How much does Civo CPU Optimized Small cost?

$128 a month excl. VAT, which is $8 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Civo's own site.

What do you get with Civo CPU Optimized Small?

8 shared vCPU, 16 GB of RAM, 60 GB NVMe of disk and unmetered traffic.

Where does Civo CPU Optimized Small run?

In 5 locations: London, GB, Frankfurt, DE, New York, US, Phoenix, US, Mumbai, IN.

How does Civo CPU Optimized Small compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 23% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 52% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 18/100 on hardware per dollar, #312 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

Civo CPU Optimized Small.

Prices checked 31 Oct

Civo CPU Optimized Small costs $128 a month for 8 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and 60 GB NVMe, cheaper than 23% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

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Price

Civo

$128/mo

$8 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 23% of the 527 plans we track.

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Value

18/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #312 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

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Compare withvs Gcore g1-highfreq-8-16 vs Scaleway POP2-HC-6C-12G or any plan

What you get

RAM: 16 GBmore than 51% of plans
vCPU: 8 sharedmore than 70% of plans
Disk: 60 GB NVMemore than 45% of plans
Traffic: Unmetered

5 locations

Same price in every region · egress free and unlimited · hourly billing

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How it scores

Value 18/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.26 points for each dollar, against a typical 0.44 across the 527 plans we track.

RAM, 16 GB: 16.0
vCPU, 8: 12.0
Disk, 60 GB NVMe: 2.4
Traffic, unmetered, counted as 10 TB: 3.0
33.4 points for $128: 0.26 a dollar

1 point per GB of RAM, 1.5 per vCPU, 1 per 25 GB of disk up to 500 GB (SSD × 0.8, HDD × 0.4), and 0.3 per TB of traffic up to 20 TB.

Or a whole server

At 16 GB a dedicated server is worth a look: the cores, disks and port are all yours, not shared. One with 8 to 15 cores starts at $65 a month over the first year, setup fee included. 119 servers from 6 providers. every server with 8 to 15 cores

Models it can run

The largest two per family that fit 16 GB with room to spare, on its 8 shared vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Qwen3 14B, about 2.1–4.3 tok/s DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B, about 2.1–4.3 tok/s Phi-4 14B, about 2.2–4.3 tok/s Mistral Nemo 12B, about 2.6–5.2 tok/s Gemma 3 12B, about 2.6–5.2 tok/s Qwen3 8B, about 3.9–7.7 tok/s DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B, about 3.9–7.7 tok/s Llama 3.1 8B, about 3.9–7.9 tok/s

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Frequently asked

How much does Civo CPU Optimized Small cost?: $128 a month excl. VAT, which is $8 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on Civo's own site.
What do you get with Civo CPU Optimized Small?: 8 shared vCPU, 16 GB of RAM, 60 GB NVMe of disk and unmetered traffic.
Where does Civo CPU Optimized Small run?: In 5 locations: London, GB, Frankfurt, DE, New York, US, Phoenix, US, Mumbai, IN.
How does Civo CPU Optimized Small compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 23% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 52% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 18/100 on hardware per dollar, #312 of the 374 plans that include a disk.