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Buy MikroTik VPS Hosting — RouterOS CHR for Network Engineers
Need a MikroTik router without buying the hardware? Our CHR-based VPS runs the exact RouterOS you already know, BGP, WireGuard, hotspot, the works, deployed in under five minutes. Pay with Bitcoin, Ethereum, or a card.
✅ Deploy time: < 5 min ✅ Licensing: P1 → Unlimited
✅ Access: Full root ✅ Support: 24/7 network
What is MikroTik CHR, exactly?
CHR (Cloud Hosted Router) is MikroTik's official virtual-appliance build of RouterOS, the same software your CCR or hAP runs, just packaged to boot on a VM instead of dedicated hardware. Nothing is stripped down: firewall, queues, VPN, dynamic routing, all of it works exactly the way you're used to.
The only thing that changes is licensing, which is based on throughput rather than hardware. Every plan below ships with a free P1 license out of the box, plenty for testing, VPNs, and most single-site routing. If you outgrow the 1 Gbps cap, upgrading to P10 or P-Unlimited takes a few minutes in the panel.
| P1 | 1 Gbps cap | included free |
| P10 | 10 Gbps cap | upgrade in panel |
| P-Unlimited | no cap | upgrade in panel |
A CHR instance vs. a physical router, honestly compared
A CCR or hAP is a fine piece of hardware, but it's also a fixed upfront cost, a shipping wait, and a single point of failure sitting in a rack somewhere. A CHR instance here starts at $7.77/month, even a modest rack-mount CCR usually costs several hundred dollars before you've configured anything, so the break-even point is further out than it feels. Here's the fuller trade-off, no sales spin:
Physical MikroTik
- No monthly hosting bill, full LAN throughput
- Physical Wi-Fi radios, SFP ports if you need them
- Upfront cost, shipping, and a real lead time
- You're the one swapping it if it dies at 2 a.m.
- Scaling means buying another box
CHR on a VPS
- Live in minutes, no shipping, no rack space
- Resize CPU/RAM without touching a screwdriver
- Snapshot before a risky change, roll back if it breaks
- Predictable monthly cost, cancel anytime
- No physical radios, this is a router, not an access point
Pick a plan, get root in minutes
CPU : 1 Core
RAM : 512 MB
Storage : 15GB
Bandwidth: 0.50 TB
Port : 1 Gbps
IP4 : 1 Free 
CPU : 1 Core
RAM : 1024 MB
Storage : 15 GB
Bandwidth: 1 TB
Port : 1 Gbps
IP4 : 1 Free
CPU : 1 Core
RAM : 2048 MB
Storage : 15 GB
Bandwidth: 2 TB
Port : 1 Gbps
IP4 : 1 Free
CPU : 2 Core
RAM : 4096 MB
Storage : 15 GB
Bandwidth: 3 TB
Port : 1 Gbps
IP4 : 1 Free | Plan | CPU | RAM | Storage | Bandwidth | Price |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| VPS 1 | 1 core | 512 MB | 15 GB | 0.5 TB | $7.77 |
| VPS 2 | 1 core | 1024 MB | 15 GB | 1 TB | $12.99 |
| VPS 3 | 1 core | 2048 MB | 15 GB | 2 TB | $23.99 |
| VPS 4 | 2 cores | 4096 MB | 15 GB | 3 TB | $40.99 |
Choosing the right plan
RAM matters more than CPU here. RouterOS keeps its routing table and connection tracking table in memory, so if you're carrying a full BGP table or running heavy NAT for a lot of concurrent users, 512 MB will feel tight fast, most people running a single VPN gateway or a small office router are fine on VPS 1 or 2. If you're doing BGP with more than a couple of peers, or NAT for a busy hotspot, jump to VPS 3 or 4.
Need more than 2 cores or 4 GB? Talk to support about a custom configuration.
From checkout to root in four steps
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01
Choose a plan
Match cores and RAM to your workload.
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02
Pay your way
Bitcoin, Ethereum, PayPal, or card.
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03
Get root, fast
Login details land in minutes.
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04
Configure and go
SSH, Winbox, or the API, your call.
What's watching your box while you're not
Everything RouterOS does, nothing held back
BGP · OSPF · static
Run a multi-homed edge, announce prefixes, steer traffic with route maps.
WireGuard · IPsec · OpenVPN
Plus L2TP and PPTP for legacy setups you haven't migrated yet.
Hotspot + RADIUS
Per-user vouchers, quotas, and billing without per-AP configuration.
Queue trees
Shape and prioritize bandwidth per user, subnet, or service.
IPv6 dual-stack
Every plan gets IPv4 + IPv6 side by side, no separate add-on.
Firewall · NAT
Full filter, mangle, and NAT chains, same syntax as the physical box.
Built for people who actually configure routers
Network engineers
Run it as a BGP edge router for a multi-homed connection, announce your prefixes, session with two upstreams, and steer without buying a second physical box.
ISPs & hospitality
Point a hotspot at RADIUS or UserManager and hand out vouchers per room, per table, or per session, no per-access-point setup.
MTCNA / MTCRE students
Spin up a lab, break things on purpose, snapshot the config, destroy it when you're done. Cheaper than a shelf of RouterBOARDs.
Remote teams & traders
A low-latency IPsec or WireGuard gateway between offices, or a dedicated exit point for latency-sensitive execution.
Deploy close to whoever you're routing for
Lower latency to your peers or clients usually means picking the region nearest them, not the one nearest you.
| Region | Code | Best for | Status |
|---|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | LON | Western Europe peers | online |
| United States | NYC | North American traffic | online |
| Canada | YYZ | North American failover | online |
| Singapore | SIN | Southeast Asia | online |
| India | BOM | South Asia | online |
| UAE | DXB | Middle East hub | online |
| Turkey | IST | Bridging EU/MENA | online |
Manage it by hand, or don't
RouterOS exposes a full API alongside the classic Winbox and SSH access, so if you're managing more than one box you're not doing it by hand. Define routing rules, firewall policies, and VPN setups as code with Ansible or Terraform.
Migrating a physical router over is a five-minute job: export the config, import it into the CHR instance, done. Migrations usually take longer to plan than to run.
# on the physical router /export file=router-backup # on the new CHR instance /import router-backup.rsc done, firewall, routes, and VPN peers carried over
Pay however suits you
Crypto clears fastest and skips the "why is a server company charging my card overseas" call to the bank.
Questions network engineers actually ask
What is MikroTik? +
MikroTik is a Latvian networking company founded in 1996. RouterOS, its routing operating system, has been the backbone of its hardware since 1997, and CHR brought that same software to virtual environments so it could run anywhere a VM can.
None functionally, CHR is the same RouterOS build, minus hardware-specific drivers for things like physical Wi-Fi radios. Firewall, routing, VPN, and queues behave identically.
What license comes with the base price, and how do I upgrade? +
Every plan ships with a free P1 license (1 Gbps cap). Upgrading to P10 or P-Unlimited is a self-service switch in the client panel.
Is IPv6 supported? +
Yes, every plan runs IPv4 and IPv6 side by side.
Can I migrate a config from my physical router? +
Export with /export on the old device, import the file on the new CHR instance. Firewall rules, routes, and VPN peers carry over.
Do you support BGP and OSPF? +
Yes, both are core RouterOS features and run unrestricted on any plan.
Is there a money-back guarantee? +
Yes, a 7-day money-back guarantee applies if you're not satisfied.
Is there a free MikroTik VPS? +
Every plan ships with a free P1 license (1 Gbps cap) at no extra cost, so you're not paying for licensing on top of the VPS. If you outgrow the 1 Gbps cap, upgrading to P10 or P-Unlimited takes a few minutes in the panel.
Is MikroTik VPS hosting affordable compared to physical hardware? +
Plans start at $7.77/month. A comparable rack-mount CCR typically costs $600+ upfront before setup, so a CHR instance usually pays for itself within the first year, and you can resize or cancel anytime.
A CHR instance isn't a replacement for every physical MikroTik out there, if you need real Wi-Fi radios or SFP ports, buy the hardware. But for routing, VPN, firewall, and hotspot work, it's the same RouterOS, live in minutes, and one resize away from more headroom whenever you need it. Looking for general-purpose hosting instead? See our full VPS plans.
Whether you're calling this a MikroTik CHR VPS, a virtual MikroTik server, or just RouterOS in the cloud, it's the same Cloud Hosted Router instance, with full root access, live in minutes.
24/7 support, from people who read routing tables
Setup help, config questions, or a 2 a.m. BGP session that won't come up, real answers, not a script.