Optimized Cloud 1C · 8 GB
Optimized Cloud
Price
$40/mo
$0.0550/hour
$5 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 68% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 8 GB> 26% of offers
- vCPU
- 1 dedicated> 0% of offers
- Disk
- 50 GB NVME> 33% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 5.1 TB/mo
Deployable regions vary by plan; list shows all Vultr locations
Value score
42/100
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 $40/mo, Optimized Cloud 1C · 8 GB is cheaper than 68% of the 280 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 8 GB of RAM at $5/GB — 17% below the $6/GB market median. Its value score of 42/100 ranks it #164 overall, and it is the 22nd cheapest of Vultr's 66 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen2.5-Coder 7B~0.8–1.6 tok/s
- Gemma 3 4B~1.4–2.8 tok/s
- Qwen3 4B~1.5–3 tok/s
- Phi-4-mini 3.8B~1.5–3.1 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 3B~1.8–3.7 tok/s
- Llama 3.2 1B~4.8–9.6 tok/s
- Gemma 3 1B~5.9–12 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 1 dedicated vCPU.