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Basic Premium AMD 4C · 16 GB · 200 GB

Basic

Price

$84/mo

$0.1250/hour

$5.25 per GB RAM

Cheaper than 43% of tracked offers

Specs vs the whole index

RAM
16 GB> 51% of offers
vCPU
4 shared> 42% of offers
Disk
200 GB NVME> 70% of offers
Bandwidth
8 TB/mo

Value score

51/100

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 $84/mo, Basic Premium AMD 4C · 16 GB · 200 GB is cheaper than 43% of the 280 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 16 GB of RAM at $5.25/GB — 13% below the $6/GB market median. Its value score of 51/100 ranks it #137 overall, and it is the 31st 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 16 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 4 shared vCPU.

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