CPU-Optimized Premium Intel 8C · 16 GB · 100 GB
CPU-Optimized
Price
$218/mo
$0.3244/hour
$13.63 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 6% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 16 GB> 51% of offers
- vCPU
- 8 dedicated> 74% of offers
- Disk
- 100 GB NVME> 52% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 6 TB/mo
Value score
1/100
Percentile of RAM, vCPU, disk and bandwidth per dollar across all 280 tracked offers. Higher = more machine for the money.
Regions · 10
- New York City, US
- San Francisco, US
- Amsterdam, NL
- Singapore, SG
- London, GB
- Frankfurt, DE
- Toronto, CA
- Bangalore, IN
- Sydney, AU
- Atlanta, US
Data provenance
DigitalOcean · Public pricing page — digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets (embedded plan JSON)
Fetched 5 Sept 2026
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Where this sits in the market
At $218/mo, CPU-Optimized Premium Intel 8C · 16 GB · 100 GB is cheaper than 6% of the 280 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 16 GB of RAM at $13.63/GB — 127% above the $6/GB market median. Its value score of 1/100 ranks it #278 overall, and it is the 67th cheapest of DigitalOcean's 70 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen3 14B~3.2–6.4 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B~3.2–6.4 tok/s
- Phi-4 14B~3.2–6.5 tok/s
- Mistral Nemo 12B~3.9–7.8 tok/s
- Gemma 3 12B~3.9–7.8 tok/s
- Qwen3 8B~5.8–12 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B~5.8–12 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B~5.9–12 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 16 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 8 dedicated vCPU.