predictable regardless of volume. Organizations spending above $20,000/month on public cloud typically see close to 50% cost reduction on sustained workloads.

AWS remains cost-effective for intermittent workloads that benefit from scale-to-zero, organizations under $10,000/month in cloud spend, and architectures deeply integrated with AWS-native managed services where the migration cost would exceed the infrastructure savings.