CPU-Optimized Premium Intel 4C · 8 GB · 100 GB
CPU-Optimized
Price
$122/mo
$0.1816/hour
$15.25 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 30% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 8 GB> 26% of offers
- vCPU
- 4 dedicated> 42% of offers
- Disk
- 100 GB NVME> 52% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 5 TB/mo
Value score
2/100
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 $122/mo, CPU-Optimized Premium Intel 4C · 8 GB · 100 GB is cheaper than 30% of the 280 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 8 GB of RAM at $15.25/GB — 154% above the $6/GB market median. Its value score of 2/100 ranks it #275 overall, and it is the 45th cheapest of DigitalOcean's 70 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen2.5-Coder 7B~3.1–6.2 tok/s
- Gemma 3 4B~5.5–11 tok/s
- Qwen3 4B~5.9–12 tok/s
- Phi-4-mini 3.8B~6.2–12 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 3B~7.4–15 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 1B~19–38 tok/s
- Gemma 3 1B~24–48 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 8 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 4 dedicated vCPU.