Optimized Cloud 8C · 16 GB
Optimized Cloud
Price
$180/mo
$0.2470/hour
$11.25 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 13% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 16 GB> 51% of offers
- vCPU
- 8 dedicated> 74% of offers
- Disk
- 300 GB NVME> 76% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 7.2 TB/mo
Deployable regions vary by plan; list shows all Vultr locations
Value score
22/100
Percentile of RAM, vCPU, disk and bandwidth per dollar across all 280 tracked offers. Higher = more machine for the money.
Regions · 33
- Amsterdam, NL
- Atlanta, US
- Bangalore, IN
- Mumbai, IN
- Paris, FR
- Delhi NCR, IN
- Dallas, US
- New Jersey, US
- Frankfurt, DE
- Honolulu, US
- Seoul, KR
- Osaka, JP
- Johannesburg, ZA
- Los Angeles, US
- London, GB
- Madrid, ES
- Manchester, GB
- Melbourne, AU
- Mexico City, MX
- Miami, US
- Milan, IT
- Tokyo, JP
- Chicago, US
- São Paulo, BR
- Santiago, CL
- Seattle, US
- Singapore, SG
- Silicon Valley, US
- Stockholm, SE
- Sydney, AU
- Tel Aviv, IL
- Warsaw, PL
- Toronto, CA
Data provenance
Vultr · Public API — api.vultr.com/v2/plans
Fetched 5 Sept 2026
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Where this sits in the market
At $180/mo, Optimized Cloud 8C · 16 GB is cheaper than 13% of the 280 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 16 GB of RAM at $11.25/GB — 87% above the $6/GB market median. Its value score of 22/100 ranks it #218 overall, and it is the 59th cheapest of Vultr's 66 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.