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a1-standard-2-4 · 2 vCPU · 4 GB

Standard a1 · Arm64

Price

$22.57/mo

billed €19.37/mo

$0.0315/hour

$5.64 per GB RAM

Cheaper than 72% of tracked offers

Specs vs the whole index

RAM
4 GB> 16% of offers
vCPU
2 dedicated> 14% of offers
Disk
none included · volumes extra> 0% of offers
Bandwidth
Not published

Excl. VAT · priced at Tokyo, JP, the lowest-priced region for this flavor; other regions cost more · no included disk, boot volume billed separately · hourly billing

Value score

32/100

Percentile of RAM, vCPU, disk and bandwidth per dollar across the 522 tracked VPS plans. Higher = more machine for the money.

Regions · 1

  • Tokyo, JP

Data provenance

Gcore · Live web — VM flavor table in the gcore.com/pricing/cloud payload (EUR excl. VAT, lowest-priced region)

Fetched 10 Sept 2026

Prices exclude VAT. Always confirm on the provider's site.

Where this sits in the market

At $22.57/mo, a1-standard-2-4 · 2 vCPU · 4 GB is cheaper than 72% of the 522 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 4 GB of RAM at $5.64/GB — 4% above the $5.43/GB market median. Its value score of 32/100 ranks it #355 among VPS plans, and it is the 24th cheapest of Gcore's 90 tracked plans.

Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference

how we compute this →

Largest two per lineup that fit 4 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 2 dedicated vCPU.

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