Pricing — in US dollars, for regions in three countries
One price list, three countries, three tax authorities
The rate card is the easy half. A cloud server is $13.89 a month, a Linux VPS $21.95, a Windows VPS $31.95 with the licence in the price, a LineServe Core 1 $309 plus a one-time $99 setup, and object storage $0.061 per GB with transfer and API requests free. The half nobody prices for you is what happens when one purchase has to satisfy a finance function in Amsterdam or Boston and a tax authority in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam or Lagos at once. Kenya charges 16% VAT on hosting, Tanzania 18%, Nigeria 7.5% — three rates, three authorities, and a decision about which of them reaches your ledger. That decision is the rest of this page.
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 | $4.33 |
| RAM | per GB | $3.06 |
| Storage — Universal SSD | per GB | $0.25 |
| Public IPv4 | per address | $1.50 |
| Windows Server 2019 Standard | per server | From $8 |
| Windows Server 2022 Standard | per server | From $10 |
| Windows Server 2025 Standard | per server | From $12 |
| 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 | $309 | $99 | 16c / 32t | 32 GB | 2 × 480 GB SSD |
| LineServe Core 2 | $379 | $99 | 24c / 48t | 64 GB | 2 × 960 GB SSD |
| LineServe Core 3Popular | $529 | $149 | 32c / 64t | 128 GB | 2 × 1.92 TB SSD |
| LineServe Core 4 | $779 | $149 | 36c / 72t | 256 GB | 2 × 3.84 TB SSD |
| LineServe Core 5 | $1,029 | $199 | 40c / 80t | 512 GB | 2 × 7.68 TB SSD |
| LineServe Core 6 | $1,299 | $199 | 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 | $0.061 / GB |
| Growth | Up to 5 TB | $0.052 / GB |
| Business | Up to 10 TB | $0.044 / GB |
| Enterprise | 10 TB+ | $0.035 / 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 | $100 | 1U | 1A / 120 W |
| Quarter rack | $1,000 | 10U | 500 W |
| Half rackPopular | $2,100 | 21U | 1 kW, A+B |
| Full rack | $4,200 | 42U | 3 kW, A+B |
| Private cage | Quote | Custom | Custom |
Power above your footprint's allowance is $500 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 USD
Settle by card or bank transfer — with local methods like M-Pesa available in our local markets. Billed in USD, 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.
Yes, and it is the default. You are quoted, invoiced and settled in USD by card or bank transfer, whichever of the three regions you deploy into. Switching to the Kenya, Tanzania or Nigeria market changes the currency to KES, TZS or NGN, and the payment methods with it.
No. Each currency has its own price list, copied from the canonical product data rather than derived from an exchange rate at page load. That is why a KES or NGN figure approved in March is the same figure in November.
No. Displayed prices exclude tax, and where VAT applies it is calculated and shown separately at checkout. The domestic rates are 16% in Kenya, 18% on the Tanzanian mainland and 7.5% in Nigeria.
It follows which market bills you, not which region your instance runs in. Buying centrally from outside all three countries, you are invoiced in dollars and the treatment that applies is your own jurisdiction's — most systems account for imported services on the buyer's side. Buying through the Kenya, Tanzania or Nigeria market puts you inside that country's regime.
Yes, and that is the default: one account, one USD invoice, however many regions you use. If you would rather each subsidiary held its own account in its own currency so the cost lands in the right ledger, that works too — arrange it before you order rather than after the first billing run.
No. Per-unit prices are the same in all three regions, so a two-country deployment costs twice a one-country deployment and nothing else changes. What differs between the countries is tax, currency and payment rails, not the rate card.
No. The account is yours wherever you are, and the region is a choice at deploy time. A local entity changes how you would like to be billed and taxed, not whether you can run in ke-1a, tz-1a or ng-1a.
Often, yes. Lineserve Limited is a Kenyan company registered for VAT in Kenya, so a Kenyan buyer purchasing through the Kenya market receives a Kenyan tax invoice in shillings with the 16% shown separately, from a supplier in its own jurisdiction. A Kenyan business needs a valid tax invoice carrying its own KRA PIN to claim the expense and the input VAT.
That depends on which entity pays, and from where. Withholding arises where a local entity pays a non-resident supplier — a Tanzanian business withholds 15% of the gross consideration on a payment to a non-resident for services unless a double tax agreement reduces it, and Nigeria's 2025 legislation carries its own schedule. A buyer paying centrally from outside all three countries is generally outside those rules. Put your own purchase to your adviser, and ask [email protected] for the documentation that review needs.
Nothing on cloud servers and VPS plans, which include a 1 Gbps port with unlimited local traffic. Object storage charges for what you store, with transfer in, transfer out and API requests free.
Ten months for twelve on eligible plans. On a multi-country estate it is worth taking per entity at the point of order, so each budget year gets one approval, one payment and one document rather than twelve charges to reconcile.
Colocation is quoted per footprint rather than sold from a price list, in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam and Lagos alike — space, power, cross-connects and transit differ enough between deployments that a list price would be fiction. Send your rack layout, power draw and uplink requirement to [email protected].
Not yet — those are on the waitlist. Cloud servers, VPS plans, managed Kubernetes, object storage, dedicated servers and colocation are orderable today.
Customer references are available under NDA. Tell [email protected] what you are building and which country it is for, and you will be pointed at the closest match.
Tell [email protected] which one, and what you would run there. Uganda, South Africa and Ghana are the regions in planning, and colocation in the three live cities covers the case where you need your own hardware in a specific building.
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Payments
Two rails from anywhere, and a third if you have an entity in-country
From outside Kenya, Tanzania and Nigeria you are quoted in dollars and settle in dollars: a dollar price list, a card or a transfer, a renewal date. The choice underneath is the interesting one, because each of the three countries has its own market on this site with its own price list in its own currency — and if you have a subsidiary or a branch there, it can be the entity that buys.
Card, in USD
Visa and Mastercard, charged in dollars. The rail for monthly instances, and for the first months while an architecture is still moving. A cloud server at $13.89 or a Linux L1 at $83.30 does not need a procurement process behind it.
Bank transfer, in USD
What procurement is already built for, and what anything sizeable takes. A LineServe Core 3 at $529 a month with a one-time $149 setup, instances across two regions, or a year taken up front at ten months for twelve: one instruction, one reference, one line your reconciliation picks up.
Or let the local entity pay locally
Switch market and the price list changes currency rather than applying a conversion. A Kenyan subsidiary settles in KES with M-Pesa alongside bank transfer and card, a Tanzanian one in TZS on the same three rails, a Nigerian one in NGN by bank transfer or card. Each currency carries its own maintained price list, so the figure a local finance team approves in March is the figure that clears in November.
Which you want depends on the ledger: buy centrally in dollars where the cost belongs to the parent, locally where it has to sit inside a subsidiary's VAT return. Mixed estates work too. Annual billing is ten months for twelve on eligible plans, and you can start without a payment method on file. Displayed prices exclude tax; where VAT applies it is calculated and shown at checkout.
Tax & invoicing
Which of three tax regimes reaches your invoice, and who gets to decide
Start with the rates, because they are the part that holds still. Kenya charges 16% on digital and hosting services, administered by the Kenya Revenue Authority, whose published list of taxable digital services names email hosting and cloud backup outright. Tanzania's mainland rate is 18%, administered by the Tanzania Revenue Authority, with the Zanzibar Revenue Authority administering digital-services VAT separately. Nigeria charges 7.5% on cloud computing and hosting, administered by the Nigeria Revenue Service — the body renamed from FIRS, which is what most Nigerian buyers still call it. On identical hardware the Tanzanian tax line is nearly two and a half times the Nigerian one.
Then the sentence that saves the most time on a first call: which of those rates touches your invoice follows the buyer, not the region. Run a database in ng-1a and be invoiced in dollars against a head office in Rotterdam, and Nigeria's 7.5% is not a line on your document. Have your Lagos subsidiary buy the same instance through the Nigeria market and it is billed in Naira with 7.5% shown separately, inside the Nigerian regime and claimable through the Nigerian return. The instance is identical either way. The paperwork is not, and the paperwork is what your finance function is really choosing between.
Where the buyer sits outside all three countries, the treatment that matters is your own. Most VAT and GST systems account for imported services on the buyer's side rather than the supplier's — a mechanism your finance team has already run for every other cloud invoice it receives — and the invoice carries the service, the period and the taxable value that treatment needs.
Kenya is where a local entity changes the document most. Lineserve Limited is a Kenyan company registered for VAT in Kenya, so a Kenyan buyer purchasing through the Kenya market receives a Kenyan tax invoice from a Kenyan supplier at 16%, in shillings, rather than a foreign receipt to be argued about at year end. A Kenyan business needs a valid tax invoice carrying its own KRA PIN to claim the expense and the input VAT, so for a group with a Kenyan subsidiary this is usually the deciding detail.
Tanzania and Nigeria each add a mechanic that surprises buyers who have only bought infrastructure in Europe or North America. In Tanzania a VAT-registered buyer claims input tax against a receipt carrying a verification code under Electronic Fiscal Device protocol 2.1; without the code the document does not clear the EFD Management System. Since GN 198 of 2025 took effect in March 2025, domestic Tanzanian transactions are quoted and paid in shillings — a rule aimed at trade inside Tanzania, with payments by Tanzanian entities to foreign recipients among its named exemptions. In Nigeria the framework changed wholesale on 1 January 2026: non-resident suppliers of digital services register above USD 25,000 of annual turnover from Nigerian customers, and mandatory e-invoicing began phase one enforcement on 1 July 2026 for taxpayers turning over ₦5 billion or more. Ask every provider you shortlist which route applies to your account, because it decides who remits the 7.5%.
Withholding is the last question and the one a CFO raises first. It arises where a local entity pays a non-resident supplier, and it varies by country and by treaty: a Tanzanian business withholds 15% of the gross consideration on a payment to a non-resident for services unless a double tax agreement reduces it, and Nigeria's 2025 legislation carries its own schedule. A buyer purchasing centrally from outside all three countries is generally outside those rules, which is one of the quieter reasons head offices prefer to hold the contract.
16%
Kenya VAT on digital and hosting services (KRA)
18%
Tanzania mainland VAT on digital and electronic services (TRA)
7.5%
Nigeria VAT on cloud computing and hosting (NRS)
1
USD invoice covering all three regions, if you want it that way
Decide who the buyer is before you order
Changing the billing entity after the first invoice means credit notes, a reissued document and a conversation with somebody's auditor. Changing it beforehand costs one email. Tell [email protected] which legal entity should appear on the invoice, in which currency, and whether the regions are consolidated onto one account or split so each subsidiary carries its own cost.
What a claimable invoice carries, in all three countries
Much the same checklist: the supplier's registered name and identifiers, your own tax identifier, a unique invoice number and date, the service and the period, the taxable value, and the tax on its own line rather than folded into a total. Send [email protected] the identifiers for every entity that will appear on an invoice — a KRA PIN, a TRA TIN, a Nigerian TIN — plus any purchase-order reference, and the account is configured once instead of corrected quarterly.
Prices exclude VAT. Nigeria's tax framework changed wholesale on 1 January 2026, so guidance written before that date describes a system that has since been replaced — worth checking the date on anything your team is working from.
Data residency
The compliance work a region removes, and what it costs
Three countries, three statutes, three regulators — Kenya's Data Protection Act, No. 24 of 2019, Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act, 2022 and Nigeria's Data Protection Act 2023 — and all three attach conditions to moving personal data out of the country. The conditions differ, and they cost different amounts. Kenya permits a transfer on proof of appropriate safeguards, with Regulation 26 going further for six named purposes and requiring at least one serving copy inside Kenya. Nigeria's section 41 permits transfer where the recipient is covered by an adequate law, binding corporate rules, contractual clauses or a certification mechanism, and a Central Bank circular of 15 June 2026 directs that payment transaction data generated in Nigeria be stored and managed there from 1 January 2027. Tanzania is the strictest: personal data leaves on a permit from the Commission, applied for with the recipient, the data categories, the purpose and the destination security arrangements set out. That is prior authorisation, and it finishes when a regulator says so.
Put the data in the country and none of that machinery has anything to act on. What you deploy into ke-1a, tz-1a or ng-1a is held in Nairobi, Dar es Salaam or Lagos, under that country's law, and it is not moved out without your instruction — data residency for Kenya's Data Protection Act, Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act and Nigeria's Data Protection Act. Your assessments, lawful basis, notices and registrations stay with your own compliance function.
On a pricing page the reason to spell that out is arithmetic. Adviser time to paper a transfer mechanism, keep it current and explain it to somebody else's auditor is a real budget line, repeated annually, in three jurisdictions if you operate in three. A cloud server in the country is $13.89 a month. Set those two figures beside each other before calling the in-country tier the expensive option.
Bandwidth
The line that is not on the invoice
Cloud servers and VPS plans include a 1 Gbps port with unlimited local traffic. Object storage charges for what you store, with transfer in, transfer out and API requests free. There is no per-gigabyte column to model, no overage arriving after a busy month, and no reason to put a cache in front of your own application purely to hold a bill down.
For a buyer used to metered egress that changes how a deployment gets designed, not only what it costs: serving a video catalogue, a map tile layer or a software update channel to users in these cities stops being an exercise in rationing bytes. The pricing works because the traffic is genuinely domestic. Kenyan networks exchange it in Nairobi at KIXP, where ke-1a peers; Tanzanian networks exchange it in Dar es Salaam at TIX; Nigerian networks exchange it at IXPN in Lagos. None of it is hauled to Europe and back, and traffic that stays in the country is not transit.
$0
Charge for local traffic, on every cloud server and VPS plan
$0
Object storage transfer in, transfer out and API requests
1 Gbps
Port on cloud servers and VPS plans
$0.035
Object storage per GB per month above 10 TB
Who buys what
What an international buyer is usually pricing
The same list reads differently depending on why you are here. These are the shapes that arrive most often from outside the three countries.
A regional tier under an existing platform
You run in Frankfurt or northern Virginia, and enough customers in one of these cities have started mentioning the loading time. The usual answer is not a migration: application servers and a read replica in-country, control plane left where it is, DNS routing each user to the nearer origin. A cloud server at $13.89 a month, or an L1 at $83.30 once it carries real traffic.
A regulated workload with a date attached
Payment endpoints, ledgers, reconciliation databases, KYC document stores and transaction logs that grow and never shrink. Nigeria is the sharpest case: payment transaction data generated in the country is directed to be stored and managed there from 1 January 2027. Bare metal is the usual shape for the ledger, from a Core 1 at $309 a month plus a one-time $99 setup to a Core 6 at $1,299 for 44 cores and 1 TB of RAM.
A donor programme or an NGO country office
DHIS2 and other monitoring platforms, KoboToolbox and ODK form servers taking submissions from field teams on mobile data, grant accounting, file sync for staff days away from a city. A working monitoring server sits between $42.40 and $83.30 a month, taken annually at ten months for twelve so the billing year matches the funding year.
Media, streaming and anything that ships bytes
Origin storage plus egress is the shape distance punishes hardest, and metered transfer is what makes it unpredictable. Object storage is $0.061 per GB per month up to 1 TB, $0.053 up to 5 TB, $0.044 up to 10 TB and $0.035 above that, with transfer and requests free. Tanzania is worth checking on a map: with no content-network edge in the country, a Dar es Salaam viewer is served from somewhere else however the CDN is configured.
Platform teams pricing Kubernetes and Windows
Managed Kubernetes is a cluster fee plus what the workers consume: $27.86 a month for the Basic control plane, $116.34 for the Fault Tolerant three-master plane, then $6.66 per vCPU and $3.06 per GB of RAM. Windows Server is billed per vCPU on a minimum of four cores, from $2 for 2019 Standard, or included in a Windows VPS from $31.95. Linux images are free.
Cloud servers are priced by the resource, per month: $4.33 per vCPU, $3.06 per GB of RAM, $0.25 per GB of Universal SSD and $1.50 per public IPv4, with a /64 of IPv6 free and every dimension resizing on its own. Colocation is quoted per footprint in all three cities.
Comparing
Against a global cloud, and against three local suppliers
Against your current provider's nearest region
The comparison is rarely per-vCPU, because the alternative is not the same product. No hyperscaler runs a cloud region in Kenya, Tanzania or Nigeria: Amazon's African region is Cape Town, Microsoft's is in South Africa, and what sits in Nairobi and Lagos is edge — local zones, content delivery, interconnect — with the compute in another country. So the real line items are the ones you already pay elsewhere. Metered egress on every byte served across an ocean. Adviser time papering a cross-border transfer for data that could have stayed put. A procurement form asking which country the data is held in, and an answer that costs you the deal.
Against three local suppliers in three countries
Buying locally in each country is the honest alternative, and plenty of teams start there. What it costs is on no price list: three contracts under three legal systems, three currencies in the ledger, three renewal dates, three sets of bank details, three support relationships. Compare instead on what is identical across all three here — one account, one API and one invoice, the same per-unit prices in each city, the same 99.9% uptime SLA with service credits, the same console and CLI. Then compare the ladder: moving from a $13.89 cloud server to a $1,299 dedicated machine, with object storage and a second country beside it, without changing supplier.
Dedicated servers, colocation and volume commitments are quoted rather than sold from a price list. Tell [email protected] what you run, where your users are and which entity should be billed, and the reply is an architecture and a quote rather than a brochure. Migration planning and assistance are included at no extra charge.