How much does DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 8C cost?

$168 a month excl. VAT, which is $10.50 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on DigitalOcean's own site.

What do you get with DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 8C?

8 dedicated vCPU, 16 GB of RAM, 100 GB SSD of disk and 6 TB of traffic a month.

Where does DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 8C run?

In 10 locations: New York City, US, San Francisco, US, Amsterdam, NL, Singapore, SG, London, GB, Frankfurt, DE, Toronto, CA, Bangalore, IN, and more.

How does DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 8C compare with other VPS plans?

It is cheaper than 12% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 100% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 6/100 on hardware per dollar, #355 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 8C.

Prices checked 31 Oct

DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 8C costs $168 a month for 8 vCPU, 16 GB of RAM and 100 GB SSD, cheaper than 12% of the 527 VPS plans we track, checked 31 Oct.

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Price

DigitalOcean

$168/mo

$10.50 per GB of RAM a month

Cheaper than 12% of the 527 plans we track.

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Value

6/100

hardware per dollar

It ranks #355 of the 374 plans that include a disk.

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What you get

RAM: 16 GBmore than 51% of plans
vCPU: 8 dedicatedmore than 70% of plans
Disk: 100 GB SSDmore than 55% of plans
Traffic: 6 TB a month

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How it scores

Value 6/100 is hardware per dollar: 0.20 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, 100 GB SSD: 3.2
Traffic, 6 TB: 1.8
33.0 points for $168: 0.20 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 dedicated vCPU at 4-bit. How we work this out

Qwen3 14B, about 3.2–6.4 tok/s DeepSeek-R1 Distill Qwen 14B, about 3.2–6.4 tok/s Phi-4 14B, about 3.2–6.5 tok/s Mistral Nemo 12B, about 3.9–7.8 tok/s Gemma 3 12B, about 3.9–7.8 tok/s Qwen3 8B, about 5.8–12 tok/s DeepSeek-R1-0528 Qwen3 8B, about 5.8–12 tok/s Llama 3.1 8B, about 5.9–12 tok/s

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Frequently asked

How much does DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 8C cost?: $168 a month excl. VAT, which is $10.50 for each GB of RAM. Checked 31 Oct 2026 on DigitalOcean's own site.
What do you get with DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 8C?: 8 dedicated vCPU, 16 GB of RAM, 100 GB SSD of disk and 6 TB of traffic a month.
Where does DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 8C run?: In 10 locations: New York City, US, San Francisco, US, Amsterdam, NL, Singapore, SG, London, GB, Frankfurt, DE, Toronto, CA, Bangalore, IN, and more.
How does DigitalOcean CPU-Optimized 8C compare with other VPS plans?: It is cheaper than 12% of the 527 plans we track, and a GB of RAM costs 100% more than the $5.25 typical across them. It scores Value 6/100 on hardware per dollar, #355 of the 374 plans that include a disk.