Leaseweb's cheapest dedicated server is €51.26/mo - a promotional rate on a 2012-vintage Xeon E3-1230v2 in Frankfurt - and only on a 1-year term (€56.96 month to month), with prices excluding VAT, metered 30 TB volumes, and no control panel by default. Their unmetered 10 Gbps range starts near €960/mo. Primcast deploys in about 30 minutes from $5/mo with unmetered ports included, and radio and video on the same network.
Leaseweb sells racks to infrastructure teams. Primcast gets your sites and streams running by lunchtime.
Three dual-socket Intel Xeon pairings matched on core count, memory and disks - with their contract term and traffic cap counted in.
Identical silicon, identical memory, identical disks. Ours comes in lower once VAT is added to theirs - though their Frankfurt listing is on promo at €104.53, which wins while it lasts. Streaming is only on our side.
Same core count, same memory, same storage, and much the same monthly figure - so this one comes down to what surrounds it: our port isn't capped at 30 TB, there's no one-year term, and streaming runs on the same network.
Forty cores against their thirty-two, on matching memory and storage, for less, before VAT. They do go higher: the 48-core 5318Y build of the same R750 lists at €269.12, though the 30 TB cap comes with it.
Specs and prices come from Leaseweb's configurator and from their catalog sorted cheapest-first, read in September 2026. Their listings quote cores per CPU - double that for any dual-socket box. Euros exclude VAT; where a rate is promotional their site shows it struck through beneath a higher standard price, and both appear here. Credit where it's due: nothing we sell touches their €51.26 promotional entry machine (a one-year rate; €56.96 month to month), where our closest 32 GB build is $84.13. Their setup fee is €0 on stock servers and one-year terms and €49 on month-to-month custom builds. Ours are configurator totals for custom builds, which add a one-time $29 setup fee.
Where the platforms really differ: fees, traffic, what's in the box and how long it takes to get going.
| Primcast | Leaseweb | |
|---|---|---|
| Entry dedicated server | From $5 / mo + $13 setup | From €51.26 / mo promo in Frankfurt on a one-year term (€56.96 month to month), plus VAT |
| Setup fees | $13 on the $5 entry server, none on other instant servers; $29 once on custom builds | None on stock servers or one-year terms; €49 on month-to-month custom builds |
| Deployment time | ~30 minutes; custom builds within 24h | 1 hour on stock configs, up to 5 business days once configured; longer on a first order pending KYC |
| Bandwidth | Unmetered as standard; 10 Gbps available as a paid upgrade | Metered 30 TB volume as standard |
| Cost of unmetered 10 Gbps | A port upgrade on any build | A separate product line - from about €958/mo |
| cPanel | $49.50/mo add-on (Premier, 100 domains) - or the free ISPConfig panel | Defaults to no control panel - licence is a paid option |
| Streaming platform | Radio & live video on the same network - AutoDJ included, up to 5,000 listeners at once and 1.5 million listener hours a month | Not offered - separate provider needed |
| Contract terms | Month to month at the listed price | Month-to-month available; the 10% discount needs a 1-year term |
| Migration help | Free on every plan: planning, rebuilds and the cutover call - how it works | Self-service |
Leaseweb is the right call when you need a nine-region footprint, colocation next to your servers and a named account manager. Primcast is what you pick when you'd rather skip the 1-year term, the tax line and the five-day wait, and get a platform instead of a box: an unmetered port as standard, plus radio and live video on the same network with no per-viewer fees. From $5/mo, with free help moving off Leaseweb - planning, rebuilds and the cutover call for your sites, workloads and streams.
