Basic Premium Intel 2C · 8 GB · 160 GB
Basic
Price
$48/mo
$0.0714/hour
$6 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 59% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 8 GB> 26% of offers
- vCPU
- 2 shared> 10% of offers
- Disk
- 160 GB NVME> 62% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 5 TB/mo
Value score
55/100
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 $48/mo, Basic Premium Intel 2C · 8 GB · 160 GB is cheaper than 59% of the 280 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 8 GB of RAM at $6/GB — 0% below the $6/GB market median. Its value score of 55/100 ranks it #127 overall, and it is the 22nd cheapest of DigitalOcean's 70 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen2.5-Coder 7B~1–2.1 tok/s
- Gemma 3 4B~1.8–3.7 tok/s
- Qwen3 4B~2–3.9 tok/s
- Phi-4-mini 3.8B~2.1–4.1 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 3B~2.5–4.9 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 1B~6.4–13 tok/s
- Gemma 3 1B~7.9–16 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 2 shared vCPU.