Standard Server Plans¶
Our standard server configurations are generally available to all users on demand, as well as through a hardware reservation, or on the spot market.
Availability varies by location, customer demand, and data center capacity, especially for on demand and spot market servers. You can check current capacity and inventory levels on our Capacity Dashboard. Other ways of checking can be found on the Inventory and Capacity documentation page.
Pricing and availability is published on the Servers Product page. Rates vary between on-demand, reserved hardware, the spot market, and location.
Current Standard Server Plans¶
Note - On-demand provisions may have a different CPU than stated in the plan configuration. You are guaranteed a server that has a CPU with the stated specification or better.
m3.small.x86¶
- Plan Slug:
m3.small.x86 - Configuration and Pricing
- From the API:
curl -X GET -H 'X-Auth-Token: $API_TOKEN' \ https://api.equinix.com/metal/v1/plans?include=specs,pricing,available_in_metros \ | jq '.plans[] | select(.slug=="m3.small.x86")'
c3.medium.x86¶
- Plan Slug:
c3.medium.x86 - Configuration and Pricing
- From the API:
curl -X GET -H 'X-Auth-Token: $API_TOKEN' \ https://api.equinix.com/metal/v1/plans?include=specs,pricing,available_in_metros \ | jq '.plans[] | select(.slug=="c3.medium.x86")'
a3.large.x86¶
- Plan Slug:
a3.large.x86 - Configuration and Pricing
- From the API:
curl -X GET -H 'X-Auth-Token: $API_TOKEN' \ https://api.equinix.com/metal/v1/plans?include=specs,pricing,available_in_metros \ | jq '.plans[] | select(.slug=="a3.large.x86")'
m3.large.x86¶
- Plan Slug:
m3.large.x86 - Configuration and Pricing
- From the API:
curl -X GET -H 'X-Auth-Token: $API_TOKEN' \ https://api.equinix.com/metal/v1/plans?include=specs,pricing,available_in_metros \ | jq '.plans[] | select(.slug=="m3.large.x86")'
n3.xlarge.x86¶
- Plan Slug:
n3.xlarge.x86 - Configuration and Pricing
- From the API:
curl -X GET -H 'X-Auth-Token: $API_TOKEN' \ https://api.equinix.com/metal/v1/plans?include=specs,pricing,available_in_metros \ | jq '.plans[] | select(.slug=="n3.xlarge.x86")'
s3.xlarge.x86¶
- Plan Slug:
s3.xlarge.x86 - Configuration and Pricing
- From the API:
curl -X GET -H 'X-Auth-Token: $API_TOKEN' \ https://api.equinix.com/metal/v1/plans?include=specs,pricing,available_in_metros \ | jq '.plans[] | select(.slug=="s3.xlarge.x86")'
Operating System Compatibility¶
Equinix Metal offers and maintains operating system images that are tailored to support our server plans and network configurations. Which operating systems are available on a server plan is listed on its product page and on the OS Compatibility page.
More information on the operating systems we offer and bringing your own operating system is available in the Operating Systems section.
General Standard Server Plan Information¶
When you go to deploy a server, the console will filter your server plan options based on availability for the Metro you choose.
Note that if you don't see a standard server plan in a Metro, and you are interested in using a specific server for the long-term (1-3 years), you can guarantee availability with Reserved Hardware.
You can see all server plans available to you with the metal plan get command.
metal plan get
You can see a list of standard server plans available to you by sending a GET request to the /plans endpoint, filtering the results by appending ?type=standard to the path.
curl -X GET -H 'X-Auth-Token: $API_TOKEN' https://api.equinix.com/metal/v1/plans?type=standard
Similarly if you are looking to see what standard server plans are available to a specific organization, you send a GET request to the projects/{id}/plans endpoint.
curl -X GET -H 'X-Auth-Token: $API_TOKEN' https://api.equinix.com/metal/v1/projects/{id}/plans?type=standard
And for standard server plans available to a specific project, send a GET request to the /organizations/{id}/plans endpoint.
curl -X GET -H 'X-Auth-Token: $API_TOKEN' https://api.equinix.com/metal/v1/organizations/{id}/plans?type=standard