Basic Premium AMD 8C · 32 GB · 400 GB
Basic
Price
$168/mo
$0.2500/hour
$5.25 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 15% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 32 GB> 82% of offers
- vCPU
- 8 shared> 74% of offers
- Disk
- 400 GB NVME> 87% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 10 TB/mo
Value score
49/100
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 $168/mo, Basic Premium AMD 8C · 32 GB · 400 GB is cheaper than 15% of the 280 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 32 GB of RAM at $5.25/GB — 13% below the $6/GB market median. Its value score of 49/100 ranks it #144 overall, and it is the 58th cheapest of DigitalOcean's 70 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen3 32B~1–1.9 tok/s
- Qwen2.5-Coder 32B~1–1.9 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 32B~1–1.9 tok/s
- Gemma 3 27B~1.2–2.3 tok/s
- Mistral Small 3.2 24B~1.3–2.6 tok/s
- Devstral Small 24B~1.3–2.7 tok/s
- gpt-oss-20b (MoE)~4.4–8.7 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B~2.1–4.3 tok/s
Largest two per lineup that fit 32 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 8 shared vCPU.