a1-standard-2-8 · 2 vCPU · 8 GB
Standard a1 · Arm64
Price
$30.82/mo
billed €26.45/mo
$0.0419/hour
$3.85 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 66% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 8 GB> 30% 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
40/100
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 $30.82/mo, a1-standard-2-8 · 2 vCPU · 8 GB is cheaper than 66% of the 522 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 8 GB of RAM at $3.85/GB — 29% below the $5.43/GB market median. Its value score of 40/100 ranks it #312 among VPS plans, and it is the 29th cheapest of Gcore's 90 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen2.5-Coder 7B~1.6–3.1 tok/s
- Gemma 3 4B~2.8–5.5 tok/s
- Qwen3 4B~3–5.9 tok/s
- Phi-4-mini 3.8B~3.1–6.2 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 3B~3.7–7.4 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 1B~9.6–19 tok/s
- Gemma 3 1B~12–24 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 dedicated vCPU.