CivoRAM Optimized Small · 2 vCPU · 16 GB
RAM Optimized compute
Civo RAM Optimized Small costs $78.21/mo for 2 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and 60 GB NVMe, cheaper than 40% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$78.21/mo
$0.1071/hour
$4.89 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 40% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 16 GB> 53% of offers
- vCPU
- 2 shared> 14% of offers
- Disk
- 60 GB NVMe> 45% of offers
- Bandwidth
- Unmetered
Same price in every region · egress free and unlimited · hourly billing
Value score
28/100
- RAM · 16 GB
- 16.0
- vCPU · 2
- 3.0
- Disk · 60 GB NVMe
- 2.4
- Traffic · unmetered, as 10 TB
- 3.0
- 24.4 points ÷ $78.21
- 0.31 per $
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.
The score ranks 0.31 points per dollar against the 524 tracked VPS plans, whose median is 0.43. A higher score means more machine for the money.
Data provenance
Civo · Live web · compute instance tables on civo.com/pricing (USD, all regions)
Fetched 16 Sept 2026
Prices exclude VAT. Always confirm on the provider's site.
Where this sits in the market
At $78.21/mo, RAM Optimized Small · 2 vCPU · 16 GB is cheaper than 40% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 16 GB of RAM at $4.89/GB, 10% below the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 28/100 ranks it #285 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 5th cheapest of Civo's 11 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →- Qwen3 14B~0.5–1.1 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B~0.5–1.1 tok/s
- Phi-4 14B~0.5–1.1 tok/s
- Mistral Nemo 12B~0.6–1.3 tok/s
- Gemma 3 12B~0.6–1.3 tok/s
- Qwen3 8B~1–1.9 tok/s
- DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B~1–1.9 tok/s
- Llama 3.1 8B~1–2 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 2 shared vCPU.
