a1-standard-8-16 · 8 vCPU · 16 GB
Standard a1 · Arm64
Price
$90.27/mo
billed €77.47/mo
$0.1235/hour
$5.64 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 35% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 16 GB> 53% of offers
- vCPU
- 8 dedicated> 71% 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
29/100
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 $90.27/mo, a1-standard-8-16 · 8 vCPU · 16 GB is cheaper than 35% of the 522 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 16 GB of RAM at $5.64/GB — 4% above the $5.43/GB market median. Its value score of 29/100 ranks it #371 among VPS plans, and it is the 62nd cheapest of Gcore's 90 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen3 14B~3.2–6.4 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B~3.2–6.4 tok/s
- Phi-4 14B~3.2–6.5 tok/s
- Mistral Nemo 12B~3.9–7.8 tok/s
- Gemma 3 12B~3.9–7.8 tok/s
- Qwen3 8B~5.8–12 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B~5.8–12 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B~5.9–12 tok/s
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 8 dedicated vCPU.