Pricing — Nigeria
Server pricing in Nigeria, quoted in Naira
Two things decide most Nigerian infrastructure purchases, and the sticker price is only one of them. The other is what your finance function has to do at month end with a document that was not built for the Nigerian tax system — the year Nigeria rewrote that system. Every figure on this page is the Naira figure from a Nigerian price list, not a dollar rate converted at the moment you click. Cloud servers start at NGN 13,890 a month, a Linux VPS at NGN 21,950, dedicated hardware at NGN 463,500. Below the numbers is the part most hosting quotes leave out here: the 7.5%, the TIN, and what the 2026 regime expects a supplier invoice to carry.
No credit card required to start · Prices exclude VAT · Local figures indicative, settled at checkout
Cloud Servers
Build your own VM, from $13.89
No fixed plans — a server is the sum of the vCPU, RAM, SSD and IPv4s you pick. Linux images are free; Windows Server adds a license fee. IPv6 is free and on by default.
| Resource | Unit | Price /mo |
|---|---|---|
| vCPU | per vCPU | NGN 4,330 |
| RAM | per GB | NGN 3,060 |
| Storage — Universal SSD | per GB | NGN 250 |
| Public IPv4 | per address | NGN 1,500 |
| Windows Server 2019 Standard | per server | From NGN 8,000 |
| Windows Server 2022 Standard | per server | From NGN 10,000 |
| Windows Server 2025 Standard | per server | From NGN 12,000 |
| Bandwidth | 1 Gbps port, unlimited local traffic | Free |
| IPv6 (/64) | per server | Free |
Minimum storage: 20 GB for Linux images, 32 GB for Windows. The Windows Server license scales with server size.
Dedicated Servers
Single-tenant bare metal, from $309
The whole machine, nothing shared. Ready configurations online in hours, or a custom build to spec.
| Config | Price /mo | Setup (one-time) | CPU | RAM | Storage |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LineServe Core 1 | NGN 463,500 | NGN 148,500 | 16c / 32t | 32 GB | 2 × 480 GB SSD |
| LineServe Core 2 | NGN 568,500 | NGN 148,500 | 24c / 48t | 64 GB | 2 × 960 GB SSD |
| LineServe Core 3Popular | NGN 793,500 | NGN 223,500 | 32c / 64t | 128 GB | 2 × 1.92 TB SSD |
| LineServe Core 4 | NGN 1,168,500 | NGN 223,500 | 36c / 72t | 256 GB | 2 × 3.84 TB SSD |
| LineServe Core 5 | NGN 1,543,500 | NGN 298,500 | 40c / 80t | 512 GB | 2 × 7.68 TB SSD |
| LineServe Core 6 | NGN 1,948,500 | NGN 298,500 | 44c / 88t | 1 TB | 2 × 15.36 TB SSD |
| Custom | Quote | Quoted | Your spec | Your spec | Your spec |
Object Storage
S3-compatible, from $0.035/GB
Tiered pricing that gets cheaper as you store more — with free egress up to your stored volume each month. No surprise transfer bills.
| Storage tier | Monthly volume | Price / GB / month |
|---|---|---|
| Starter | Up to 1 TB | NGN 93.71 / GB |
| Growth | Up to 5 TB | NGN 80.33 / GB |
| Business | Up to 10 TB | NGN 66.94 / GB |
| Enterprise | 10 TB+ | NGN 53.55 / GB · custom quote |
| Metric | Price |
|---|---|
| Data transfer out | Free |
| Data transfer in | Free |
| Requests | Free |
Colocation
Tier III space, from $100/U
Your hardware in our carrier-neutral facilities, with redundant power and connectivity. Standard commitment terms.
| Option | Price /mo | Space | Power |
|---|---|---|---|
| Single U | NGN 153,000 | 1U | 1A / 120 W |
| Quarter rack | NGN 1,530,000 | 10U | 500 W |
| Half rackPopular | NGN 3,213,000 | 21U | 1 kW, A+B |
| Full rack | NGN 6,426,000 | 42U | 3 kW, A+B |
| Private cage | Quote | Custom | Custom |
Power above your footprint's allowance is NGN 765,000 per kW per month.
Always included
No nickel-and-diming
These come standard on every plan, at no extra cost.
How billing works
Simple, local, predictable
How you're charged, and what to expect on the invoice.
Pay in NGN
Settle by card or bank transfer. Billed in NGN, with no forex conversion on your side.
No card to start
Begin without a credit card. Add whatever payment method suits you.
Annual billing — 2 months free
Pay for 10 months, get 12, on eligible plans.
VAT shown separately
Prices exclude VAT; applicable tax is added at checkout.
FAQ
Billing questions, answered
Instances are billed monthly. Changes mid-cycle are prorated, so you only pay for what you use after a resize.
No. You can start without a card — add whatever payment method suits you when you're ready.
No. Displayed prices exclude VAT. Applicable tax is calculated and shown at checkout based on your location.
Pay annually on eligible plans and get two months free — you pay for 10 months and get 12.
Egress is free. Data transfer in and out — and API requests — are all included at no charge, so you only ever pay for the storage you use.
Yes — for dedicated servers, colocation, large deployments, and volume commitments. Talk to Sales for a tailored quote.
No. The NGN figures are Nigeria's own price list, set per currency and copied from the canonical product data rather than converted from a USD rate at runtime. The number on the card is the number on the invoice.
NGN. You can view prices in USD, KES, TZS or NGN, but as a Nigerian customer you are quoted, invoiced and settled in Naira.
No. Prices exclude VAT. Nigeria's rate on this class of service is 7.5%, and it is calculated and shown separately at checkout.
Because the rates differ: 7.5% in Nigeria, 16% in Kenya and 18% in Tanzania on the same class of service. It is one of the few places where a Nigerian buyer has a structural cost advantage over a regional peer, and it is worth stating rather than glossing over.
From NGN 13,890 a month for 1 vCPU, 1 GB of RAM, 20 GB of SSD and one IPv4. Beyond that it is NGN 4,330 per vCPU, NGN 3,060 per GB of RAM, NGN 250 per GB of Universal SSD and NGN 1,500 per additional IPv4, each per month. IPv6 is free.
Linux plans are NGN 21,950, NGN 42,400, NGN 83,300, NGN 165,100, NGN 328,700 and NGN 655,900 a month. Windows plans, with the Windows Server 2022 Standard licence in the price, are NGN 31,950, NGN 52,400, NGN 93,300, NGN 185,100, NGN 368,700 and NGN 735,900.
LineServe Core 1 is NGN 463,500 a month plus a one-time NGN 148,500 setup fee, and the line runs to Core 6 at NGN 1,948,500 a month plus NGN 298,500 setup for 44 cores, 1 TB of RAM and 2 x 15.36 TB of SSD. Anything beyond Core 6 is quoted to your specification.
About NGN 93.71 per GB per month up to 1 TB, NGN 80.33 up to 5 TB and NGN 66.94 up to 10 TB, with a custom quote above that. Transfer in, transfer out and API requests are free — you pay for what you store, and the figure is confirmed on your quote.
Colocation is quoted per footprint. Space, power, cross-connects and transit differ enough between deployments that a list price would be fiction. Send your rack, power and uplink requirements to [email protected] and a Naira quote comes back.
Nothing. Every plan carries a 1 Gbps port with unlimited local traffic, and object storage transfer in both directions and API requests are free.
Pay for ten months and get twelve on eligible plans. It replaces twelve payments and twelve reconciliations with one, and it fits a Nigerian budget year that resets in January.
By bank transfer or card, in Naira. Transfer is how most Nigerian businesses settle anything sizeable; a card suits monthly instances and smaller renewals.
No. It is a Naira transaction settled inside Nigeria, by card or bank transfer, so it sits outside the cap a Nigerian bank sets on international spending on a Naira card. That cap matters more than it used to: the major banks suspended international transactions on Naira cards between 2022 and 2023 and reopened them during 2025 with limits that vary by bank and get revised. A dollar-denominated hosting bill draws on that limit every month it renews; this one leaves it alone.
No. You can start without a payment method on file and add one later.
Send it to [email protected] with your registered name as the Revenue Service holds it, your billing address and any purchase-order reference before your first invoice runs, so the account is configured rather than corrected afterwards. A Nigerian buyer claiming input VAT wants both parties' identifiers, an invoice number and date, the service described, and the Naira amount with VAT on its own line.
That is a question for your tax adviser, and the answer depends on the nature of the payment and on your own status. What is certain is the paperwork around it: a WHT agent files a monthly electronic schedule carrying each supplier's TIN, address, the nature of the transaction, the amount withheld and the invoice number. Raise it at the start of the relationship and ask [email protected] for the documentation your review needs.
Since 1 January 2026, non-resident suppliers of taxable digital services to Nigerian customers are inside the VAT net — cloud computing is named explicitly — with registration through the Simplified Compliance Regime triggered above USD 25,000 of annual turnover from Nigerian customers. Where a supplier is outside that regime, the rules contemplate the Nigerian customer withholding VAT on its payments, or the Revenue Service appointing collection agents. Ask any overseas provider which route applies to your account before you sign.
Phase one covers taxpayers with turnover of ₦5 billion or more, enforced from 1 July 2026 with a 31 July 2026 compliance deadline and onboarding through an approved Access Point Provider. Ask every supplier how its invoices reach you and whether the identifiers on them let you reconcile into your fiscal flow. It is a procurement question, and it is better asked before the first order than after the first filing.
Not yet. Managed databases, load balancers, block storage and file storage are on the waitlist and carry no Nigerian price. Cloud servers, VPS plans, object storage, dedicated servers and colocation are orderable today.
In ng-1a, our Lagos region. Nairobi and Dar es Salaam are available on the same account and API for multi-region deployments, billed on the same Naira invoice.
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Payments
Settling a Nigerian invoice, in Naira
Nigeria moves money by instant bank transfer, at a scale that makes the point on its own: NIBSS has run the NIP scheme since 2011 for the Central Bank and the banks, and in the first half of 2024 alone it carried 5.63 billion transactions worth ₦476.89 trillion, up 39% in value on the half before. Cards come second, on Visa, Mastercard and Verve, the domestic scheme Interswitch operates. Opay, PalmPay and Moniepoint hold tens of millions of Nigerian accounts and reach merchants over the same transfer rail underneath. A hosting bill should behave like everything else in the ledger — a Naira amount, settled the way Nigerian business settles.
Bank transfer
The route most Nigerian business purchases take, and the natural one for anything with an approval behind it: a Core 3 at NGN 793,500 a month plus its NGN 223,500 setup fee, a fleet of instances, or a year taken at ten months for twelve. One instruction, one reference, one line for reconciliation.
Card
Visa and Mastercard, charged in Naira. Best suited to monthly instances and smaller renewals — an S2 at NGN 21,950 or a cloud server at NGN 13,890 — where a card on file is less friction than a transfer instruction every thirty days.
Naira, not a converted dollar figure
The NGN column is Nigeria's own price list, set per currency and copied from the canonical product data rather than derived from a USD rate at page load. That is what makes a twelve-month forecast possible: NGN 165,100 in March is NGN 165,100 in December, whatever the rate does in between, and a budget approved in Naira is spent in Naira.
Annual billing gives you ten months for twelve on eligible plans — one approval and one payment against a budget year rather than twelve charges to reconcile. You can start without a payment method on file and add one later.
Tax & invoicing
VAT at 7.5%, a TIN, and the 2026 rules behind both
Start with the rate, because Nigeria wins on it. VAT on cloud computing and hosting is 7.5%, administered by the Nigeria Revenue Service — the authority renamed from the Federal Inland Revenue Service, and the one everybody still calls FIRS. Kenya charges 16% and Tanzania 18% on the same class of service, so on identical infrastructure the Nigerian tax line is less than half the East African one. Every price on this page excludes VAT, and the 7.5% is calculated and shown separately at checkout, so the figure in your capacity plan and the figure on the quote agree, and the tax sits where your accountant looks for it.
The framework around the rate is new, and that is the part worth reading. The Nigeria Tax Act 2025 and the Nigeria Tax Administration Act 2025 took effect on 1 January 2026, which means most published guidance about Nigerian tax is now describing a system that no longer exists. Two provisions reach a hosting invoice. Every taxable person needs a TIN, its use is now central to how transactions are evidenced, and an individual's NIN serves as their Tax ID. And a Nigerian buyer claiming input VAT expects a document that carries the supplier's name, address and TIN, its own name, address and TIN, an invoice number and date, a description of the service supplied, and the amount in Naira with VAT shown as a separate 7.5% line and the total. That is the checklist to bring to the order rather than to the audit.
Then the rule that applies directly to a provider selling into Nigeria from outside it, and which a careful buyer should understand before signing anything. From 1 January 2026, non-resident suppliers of taxable digital services to Nigerian customers come inside the VAT net: they register with the Revenue Service, charge 7.5% on their invoices and remit it, with cloud computing named explicitly alongside streaming, advertising, software and IP rights. Registration is triggered above USD 25,000 of annual turnover from Nigerian customers and runs through the Simplified Compliance Regime, with periodic returns, remittance and retention of documentation on Nigerian-sourced transactions. Where a supplier is not inside that regime, the rules contemplate the Nigerian customer withholding the VAT on its payments instead, or the Revenue Service appointing suppliers and platforms as collection agents. Ask any overseas provider you shortlist which of those routes applies to your account, because it decides who remits the 7.5% and what your own filing looks like.
There is one line of the comparison that appears on no price list, and in Nigeria it is often the line that decides. A Naira card carries a bank-set ceiling on international spending. Between 2022 and 2023 the major Nigerian banks suspended international transactions on Naira cards outright; they reopened during 2025, with caps that vary by bank and are revised often enough that a finance team checks the current one before it commits to anything recurring. A domiciliary account is the alternative and a partial one, because funding it with Naira at scale is the constraint rather than holding it. So foreign-card headroom is a rationed resource inside a Nigerian business, and a monthly dollar invoice from an overseas host draws on it every month, indefinitely. Every figure on this page is settled in Naira, inside Nigeria, by card or bank transfer. None of it reaches that headroom, which stays where a Nigerian business needs it — on the imports and the licences that have nowhere else to come from.
One more layer, and it is already live for the largest buyers. Nigeria is rolling out mandatory e-invoicing through the Revenue Service's Merchant Buyer Solution and the national Electronic Fiscal System, covering B2B, B2G and B2C and applying to VAT-registered suppliers including foreign entities. Phase one covers large taxpayers with turnover of ₦5 billion or more: enforcement from 1 July 2026, a compliance deadline of 31 July 2026, and onboarding through an approved Access Point Provider or systems integrator. If your organisation is inside that phase, a supplier invoice that will not reconcile into your fiscal flow is a procurement problem rather than an accounting inconvenience, and it is a fair question to put to every supplier including this one.
7.5%
Nigerian VAT on cloud and hosting services (NRS)
1 Jan 2026
Nigeria Tax Act 2025 and Tax Administration Act 2025 in effect
USD 25,000
Turnover from Nigerian customers that triggers non-resident VAT registration
₦5bn
Turnover threshold for phase one e-invoicing, enforced from 1 July 2026
What to have ready before you order
Your TIN, your registered name exactly as the Revenue Service holds it, your VAT registration details, the billing address, a billing email that reaches your finance function rather than an engineer, and any purchase-order or cost-centre reference that has to appear on the document. Send those to [email protected] and the account is configured once, for every invoice afterwards, in Naira.
Withholding, for the CFO who asks first
A Nigerian corporate buyer will want to know whether it must withhold tax on a payment to a non-resident supplier and at what rate. Its WHT agent files a monthly electronic schedule listing each supplier's TIN, address, the nature of the transaction, the amount withheld and the invoice number — so the identifiers matter regardless of the answer. Put your particular purchase in front of your tax adviser at the start of the relationship, and ask [email protected] for whatever documentation that review needs.
January is the moment to fix this
Nigerian budget cycles reset in January, and the new tax regime started on the first of that month in 2026, which makes the turn of the year the natural point to review supplier invoices rather than discover a gap during an audit. If you are switching providers, doing it against a budget reset also lines the annual term up with the year you are approving.
Prices exclude VAT. Talk to [email protected] about your invoicing requirements before you order — five minutes at the start, instead of a reconciliation later.
Data residency
The line item that has a deadline attached to it
On 15 June 2026 the Central Bank of Nigeria issued circular PSS/DIR/PUB/CIR/001/004, introducing market structure requirements, data localisation, ultimate beneficial ownership disclosure and systemic oversight measures across the Nigerian payments system. It directs that payment transaction data generated within Nigeria be stored and managed in Nigeria, with full compliance from 1 January 2027. In scope are deposit money banks, microfinance banks, mobile money operators, fintechs, switching companies, payment service providers, super agents and other CBN-licensed participants.
That is why a residency section belongs next to a price list rather than in a compliance footnote. For a CBN-licensed business, in-country infrastructure moved from an architecture preference to a budget line with a date on it, and the budget it lands in is the one being approved now.
The general regime is the Nigeria Data Protection Act 2023, with the Nigeria Data Protection Commission as regulator and the General Application and Implementation Directive of 2025 in force since 19 September 2025. Section 41 governs transfers of personal data out of Nigeria, permitting them where the recipient is covered by an adequate law, binding corporate rules, contractual clauses, a code of conduct or a certification mechanism. Deploy in ng-1a and your data is held in Lagos, under Nigerian law: data residency for Nigeria's Data Protection Act. Compliance stays yours as the controller. The location is what the price on this page includes.
What you are not billed for
Why local traffic is priced at zero
Every plan carries a 1 Gbps port with unlimited local traffic, and object storage transfer in, transfer out and API requests are free. There is no per-gigabyte line to model, no overage at the end of a busy December, and no reason to put a cache in front of your own application purely to hold a bill down.
That pricing decision rests on a specific piece of Nigerian network history. Domestic traffic used to be expensive here because it was not domestic: two Nigerian networks exchanged packets by hauling them to London or Amsterdam and back, and paid international transit rates to do it. IXPN — the neutral national exchange founded in 2006 by the NCC with the Internet Service Providers Association of Nigeria — was built to end that, and now runs 13 points of presence across 7 states with more than 130 connected networks over 170 ports, and 400G-capable core switching at three Lagos sites. Peak domestic traffic across it passed 1 Tbps in April 2025 and 2 Tbps by March 2026. Traffic that stays in Nigeria is not transit, and it should not appear on an invoice as though it were.
International capacity is not scarce either. Eight subsea systems land in the country — MainOne, SAT-3, GLO-2, ACE, WACS, Equiano, 2Africa and the Nigeria Cameroon Submarine Cable System — making Lagos the densest landing point in West Africa. An origin in ng-1a sits at the point where the country's bandwidth arrives and where its domestic exchange runs, which is the cheapest place in Nigeria to put a server and the reason bandwidth does not need its own column on this page.
NGN 13,890
Smallest cloud server, per month, excluding VAT
NGN 21,950
Linux VPS, entry plan, per month
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Charge for local traffic, on every plan
10 / 12
Annual billing — pay ten months, get twelve
Build the machine, not the plan
Cloud servers are priced by the resource, per month: NGN 4,330 per vCPU, NGN 3,060 per GB of RAM, NGN 250 per GB of Universal SSD and NGN 1,500 per public IPv4, with a /64 of IPv6 free. The smallest real Linux server — 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD and one IPv4 — is NGN 13,890 a month. Bounds run to 32 vCPU, 128 GB of RAM and 16 TB of storage, and each dimension resizes on its own, so growth is one line rather than a new plan.
Fixed plans, Linux and Windows
Linux VPS: NGN 21,950, NGN 42,400, NGN 83,300, NGN 165,100, NGN 328,700 and NGN 655,900 a month, from 1 vCPU and 2 GB up to 32 vCPU and 64 GB. Windows VPS with an activated Windows Server 2022 Standard licence in the price: NGN 31,950, NGN 52,400, NGN 93,300, NGN 185,100, NGN 368,700 and NGN 735,900. Licences are also sold per vCPU on a minimum of four cores — from NGN 8,000 a server for Server 2019, NGN 10,000 for 2022 and NGN 12,000 for 2025. Linux images are free.
Dedicated hardware, storage and rack space
LineServe Core dedicated servers run from NGN 463,500 a month for 16 cores and 32 GB, through NGN 568,500, NGN 793,500, NGN 1,168,500 and NGN 1,543,500, to NGN 1,948,500 for 44 cores and 1 TB of RAM — each with a one-time setup fee from NGN 148,500 to NGN 298,500, and anything larger quoted to spec. S3-compatible object storage is about NGN 93.71 per GB per month up to 1 TB, NGN 80.33 up to 5 TB and NGN 66.94 up to 10 TB, with transfer and requests free and larger volumes quoted. Colocation in Lagos is quoted per footprint. Managed databases, load balancers, block storage and file storage are on the waitlist and carry no Nigerian price yet.
Object storage figures are confirmed on your quote. All prices exclude VAT; Nigeria's 7.5% is calculated and shown at checkout.
Who buys what
Who is doing this arithmetic in Lagos
Fintech and payments
Two lines of this price list matter disproportionately here. Object storage at NGN 66.94 to NGN 93.71 per GB with free egress, because transaction logs and audit archives grow and never shrink. And dedicated bare metal from NGN 463,500 a month plus setup for the ledger and the reconciliation database, because shared tenancy under a reconciliation workload is a conversation nobody wants to have twice. The 1 January 2027 date is why the conversation is happening in this budget year.
E-commerce
Compute billed monthly, added in late October for Black Friday and the festive weeks, released in January. That is vCPU at NGN 4,330 and RAM at NGN 3,060 a unit, on and off, rather than a plan migration in each direction. Object storage with free transfer carries the catalogue imagery through the peak without a bandwidth line appearing beside it.
Edtech
The economics run backwards from most software markets: a platform charging a few thousand Naira a month per learner cannot carry a dollar cloud price per user, so cost per user in Naira is the buying criterion. That makes the per-resource model the part of this page that gets used most — buy 2 GB more RAM at NGN 3,060 for the exam window, not the next plan up for the year.
Media and streaming
Origin storage plus egress, for a country that produces an unusual amount of its own film, music and short-form video. Free transfer in and out of object storage is the line this segment reads first, because metered egress is what makes video hosting unpredictable everywhere else.
ISPs and network operators
Several small machines rather than one large one — RADIUS, resolvers, mail relays, monitoring, looking-glass and speed-test nodes, in the NGN 13,890 to NGN 42,400 band, built by the resource and resized as the network grows. Unlimited local traffic matters more to these buyers than any headline core price, and they buy colocation and transit alongside.
Agencies and ISVs
Client sites, staging environments, reseller stacks, Git runners and client mail, bought again every quarter. The per-resource model is what this buyer uses hardest: add a vCPU at NGN 4,330 for one busy client rather than move a whole account to the next tier, and keep the Naira margin predictable across a portfolio.
Businesses coming off their own hardware
For an on-premise buyer the comparison is not against another provider's price list. It is against diesel, inverters, batteries and a generator maintenance contract, all of which move with the diesel price. A fixed Naira figure from the tables above is the entire argument, and it is a stronger one in Nigeria than in any other market on this site.
Migrating
What a Naira price changes about the total
Against a dollar-priced provider
List price against list price is the wrong comparison, because a foreign-currency bill carries costs your budget cannot see. The rate moves between the day you size the server and the day the payment clears, so the Naira figure changes every month for reasons unconnected to your usage — which makes a twelve-month forecast a guess and a board-approved number a moving target. A Naira price removes the exposure rather than hedging it. Then there is the constraint that never appears as a price at all: a foreign-currency infrastructure bill is an international transaction, and a Naira card carries a bank-set cap on those, so the bill draws every month on an allowance the business needs elsewhere. A Naira payment on domestic rails draws on nothing. Then look at the tax and invoicing treatment: which party remits the 7.5%, whether the document carries the identifiers your filing needs, and whether it can reconcile into your fiscal flow if you are inside the e-invoicing phase. Those questions decide more of the true cost than the headline rate does.
Against your own server room
The national grid collapsed on 29 December 2025 and again on 23 January 2026, with further collapses through the year, and NERC put the plant availability factor at 36% in January 2026. Nigerian business covers the gap with an estimated 14 to 20 GW of self-generation: 24 companies listed on the Nigerian Exchange spent ₦400.83 billion on diesel, gas and alternative energy in the first quarter of 2026 alone, with separately disclosed electricity expenses up more than 80% and Band A tariff increases pushing MSME input costs up by around 40%. Against numbers like those, a fixed monthly Naira line for compute is not a cost increase. It is an unpredictable operating burden converted into a budget line you can approve a year ahead.
Dedicated servers, colocation and volume commitments are quoted — send your specification to [email protected] and a Naira quote comes back.