Basic Regular 1C · 0.5 GB · 10 GB
Basic
Price
$4/mo
$0.0060/hour
$8 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 99% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 512 MB> 0% of offers
- vCPU
- 1 shared> 0% of offers
- Disk
- 10 GB SSD> 23% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 500 GB/mo
Value score
80/100
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 $4/mo, Basic Regular 1C · 0.5 GB · 10 GB is cheaper than 99% of the 280 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 512 MB of RAM at $8/GB — 33% above the $6/GB market median. Its value score of 80/100 ranks it #56 overall, and it is the 1st cheapest of DigitalOcean's 70 tracked plans.