Premium 16GB
Premium CPU
Price
$173/mo
$0.2595/hour
$10.81 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 14% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 16 GB> 51% of offers
- vCPU
- 8 dedicated> 74% of offers
- Disk
- 320 GB SSD> 80% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 6 TB/mo
Value score
26/100
Percentile of RAM, vCPU, disk and bandwidth per dollar across all 280 tracked offers. Higher = more machine for the money.
Regions · 22
- Washington, US
- Chicago, US
- Paris, FR
- Seattle, US
- Sao Paulo, BR
- Amsterdam, NL
- Stockholm, SE
- Madrid, ES
- Chennai, IN
- Osaka, JP
- Milan, IT
- Miami, US
- Jakarta, ID
- Los Angeles, US
- London 2, GB
- Melbourne, AU
- Mumbai 2, IN
- Frankfurt 2, DE
- Singapore 2, SG
- Tokyo 3, JP
- Washington 2, US
- Paris 2, FR
Data provenance
Linode · Public API — api.linode.com/v4/linode/types
Fetched 5 Sept 2026
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Where this sits in the market
At $173/mo, Premium 16GB is cheaper than 14% of the 280 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 16 GB of RAM at $10.81/GB — 80% above the $6/GB market median. Its value score of 26/100 ranks it #208 overall, and it is the 15th cheapest of Linode's 18 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.