DigitalOceanCPU-Optimized 2C · 4 GB · 25 GB
CPU-Optimized
DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 2C costs $42/mo for 2 vCPU, 4 GB of RAM and 25 GB SSD, cheaper than 58% of the 524 VPS plans we track, checked 16 Sept 2026.
Price
$42/mo
$0.0625/hour
$10.50 per GB RAM
Cheaper than 58% of tracked offers
Specs vs the whole index
- RAM
- 4 GB> 16% of offers
- vCPU
- 2 dedicated> 14% of offers
- Disk
- 25 GB SSD> 32% of offers
- Bandwidth
- 4 TB/mo
Value score
11/100
- RAM · 4 GB
- 4.0
- vCPU · 2
- 3.0
- Disk · 25 GB SSD
- 0.8
- Traffic · 4 TB
- 1.2
- 9.0 points ÷ $42
- 0.21 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 0.21 points per dollar against the 524 tracked VPS plans, whose median is 0.43. A higher score means more machine for the money.
Regions · 10
Data provenance
DigitalOcean · Public pricing page · digitalocean.com/pricing/droplets (embedded plan JSON)
Fetched 16 Sept 2026
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Where this sits in the market
At $42/mo, CPU-Optimized 2C · 4 GB · 25 GB is cheaper than 58% of the 524 VPS plans in our index. It delivers 4 GB of RAM at $10.50/GB, 94% above the $5.42/GB market median. Its value score of 11/100 ranks it #336 among VPS plans that include a disk, and it is the 19th cheapest of DigitalOcean's 70 tracked plans.
Open models this box runs comfortably · CPU inference
how we compute this →Largest two per lineup that fit 4 GB with 20% headroom at Q4_K_M and an 8K context; speeds are bandwidth-bound estimates for 2 dedicated vCPU.
