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CPU-Optimized 2C · 4 GB · 50 GB

CPU-Optimized

Price

$47/mo

$0.0699/hour

$11.75 per GB RAM

Cheaper than 62% of tracked offers

Specs vs the whole index

RAM
4 GB> 14% of offers
vCPU
2 dedicated> 10% of offers
Disk
50 GB SSD> 33% of offers
Bandwidth
4 TB/mo

Value score

17/100

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 $47/mo, CPU-Optimized 2C · 4 GB · 50 GB is cheaper than 62% of the 280 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 4 GB of RAM at $11.75/GB — 96% above the $6/GB market median. Its value score of 17/100 ranks it #232 overall, and it is the 20th cheapest of DigitalOcean's 70 tracked plans.

Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference

how we compute this →

Largest two per lineup that fit 4 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 2 dedicated vCPU.

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