Pricing — Tanzania
Server pricing in Tanzania, quoted in Tanzanian Shillings
Most infrastructure quotes a Tanzanian business receives arrive in dollars, and the real cost is only settled weeks later when the statement lands. This page works the other way round. Every figure is the shilling figure from a Tanzanian price list — not a dollar rate converted at the moment you click — so the number you approve is the number you pay. Cloud servers start at TZS 27,780 a month, a Linux VPS at TZS 43,900, dedicated hardware at TZS 772,500. Below the numbers is the part hosting quotes usually leave out here: what happens to the 18%, and what your accounts team does with the receipt.
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 | TZS 8,660 |
| RAM | per GB | TZS 6,120 |
| Storage — Universal SSD | per GB | TZS 500 |
| Public IPv4 | per address | TZS 3,000 |
| Windows Server 2019 Standard | per server | From TZS 16,000 |
| Windows Server 2022 Standard | per server | From TZS 20,000 |
| Windows Server 2025 Standard | per server | From TZS 24,000 |
| 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 | TZS 772,500 | TZS 247,500 | 16c / 32t | 32 GB | 2 × 480 GB SSD |
| LineServe Core 2 | TZS 947,500 | TZS 247,500 | 24c / 48t | 64 GB | 2 × 960 GB SSD |
| LineServe Core 3Popular | TZS 1,322,500 | TZS 372,500 | 32c / 64t | 128 GB | 2 × 1.92 TB SSD |
| LineServe Core 4 | TZS 1,947,500 | TZS 372,500 | 36c / 72t | 256 GB | 2 × 3.84 TB SSD |
| LineServe Core 5 | TZS 2,572,500 | TZS 497,500 | 40c / 80t | 512 GB | 2 × 7.68 TB SSD |
| LineServe Core 6 | TZS 3,247,500 | TZS 497,500 | 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 | TZS 156.19 / GB |
| Growth | Up to 5 TB | TZS 133.88 / GB |
| Business | Up to 10 TB | TZS 111.56 / GB |
| Enterprise | 10 TB+ | TZS 89.25 / 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 | TZS 255,000 | 1U | 1A / 120 W |
| Quarter rack | TZS 2,550,000 | 10U | 500 W |
| Half rackPopular | TZS 5,355,000 | 21U | 1 kW, A+B |
| Full rack | TZS 10,710,000 | 42U | 3 kW, A+B |
| Private cage | Quote | Custom | Custom |
Power above your footprint's allowance is TZS 1,275,000 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 TZS
Settle by M-Pesa and other mobile money, bank transfer, or card. Billed in TZS, 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 TZS figures are Tanzania's own price list, set per currency and copied from the canonical product data — not a dollar rate converted at runtime. The number on the card is the number on the invoice.
TZS. You can view prices in USD, KES, TZS or NGN, but as a Tanzanian customer you are quoted, invoiced and settled in shillings, with no forex conversion and no foreign-transaction fee.
No. Prices exclude VAT. The mainland standard rate is 18% and it applies to digital and electronic services; it is calculated and shown separately at checkout.
From TZS 27,780 a month for 1 vCPU, 1 GB of RAM, 20 GB of SSD and one IPv4. Beyond that it is TZS 8,660 per vCPU, TZS 6,120 per GB of RAM, TZS 500 per GB of Universal SSD and TZS 3,000 per additional IPv4, each per month. IPv6 is free.
Linux plans are TZS 43,900, TZS 84,800, TZS 166,600, TZS 330,200, TZS 657,400 and TZS 1,311,800 a month. Windows plans, with the Windows Server 2022 Standard licence included, are TZS 63,900, TZS 104,800, TZS 186,600, TZS 370,200, TZS 737,400 and TZS 1,471,800.
LineServe Core 1 is TZS 772,500 a month plus a one-time TZS 247,500 setup fee, and the line runs to Core 6 at TZS 3,247,500 a month plus TZS 497,500 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.
Around TZS 156.19 per GB per month up to 1 TB, TZS 133.88 up to 5 TB and TZS 111.56 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 you get a shilling quote back.
Nothing. Every plan includes 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 lines up with an annual budget or grant cycle instead of cutting across it, and it replaces twelve card charges with one payment and one document.
That depends on your own VAT registration and on the receipt. Tanzanian input-VAT recovery turns on holding a valid invoice with the required identifiers and a verification code under EFD protocol 2.1. Send [email protected] your TIN, registered name and invoicing requirements before you order so the document is right from the first billing run, and confirm the treatment of the purchase with your tax adviser.
Send it to [email protected] with your registered name and any purchase-order reference before your first invoice runs, and it is set up on the account rather than corrected afterwards.
A Tanzanian business paying a non-resident for services withholds 15% of the gross consideration unless a double tax agreement reduces it, and this applies irrespective of where the service is performed. Whether it applies to your particular purchase is a question for your tax adviser, and [email protected] can supply whatever documentation that review needs.
A 2% digital service tax applies on gross payments to non-resident providers within Tanzania's electronic-services rules, in addition to VAT. Your adviser will place your own purchase against those rules; ask us for the paperwork.
The infrastructure and the prices are the same — tz-1a in Dar es Salaam, quoted in shillings. Zanzibar administers VAT on digital services separately through the Zanzibar Revenue Authority, so confirm your own treatment with your adviser before ordering.
A Core 1 is TZS 772,500 a month plus a TZS 247,500 setup fee, which is normally a bank transfer rather than a wallet payment. Mobile money suits monthly instances and smaller renewals; transfers suit anything with a signature behind it.
Not yet. Managed databases, load balancers, block storage and file storage are on the waitlist and carry no Tanzanian price. Compute, object storage, dedicated servers and colocation are orderable today.
In tz-1a, our Dar es Salaam region. Nairobi and Lagos are available on the same account and API for multi-region deployments, billed on the same shilling invoice.
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Payments
Paying from Tanzania, in shillings
Tanzania's mobile money market is four-way and no wallet owns it. TCRA's March 2026 count puts M-Pesa — Vodacom Tanzania's — at 40.97% of registered accounts, Mixx by Yas at 31.02% and Airtel Money at 17.79%, with HaloPesa holding most of the remainder, across 80.98 million accounts and 1.99 billion transactions in a single quarter. Behind them the Bank of Tanzania's instant payment system, TIPS, connects banks, wallets and licensed providers and moved US$11.6 billion in 2024. Money in Tanzania moves in seconds and moves in shillings, and a hosting bill that arrives in dollars on a foreign card is out of step with everything else in the ledger.
M-Pesa
Pay in shillings from a wallet, with the price on the card matching the amount on the invoice. Nothing converts, nothing lands on the statement as an international transaction, and no bank adds a foreign-transaction fee to it. Best suited to monthly instances and smaller renewals.
Bank transfer
The route most Tanzanian business purchases take. A dedicated Core 3 at TZS 1,322,500 a month plus its TZS 372,500 setup fee, or a year of a VPS fleet paid at ten months for twelve, goes as a transfer with a reference your reconciliation picks up.
Card
Visa and Mastercard, billed in TZS. Tanzanian card use is thin and heavily ATM-skewed, so cards sit at the end of this list on purpose — they are available when finance prefers one, not the default assumption for this market.
Annual billing gives you ten months for twelve on eligible plans, which fits a grant year or a budget cycle rather than cutting across it. You can start without a card and add a payment method later.
Tax & invoicing
VAT, your TIN, and the receipt your VAT return needs
Start with the rate, because it is the easy part. Mainland VAT is 18%, administered by the Tanzania Revenue Authority, and 18% applies to digital and electronic services. Zanzibar administers its own VAT on digital services separately through the Zanzibar Revenue Authority. Every price on this page excludes VAT, and the tax is calculated and shown separately at checkout — so your infrastructure budget line and the quote carry the same number, and the tax sits where your accountant expects to find it.
The part that actually decides whether your finance team is happy is the receipt. Tanzania is exact about this in a way most markets are not. Mainland suppliers turning over TZS 14 million a year or more issue receipts through an Electronic Fiscal Device, and under EFD protocol 2.1 every invoice carries a verification code; without the code the EFD Management System does not accept the document, and input tax cannot be claimed against it. A VAT-registered buyer therefore holds a specific document, not merely a payment confirmation from an inbox — which is exactly what a dollar receipt from an overseas provider usually turns out to be when someone finally reads it in April.
So bring the checklist to the order. Your TIN and registered name as the TRA holds them. The supplier's name and identifiers. A unique invoice number. The service and the period it covers. The taxable value, with the VAT stated separately rather than buried in a total. A purchase-order reference if your system needs one to match a payment. Send that to [email protected] before the first instance is created and it is configured once, for every invoice afterwards, in shillings.
Two further Tanzanian lines belong in the same conversation. A business paying a non-resident for services withholds 15% of the gross consideration unless a double tax agreement reduces it, and since the 2016 amendment that obligation applies irrespective of where the service is performed. Separately, a 2% digital service tax applies on gross payments to non-resident providers inside the electronic-services rules, on top of VAT. Neither is a surprise to a Tanzanian tax adviser and neither is a reason to buy differently — but a CFO will ask about both on the first call, so bring them up on the first call.
18%
Mainland VAT on digital and electronic services (TRA)
TZS 14M
Turnover at which a mainland supplier fiscalises receipts
2.1
EFD protocol — the invoice verification code your claim needs
15%
Withholding on payments to a non-resident for services
What to have ready before you order
Your TIN, your registered name exactly as the TRA holds it, your VAT registration number if you have one, the billing email that reaches your finance function rather than an engineer, and any purchase-order or grant code that has to appear on the document. Five fields, sent once, and every invoice for the year is right.
If you are in Zanzibar
The Zanzibar Revenue Authority administers VAT on digital services separately from the mainland regime, so a Zanzibar-registered buyer should confirm its own treatment with its adviser before ordering. The infrastructure is identical either way — tz-1a in Dar es Salaam, priced in shillings — and the paperwork is what differs.
Buying against a grant or an annual budget
Ask for the annual invoice at the point of order. Ten months for twelve on eligible plans, one document, one approval, one payment inside the budget year, and no monthly card charge for a programme accountant to chase across twelve statements. This is why donor-funded buyers in Dar es Salaam tend to take the annual term.
Prices exclude VAT. Talk to [email protected] about your invoicing requirements before you order — it takes five minutes now and saves a reconciliation later.
Data residency
The permit line that never appears on your budget
Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act, 2022 — Chapter 44 — has been in force since 1 May 2023, with the Personal Data Protection Commission fully operational since 3 April 2024. Controllers and processors register with the Commission before processing, for five years at a time; the deadline for entities already trading expired on 30 April 2025.
Personal data leaves Tanzania on a permit from the Commission. The Regulation 20 application asks for the applicant and the recipient, the data subjects, the categories of data, the purpose and duration of the transfer, the destination country and entity, and the security arrangements there — and the Commission may approve it, come back for more, or refuse, then monitor the conditions afterwards. That is prior authorisation, and prior authorisation costs time, adviser fees and a dependency on somebody else's calendar.
Hosting in tz-1a takes that cost off the table for the data that stays. Your data is held in Dar es Salaam, under Tanzanian law, where your regulator can see it — data residency for Tanzania's Personal Data Protection Act. Compliance remains 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 surprise at the end of a busy month, and no reason to put a cache in front of your own application just to keep a bill down.
That pricing decision rests on Tanzanian geography. Traffic between Tanzanian networks is exchanged in Dar es Salaam at TIX, the exchange TISPA has run since 2003 — PeeringDB records 32 networks, 33 connections and 798G of connected capacity, at roughly 90% IPv6, with Akamai, Meta, TTCL, Cloudflare and Liquid present. Peering there carries no port, cross-connect or membership fee at all. Five more TISPA exchanges cover Arusha, Dodoma, Mbeya, Mwanza and Zanzibar. Domestic traffic in Tanzania is cheap because Tanzania built the places to exchange it.
Inland the National ICT Broadband Backbone carries the load — government fibre managed by TTCL, 13,820 km laid of a 16,280 km target as of FY2024/25, reaching every region and crossing into Zambia, Malawi, Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda and Burundi. International capacity comes ashore in the same city, on SEACOM, EASSy and SEAS, with Dar es Salaam a named landing point on 2Africa. Your origin sits where the cables land and where the backbone begins, which is the cheapest possible place to put it.
TZS 27,780
Smallest cloud server, per month, excluding VAT
TZS 43,900
Linux VPS, entry plan, per month
0
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: TZS 8,660 per vCPU, TZS 6,120 per GB of RAM, TZS 500 per GB of Universal SSD and TZS 3,000 per public IPv4, with a /64 of IPv6 free. The smallest real Linux server — 1 vCPU, 1 GB RAM, 20 GB SSD, one IPv4 — is TZS 27,780 a month. Bounds run to 32 vCPU, 128 GB of RAM and 16 TB of storage, and each dimension resizes independently, so growth costs one line rather than a new plan.
Fixed plans, Linux and Windows
Linux VPS: TZS 43,900, TZS 84,800, TZS 166,600, TZS 330,200, TZS 657,400 and TZS 1,311,800 a month, from 1 vCPU / 2 GB up to 32 vCPU / 64 GB. Windows VPS with an activated Windows Server 2022 Standard licence in the price: TZS 63,900, TZS 104,800, TZS 186,600, TZS 370,200, TZS 737,400 and TZS 1,471,800. Licences are also sold per vCPU on a minimum of four cores — from TZS 16,000 a server for Server 2019, TZS 20,000 for 2022 and TZS 24,000 for 2025. Linux images are free.
Dedicated hardware and storage
LineServe Core dedicated servers run from TZS 772,500 a month for 16 cores and 32 GB, through TZS 947,500, TZS 1,322,500, TZS 1,947,500 and TZS 2,572,500, to TZS 3,247,500 for 44 cores and 1 TB of RAM — each with a one-time setup fee from TZS 247,500 to TZS 497,500, and anything beyond quoted to spec. S3-compatible object storage is around TZS 156.19 per GB per month up to 1 TB, TZS 133.88 up to 5 TB and TZS 111.56 up to 10 TB, with transfer and requests free and larger volumes quoted. Colocation in Dar es Salaam is quoted per footprint. Managed databases, load balancers, block storage and file storage are on the waitlist and carry no Tanzanian price yet.
Object storage figures are confirmed on your quote. All prices exclude VAT; 18% is calculated and shown at checkout.
Who buys what
Who is doing this arithmetic in Dar es Salaam
NGOs and donor programmes
TANGO alone counts over 485 member organisations, and the international programmes run their country operations from Dar es Salaam. DHIS2 and other M&E platforms, KoBoToolbox and ODK form servers, offline file sync for field teams, donor dashboards, ERPNext or Odoo for grant accounting. A working M&E server sits in the TZS 84,800 to TZS 166,600 band, taken annually at ten months for twelve to match the grant year.
ISPs and network operators
RADIUS and AAA, resolvers and authoritative zones, mail relays, billing portals, monitoring and looking-glass nodes. Several small machines rather than one large one — the TZS 27,780 to TZS 84,800 band, built by the resource and resized as the network grows. Unlimited local traffic matters more to these buyers than a headline CPU price.
Logistics and freight forwarding
Transport management systems, customs integration middleware, telematics ingest from truck fleets, container tracking portals. Continuous small writes all day and a reporting spike at month end, which is an argument for a resizable machine in the TZS 166,600 to TZS 657,400 band rather than a fixed box sized for the worst hour.
Mining, agri-export and their contractors
Gold exports reached USD 4,968.4 million in 2025. Site-to-cloud aggregation, geological and survey data stores, HSE and contractor management, procurement portals, warehouse receipt and traceability systems for coffee, cashew and tobacco. Data-heavy and steady, which usually means a large VPS or a LineServe Core from TZS 772,500 plus setup.
Agencies and ISVs
Dar es Salaam holds 66.5% of Tanzanian startups, concentrated on the Ali Hassan Mwinyi Road corridor. Client sites, staging environments, reseller stacks, Git runners. They buy repeatedly, which makes the per-resource model the part of this price list they use most — add a vCPU at TZS 8,660 rather than jump a whole tier.
Tourism operators
2.29 million international arrivals and USD 3.9 billion in travel receipts in 2025, run from Arusha and Zanzibar as much as from Dar es Salaam. Booking engines, channel managers, property management integrations. Guests are overseas, so the shape is an origin here with a CDN in front; the reservations desk, the rates and the reporting are local and live on the origin all day.
Migrating
What a shilling price changes about the total
Against a dollar invoice
List price against list price is the wrong comparison, because a USD-billed provider adds three costs your budget cannot see. The exchange rate moves between the day you size the server and the day the payment clears. The card issuer takes its own margin on every charge, and most Tanzanian banks add a foreign-transaction fee on top. And the shilling figure changes every month for reasons that have nothing to do with your usage, which makes a twelve-month forecast a guess. A shilling price removes the exposure rather than hedging it: TZS 166,600 this month is TZS 166,600 next month, in a country whose headline inflation was 3.6% in December 2025. For a programme working to a grant line or a firm quoting annual rates, that predictability is worth more than a small headline discount — and it is why domestic pricing in Tanzania has been shilling-denominated since the regulations took effect in March 2025.
Against another local host
Compare the things a price table hides. Is bandwidth metered or included? Is there an SLA with a stated remedy, or an uptime claim with nothing behind it? Is there an API and a CLI, or only a control panel and a support ticket? Does the invoice carry the identifiers your VAT return needs? And can you move from a TZS 43,900 VPS to a TZS 3,247,500 dedicated machine, and put object storage and a second region beside them, without changing supplier and re-signing everything? That ladder is one account here, which is the difference that shows up in year two rather than in week one.
Dedicated servers, colocation and volume commitments are quoted — talk to [email protected] or call +255 761 847 121.