General Purpose Premium Intel 4C · 16 GB · 120 GB
General Purpose
Price
$158/mo
$0.2351/hour
$9.88 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 19% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 16 GB> 51% of offers
- vCPU
- 4 dedicated> 42% of offers
- Disk
- 120 GB NVME> 57% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 5 TB/mo
Value score
6/100
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 $158/mo, General Purpose Premium Intel 4C · 16 GB · 120 GB is cheaper than 19% of the 280 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 16 GB of RAM at $9.88/GB — 65% above the $6/GB market median. Its value score of 6/100 ranks it #264 overall, and it is the 55th cheapest of DigitalOcean's 70 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen3 14B~1.6–3.2 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B~1.6–3.2 tok/s
- Phi-4 14B~1.6–3.2 tok/s
- Mistral Nemo 12B~1.9–3.9 tok/s
- Gemma 3 12B~1.9–3.9 tok/s
- Qwen3 8B~2.9–5.8 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B~2.9–5.8 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B~3–5.9 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 4 dedicated vCPU.