Get colocation quotes
Colocation means you rent space, power and cooling for your own servers in a data center run by someone else. Fill in the space, the power and the city one time, and as many as three colocation providers or brokers will email you their prices directly.
We cover 1,086 colocation buildings in 48 cities, and up to three providers or brokers reply to each request.
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After you send it
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Let us know how much space and power you need, plus the city you want.
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No more than three providers or brokers with space in that city get your request.
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Their prices go straight to you by email. Asking costs nothing.
Rack prices by size
You rent space rack by rack, and power comes bundled with every package, up to a point. What follows are the published list prices for the packages the price tool starts with.
| Package | Rack space | Published monthly rate | Power bundled in |
|---|---|---|---|
| Up to 4 servers | 1U to 4U | $69–$199 | approx. 0.24 kW |
| Quarter rack | about 10U | $330–$399 | approx. 0.6 kW |
| Half rack | about 21U | $530–$699 | approx. 1.2 kW |
| Full rack | 42U | $930–$999 | approx. 2.4 kW |
A U (rack unit) is 1.75 inches of rack height.
Extra power costs more. CBRE, a commercial property firm, puts market rent at $155 to $275 per kW a month across the 16 areas it tracks. A kW (kilowatt) is a unit of electric power.
That works out to roughly $1,420 to $2,790 monthly for a full rack pulling 5 to 10 kW in Northern Virginia, or roughly $1,350 to $2,410 around Dallas-Fort Worth.
This form does not show a price on screen. It gets you quotes from providers by email. For a quick monthly estimate first, try our price tool, which asks three questions: how much space, how much power and which city.
Prices are listed in US dollars as Sectorlink and Colocation America publish them. Setup, cross connects and extra power cost extra.
When a request for proposal helps
RFP stands for request for proposal. It's a written account of what you need, sent to a handful of providers so they all bid on exactly the same thing. If you only need one or two racks, the quote form covers that job already, since every provider gets the same details.
Compare quotes only when each one covers the same things:
- Space (the footprint you rent)
- Committed power (the power you reserve)
- Backup power and cooling (redundancy)
- Cross connects: the cables that join your gear to a network or another firm in the building
- Bandwidth
- Remote hands: on-site staff who handle small tasks on your servers
- Contract length
- Fees, such as setup charges
How long you sign for changes the price as well. Three-year terms are the usual choice and come in cheaper than one-year deals, and you'll often get a discount for taking 10 or more cabinets or committing to 3 years or more.
What a broker does for you
A broker pulls prices from several providers on your behalf, saving you from writing to each one yourself. That's worth something, because lining up several providers gives you real leverage when the time comes to settle on a price.
We send your request to up to three colocation providers or data center brokers with space in your city, who email you prices directly. Asking is free for you, though providers, brokers and disposal companies sometimes pay this site a referral fee.